The Canadian Football League had always been fond of its quaint approach to the sport—adding 10 yards to the field here, ...

Joe Flacco is 40 years old. His beard is graying. He lives in a top-five Philadelphia suburb in New Jersey and has five kids.

If America is starting to feel a bit early days of Nazi Germany, then I’d say my native Britain is taking on the distinct ...

Since the website’s inception, one of Defector’s core beats has been the warped dynamics of stadium construction. Perhaps no ...

Oklahoma State has announced that head football coach Mike Gundy has been relieved of his duties, bringing an end to a 20-year run at the school. The final straw seems to have come after last Friday’s ...

There’s good news in Bruce Pearl’s retirement as head basketball coach at Auburn, which is that he says he will not run for ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking ...

Kneejerk America, a phrase that is a redundancy in entirely too many instances, will view the entrails of the Lions-Ravens Monday Night Football match-up and render a swift judgment—that Detroit is ...