This is what the Defector staff enjoyed eating in 2024.

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It was a concerning year. WWE continued to enlarge and enrich itself even as it failed to honestly reckon with the legacy of ...

I stopped drinking alcohol in June 2023, a decision that was long overdue and has since improved my life ...

It's been said many times before, across many different eras, but that doesn't make it any less true: The New York Jets ...

Magnus Carlsen left his lunch meeting and headed to the second day of the World Rapid Chess Championship. He said he changed ...

Select portions of the college football world were outraged—big shock there—by Miami quarterback Cam Ward's decision to play ...

When Greg Gumbel was named host of the CBS NFL pregame show in 1990, he was viewed as a departure for the network. Brent Musberger had been host of The NFL Today for the past 15 years, and a lot of ...

The Christmas showcase, the Black Friday game, the doubled-up Monday Night Football experience, the possibility of RedZone introducing commercials—the NFL realized that it didn't have to stick to ...

These were the worst purchases by the Defector staff in 2024.

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When F.C. Barcelona acquired Dani Olmo from RB Leipzig back in August, it did so despite clearly not being anywhere close to ...