Bonjour et bienvenue! The 2025 Tour de France begins Saturday in Lille. If you want to about read the rhythms of the sport, ...

In yesterday’s story, How To Watch Cycling, I wrote offhand that the Tour de France was “poker on two wheels.” That poker ...

The vote looked like a funeral. Residents showed up to the council meeting dressed in black, carrying prop tombstones. One ...

That Joan Didion line, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” is ubiquitous because like so much of her work, it gets ...

It is probably enough to note that this week’s episode of The Distraction, which was recorded last week, is A Vacation Episode. Regular listeners have encountered these before, and even those readers ...

F1: The Movie is not a good sports movie, but it also doesn’t try very hard to be. Instead, it is a superhero flick dressed ...

Eight hours per day, we’re not allowed to do more,” FIA World Rally Championship safety delegate Nicolas Klinger jokes.

This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference ...

So after all that windmill-tilting, the New York Knicks are about to spear Mike Brown as their new head coach, and there will ...

The history of mainstream filmmaking is prone to whiggish readings. The story is that Hollywood, an industry of entertainment ...

Defector’s growth committee is hard at work preparing for all-company meetings in August, where we’ll set strategy for Year 6 and beyond. Our biennial reader survey is probably the most important ...