The Earned Time Act was approved by New York State Corrections Committee, a small but meaningful step in the proposed law’s ...

Wednesday night’s 9-5 loss to the Phillies was their fourth in a row. Their .163 winning percentage is the worst in baseball.

I don’t know what I expected from a European final between the 16th- and 17th-placed teams in the Premier League, but it wasn’t that. Maybe I was fooled by the stature of Tottenham Hotspur and ...

Ten NFL teams voted against banning the Tush Push today, leaving the Philadelphia Eagles free to convert short-yardage plays ...

Nobody takes a hint less well than Rich Hill, and conversely nobody proves prevailing wisdom wrong more often than Rich Hill.

I made a fateful decision ahead of the Eastern Conference Finals. I think it was Sunday. The night before, the New York Knicks had finished off the defending champion Boston Celtics. The Indiana ...

Tuesday’s Mets-Red Sox game marked a return to action for both Red Sox starter Walker Buehler and manager Alex Cora. Buehler was put on the IL with a shoulder injury on May 2; the inflammation cleared ...

There was a sequence in the first quarter of Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals where the Oklahoma City Thunder used a ...

The rule is simple and straightforward, and it rarely proves anything but true: Judgments made after Game 1 of any series ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The ...

Thank god my Amtrak was only 20 minutes late. I arrived in Rochester on Friday afternoon ahead of a top-secret non-Defector ...

Spike Lee didn’t invent the floating dolly shot, but he did make it his signature move. It’s not just in his repeated use of the technique, but rather in his understanding of its storytelling ...