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Jan 9, 2025 · The remaining players in Turin were less passionate than Zverev and Medvedev about tennis balls, but had their own reads on the situation. Casper Ruud, a clay specialist …
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Defector is an employee-owned sports and culture website. We write about sports, politics, TV, movies, science, weird shit that happens on the internet, and anything else that catches our …
‘Nickel Boys’ Deserves Best Picture | Defector
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Wings Hauser, American Weirdo - Defector
Jul 19, 2024 · When Entertainment Weekly profiled the actor Wings Hauser in the spring of 1991, he had made nine movies in the previous 15 months and was wrapping up production on a …
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Nov 20, 2024 · Augusta Britt has had, by any reasonable accounting, an extraordinarily rich and interesting life, and seems like a vivid and fascinating person. By her mid-teens in the mid …
Matene Toure | Defector
Feb 28, 2025 · Matene Toure is a tech and culture writer from New York City. Her film writing focuses on spotlighting agitprop, Black and anticolonial cinema and avant-garde film practices …
The 2024 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog
Dec 20, 2024 · [walks out to greet you as you pull into my circular driveway] There you are! Oh my goodness, look at you! You look so festive! Why don’t you leave your bags in the …
Normal Gossip - Defector
Normal Gossip delivers juicy, strange, funny, and utterly banal gossip about people you’ll never know and never meet. Host Rachelle Hampton discusses reader-submitted comedic gossip …
Why Your Team Sucks Archives - Defector
Sep 5, 2024 · 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 …
From TED To PERNOCTATED, Scrabble’s Best Player Knows No Limits
Mar 12, 2024 · Nigel competing in the Francophone Scrabble World Championships in 2015. (John Thys/AFP via Getty Images) David Eldar of Australia won the 2023 Scrabble world …