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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 ...
The saddest stories in local news are the ones where the body has been left to sit for a while. I worked in local news for ...
Nobody takes a hint less well than Rich Hill, and conversely nobody proves prevailing wisdom wrong more often than Rich Hill.
The rule is simple and straightforward, and it rarely proves anything but true: Judgments made after Game 1 of any series ...
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 ...
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 ...
One of my friends loves to say “buy the ticket, take the ride”—usually referencing the giant smothering cloud of apprehension and nausea that hits before the good part of the shroom trip (not that I’d ...
With the NBA conference finals matchups set, the most interesting narrative question of these playoffs has been answered.
It’s early Sunday evening on the last weekend of April, and I’m perched beside a currently out-of-use lane in a dimly lit ...
Tony Mansolino has been put in a tough position. It is his job today to engineer a turnaround for the most disappointing team ...