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Happy Wings Week! Come discuss ‘H Is For Hawk’ with us: defector.com/let-loose-th...

Let Loose The Jesses And Come Discuss 'H Is For Hawk' With Us | Defectordefector.com Maitreyi Anantharaman: Happy Wings Week, everyone! I will admit to not knowing much about this book before I scooped it up at the library and had fun with this moving—at times extremely funny!—mix of ...

If no wings I see, a dragon it not be: defector.com/if-no-wings-...

If No Wings I See, A Dragon It Not Be | Defectordefector.com Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking about th...

"Vingegaard crossed the finish line more than one minute after Tadej Pogačar had finished celebrating. It was as if he'd put up an 90-point game on the same day Wilt Chamberlain had 100." defector.com/time-is-runn...

Time Is Running Out To Clip Tadej Pogačar's Wings | Defectordefector.com Jonas Vingegaard’s Visma team spent Sunday charging through the infernal heat in a demanding Stage 15 of the Tour de France, and he rewarded their hard work by smashing Marco Pantani’s 26-year-old cli...

‘Longlegs’ can't quite carry the weight of expectations: defector.com/longlegs-can...

'Longlegs' Can't Quite Carry The Weight Of Expectations | Defectordefector.com The marketing departments of film studios have no obligation to the truth, merely the hype machine. Depending on what element of a film is being sold, the marketing can be telling one of two lies. The...

Celtics wing kisses ring after dissing King's offspring: defector.com/celtics-wing...

Celtics Wing Kisses Ring After Dissing King's Offspring | Defectordefector.com Jaylen Brown, sitting at the Celtics-Lakers Summer League game Monday night in Las Vegas, appeared to let slip a candid player evaluation while talking to WNBA player Kysre Gondrezick. “I don’t think ...

Wings are what you order when you're out of self-respect: defector.com/wings-are-wh...

Wings Are What You Order When You're Out Of Self-Respect | Defectordefector.com It did not take very long into Wings Week for someone in the slag cave to posit the question to the other members of the shift, “What kind of wings are best?” and offered the choices as boneless, flat...

Flats vs. drums vs. boneless: The Great Wing Debate defector.com/flats-vs-dru...

Flats Vs. Drums Vs. Boneless: The Great Wing Debate | Defectordefector.com It’s Wings Week, so Defector staffers were asked to declare their loyalties in the competitive field of chicken wings. Flats If you want to know a lifehack, it’s that eating chicken wings with chopsti...

Baseballs fly in Arlington, almost as if they had wings: defector.com/baseballs-fl...

Baseballs Fly In Arlington, Almost As If They Had Wings | Defectordefector.com At MLB’s annual home run derby on Monday night, a group of very talented baseball players gathered to smash softly tossed pitches as hard and as far as they could. For the seasoned fan, there was noth...

I drank every flavor of Red Bull in a row to see if it would give me wings: defector.com/i-drank-ever...

I Drank Every Flavor Of Red Bull In A Row To See If It Would Give Me Wings | Defectordefector.com At 7:43 a.m. I crack open a can of Red Bull, original flavor. The O.G. Ol’ faithful. Big red. Lil’, uh, canny. Despite being by a significant margin the most popular energy drink in the United States ...

Carlos Alcaraz is eating well at the big table: defector.com/carlos-alcar...

Carlos Alcaraz Is Eating Well At The Big Table | Defectordefector.com How quickly we've arrived at this new juncture, where there isn't much else for Carlos Alcaraz to learn from other people, where he is writing the futures of tennis by himself, expanding its possibili...

When did basketball get wings? defector.com/when-did-bas...

When Did Basketball Get Wings? | Defectordefector.com One of my favorite things about basketball is the wide variety of positional descriptors that it provides. Anyone who finds themselves bored or under-informed by the standard positions can always reac...

Wild Wing keeps the Ducks mighty: defector.com/wild-wing-ke...

Wild Wing Keeps The Ducks Mighty | Defectordefector.com There has never been a more cowardly logo in the NHL than the Anaheim Ducks’ webbed-foot D, as seen modeled here by Mason McTavish and Trevor Zegras: The person who designed this logo is a quack, so t...

Philly has a hero named Boots: defector.com/philly-has-a...

Philly Has A Hero Named Boots | Defectordefector.com I was sitting in a cool dark booth at Moriarty’s Bar with Dave McKenna and his two teenage sons eating chicken wings when one of the TVs flashed something about Trump being pulled off stage at his ral...

The Crossword, July 15: False Wingers defector.com/the-crosswor...

The Crossword, July 15: False Wingers | Defectordefector.com Happy Wings Week! This week’s puzzle was constructed by Hoang-Kim Vu. Kim works in global public health in Washington, D.C., and is a member of the crossword editing team at Defector and AVCX. His puz...

An interview with the biggest Washington Nationals prospect sicko any of us know: defector.com/an-interview...

An Interview With The Biggest Washington Nationals Prospect Sicko Any Of Us Know | Defectordefector.com When I first heard about Wings Week, my brain immediately shouted Red Wings. When anybody thinks about Red Wings, their mind of course flies to Rochester, N.Y., where the Rochester Red Wings play Trip...

All hail the winged wheel of Detroit: defector.com/all-hail-the...

All Hail The Winged Wheel Of Detroit | Defectordefector.com Whatever else you may learn this week is secondary at best to this central truth. This is why we thought this was a good idea. I mean, look at how we decided to delineate this week. Several ideas were...

Today is the start of Wings Week on Defector! defector.com/its-wings-week

It's Wings Week | Defectordefector.com You idiots. You fools. You thought we were done doing inscrutable theme weeks? You really thought that? You took the mere fact that we didn’t subject you to a week’s worth of inessential posts related...

Spain was unstoppable to the very end: defector.com/spain-was-un...

Spain Was Unstoppable To The Very Enddefector.com Spain could have buckled. The three-time European champions wouldn’t have been the first, second, or third to capitulate to an England comeback at this tournament; Slovakia, Switzerland, and the Nethe...

‘Illinoise’ carries the spirit that makes Sufjan Stevens special: defector.com/illinoise-ca...

'Illinoise' Carries The Spirit That Makes Sufjan Stevens Special | Defectordefector.com The singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens has gifted us with a steady stream of new releases ever since he released his debut album back in 2000. But even as he’s stayed professionally active, and stream s...

The winner of ‘The Mole’ broke the game: defector.com/the-winner-o...

The Winner Of 'The Mole' Broke The Gamedefector.com I’ve loved The Mole since I was a teenager. I love trying to out-smart entertainment and figure out what a show (or game, or movie, or whatever) is trying to hide from me, and since the 2001 debut of ...

The White Sox can be eliminated on August 9, and other All-Star Break truths: defector.com/the-white-so...

The White Sox Can Be Eliminated On August 9 And Other All-Star Break Truths | Defectordefector.com This, from Mike Petriello of MLB.com is not really news, though it is a curiosity: The season started earlier, at least for the Padres and Dodgers, and the All-Star Game hasn’t been played this late s...

This is NOT a damn bell!! defector.com/this-is-not-...

This Is NOT A Damn Bell!! | Defectordefector.com This morning, after a long and boring wait, I was finally allowed to visit Philadelphia’s new bell. It’s not that new of a bell, really. In 1976, on America’s 200th birthday, Queen Elizabeth II visite...

Another Garden Check! defector.com/another-gard...

Another Garden Check! | Defectordefector.com It’s crazy-hot here, and so humid the air feels like walking through linen curtains. You breathe by slurping. And yet there has been no rain! As I type this, we are receiving our first steady, modest ...

Wimbledon is the theater of the comeback: defector.com/wimbledon-is...

Wimbledon Is The Theater Of The Comeback | Defectordefector.com Few things are more satisfying to watch in sports than the unlikely comeback. Even among wins from a losing position, there are levels: A top seed recovering from their slow start (cough, Novak Djokov...

What’s the use of insiders if they only scoop press releases? defector.com/blackhawks-q...

What's The Use Of Insiders If They Only Scoop Press Releases? | Defectordefector.com For almost three years, former Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville, former GM Stan Bowman, and former assistant GM Al MacIsaac were banned from the NHL due to their lack of response after being ...

Save Paul Skenes’s arm, for the All-Star Game: defector.com/save-paul-sk...

Save Paul Skenes's Arm, For The All-Star Game | Defectordefector.com There was remarkably little public fuss when Pittsburgh Pirates manager Derek Shelton pulled Paul Skenes from Thursday’s start against Milwaukee, even though Skenes had a no-hitter through seven innin...

Biniam Girmay is the new Sprint King. defector.com/biniam-girma...

Biniam Girmay Is The New Sprint King | Defectordefector.com As the peloton sped into the final kilometer of Stage 12 of the Tour de France on Thursday, Biniam Girmay was about 20 riders back. The front of the pack roiled; no single team was strong enough to st...

How diminished are the president's capacities, actually? defector.com/whats-the-st...

This week on The Distraction: Joe Biden should GTFO defector.com/joe-biden-sh...

Joe Biden Should GTFO, With Rohan Nadkarni | Defectordefector.com I wasn’t really on my game for this week’s episode of The Distraction, because I’ve had to spend the past few weeks helping to tend to a sick member of my family. Real “good days, bad days” shit, if y...

The era of low expectations is over. defector.com/the-era-of-l...

The Era Of Low Expectations Is Over | Defectordefector.com In the days following the United States men’s national team’s unceremonious 3-1 loss to the Netherlands at the World Cup in 2022, I remember being struck by the way the two coaches talked about the ma...