Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family ...

I have tried over the past year and change to find a succinct way to tell this story and instead only keep coming up with longer and more elaborate versions. So: way back in law school I read a lot of ...

Dylan Larkin is still a Red Wing, even though he doesn’t want to be. His offseason trade request, arriving after 11 seasons with the club and a mere five playoff games (all as a rookie), symbolized ...

If you missed last week’s Thursday Night Football tilt between the Steelers and Browns, don’t grieve. The game itself was ...

The single discordant note in the otherwise effervescent National League Divisional Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and ...

Let’s play a game. What do you expect was the outcome of this 3-on-0? Expectations are a funny thing in sports. They are as subject to the observer effect as any quantum mechanic: When a player or a ...

If you listen to a certain subset of the media—not necessarily the sports media—the state of the WNBA is dire. A generational talent is being squandered. Weak leadership has failed a league on the ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew ...

To hear powerhouse sports agent Drew Rosenhaus tell it, his client, the once-electric receiver Tyreek Hill, could sign with a ...

You’ve been fighting it off as best you can, but the weight of the evidence is starting to hit your hips, knees and ankles in a series of small electric spasms. You’ve tried to explain it away as ...

The first thing I have to warn you is that if you purchase Josh Malerman’s Incidents Around The House, it will have a sticker on it saying it’s a movie now. If that’s a dealbreaker, there’s no ...

The Arizona State hockey team plays their home opener on Friday, but hanging over their season, and the entire program, will be what happened to defenseman Matthew Mayich. At an outdoor, ...