The first time I visited France, I was on the subway when a woman and a group of elementary school–aged girls rushed into the ...

In a third-grade classroom exercise, Patrick Kelly wrote that he wanted to become a scientist when he grew up. With that ...

Twenty-eight NBA teams lay crumpled and destroyed at the foot of the mountain, defeated for all time, never to rise again from their shame. The Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers snarl at each ...

After Viktor Arvidsson’s slapshot beat Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky in the second period, cutting the Oilers’ deficit to ...

It’s not about throwing a punch. We know both these teams can land a haymaker. No team gets this far without that skill, even if each comes at it from a slightly different angle—the Oilers, more ...

Without Paige Bueckers, the Dallas Wings look like what they were last year, when they were also without Paige Bueckers, ...

Members of the Defector staff often send each other animal photos and videos. Some are cute, or doing funny things; others ...

Welcome back to Make It Nice, Defector’s best design advice column. Everyone’s saying this! Here are this month’s dilemmas: ...

For the second straight year, the Florida Panthers are playing the Edmonton Oilers for the Stanley Cup. I’m not convinced that we can see their futures by looking at their pasts, but I think it’s ...

You, the savvy baseball fan, are almost certainly wise to imagine what Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes will look like someday wearing some other team’s uniform. If you are a fan of one of six ...

It probably does not matter who occupies the position of hitting coach for the Colorado Rockies. For the previous three ...

This week’s story presents us all with a bouquet of ethical questions. How much unpaid labor would you take on for a dear friend? Nude yoga in the yard: Yea or nay? Under what circumstances can you ...