Defector was founded in 2020 by the former staff of the sports and culture website Deadspin, which very publicly quit en masse in 2019 after Deadspin’s owners tried to enforce a ham-handed “stick to sports” mandate.

Source: https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/science-journalism-has-its-defector-moment/

Welcome to Deadspin’s The Sports Nihilist, where all is for naught and we are but accidental jolts of electrified meat stuck to the surface of a rock in an indifferent universe.

Source: https://deadspin.com/super-bowl-lvii-travis-kelce-jason-kelce-nfl-brothers-1850069977