| 1 | Jun 11, '23 | The Last Page Of The Internet | 202× | 3.7M | 3.1k | 662 | 1.3k |
| 2 | Oct 19, '20 | Even Joe Buck and Troy Aikman find pregame flyovers to be a little much these days: | 64.1× | 0 | 9.3k | 2.8k | 370 |
| 3 | Jul 28, '20 | This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company from the writers you missed. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. | 52.8× | 0 | 13k | 2.3k | 208 |
| 4 | Aug 28, '23 | 50 years later, is there anything left of hip-hop? | 47.7× | 865k | 777 | 238 | 469 |
| 5 | Dec 29, '22 | Hell is Marvin Lewis: an open letter to Zac Taylor | 39.7× | 718k | 641 | 79 | 83 |
| 6 | Feb 13, '23 | Selling out still sucks: | 36× | 652k | 815 | 87 | 96 |
| 7 | Sep 8, '23 | Defector turns three years old this week! That means it's time to answer some questions about the business. | 30.9× | 561k | 529 | 57 | 27 |
| 8 | Oct 6, '25 | No good art comes from greed: | 24.1× | 436k | 4.4k | 444 | 921 |
| 9 | Aug 24, '23 | The Hollywood strike forces a reckoning for the trades: | 21.6× | 392k | 385 | 128 | 55 |
| 10 | Feb 23, '24 | Vice was a good website. On Thursday it was killed by its private equity owners, in a characteristically cruel and sudden maneuver. | 17.4× | 314k | 926 | 248 | 99 |
| 11 | May 16, '25 | The New York Times really asked Ms. Rachel if she’s paid by Hamas: | 10.4× | 189k | 636 | 169 | 65 |
| 12 | Oct 7, '25 | View post on X | 9.7× | 176k | 523 | 111 | 93 |
| 13 | Jul 28, '20 | "If you’re going to take a moonshot, you may as well do it exactly the way you want to." | 8.6× | 0 | 2.3k | 406 | 65 |
| 14 | Oct 26, '20 | Arizona Trump supporters accuse DeAndre Hopkins of being cooler than previously realized: | 8.5× | 0 | 2.6k | 325 | 17 |
| 15 | Feb 17, '21 | Point/Counterpoint: Rush Limbaugh | 8.3× | 0 | 2.6k | 371 | 26 |
| 16 | Jun 21, '21 | Iowa TV station interrupts U.S. Open at funniest possible time: | 8.2× | 0 | 2.2k | 360 | 52 |
| 17 | Mar 11, '24 | Subscribe to Defector: The last good website | 7.7× | 140k | 241 | 49 | 18 |
| 18 | Apr 15, '24 | Cybertruck deliveries halted due to car being a big piece of shit that doesn't work: | 7.5× | 136k | 1.2k | 210 | 39 |
| 19 | Sep 10, '20 | Here it is: | 7.2× | 0 | 1.8k | 328 | 24 |
| 20 | Jun 16, '22 | NYT-owned The Athletic lays down "no politics" rule for staff: | 6.5× | 0 | 403 | 114 | 56 |
| 21 | Dec 14, '23 | The Giants have a problem and it’s not San Francisco: | 6.2× | 112k | 354 | 59 | 19 |
| 22 | Jul 29, '20 | Over 10,000 people subscribed to on Day One, but billions more have the opportunity to join on Day Two | 6.0× | 0 | 1.8k | 147 | 8 |
| 23 | Dec 28, '20 | This is what the Defector staff enjoyed listening to in 2020: | 5.8× | 0 | 1.1k | 397 | 114 |
| 24 | Jul 19, '22 | Everyone but the Mets kind of sucks at winning challenges: | 5.1× | 0 | 1.6k | 116 | 27 |
| 25 | Mar 30, '21 | Woman who didn’t call a timeout while her team gave up a 19-0 run has thoughts on COVID testing: | 5.1× | 0 | 1.5k | 200 | 10 |
| 26 | Mar 14, '22 | BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS | 4.6× | 0 | 1.6k | 127 | 10 |
| 27 | Jul 29, '20 | We understand that everyone is excited about , but Roth and Lauren encourage you to take this time to remember Lyle Overbay and Todd Jones. Who are some guys you remember? | 4.5× | 0 | 881 | 24 | 5 |
| 28 | Mar 13, '24 | Report: Aaron Rodgers being considered for dream job as attention-getting loser | 4.2× | 77k | 616 | 67 | 6 |
| 29 | Nov 28, '21 | The Lemieuxs are the first father-son duo in NHL history to both get ejected for biting: | 4.2× | 0 | 1.1k | 201 | 24 |
| 30 | Dec 18, '20 | Today is the 100th day since the launch of Defector, which means that it’s time to settle a grudge that began over a year ago. | 4.1× | 0 | 1.2k | 151 | 24 |
| 31 | Feb 26, '21 | This is why everybody hates the Democrats: | 3.6× | 0 | 834 | 276 | 22 |
| 32 | Apr 19, '20 | WE'RE BACK! | 3.6× | 0 | 901 | 194 | 20 |
| 33 | Jun 25, '24 | Love him or hate him, Alexi Lalas stinks at his job: | 3.5× | 64k | 447 | 60 | 19 |
| 34 | May 24, '22 | There's nothing worse than a shitty team that also takes forever to finish a single game. With that in mind, here are the MLB fans that have suffered the most so far this year. | 3.5× | 0 | 697 | 115 | 19 |
| 35 | Feb 13, '23 | The NFL still isn’t done exploiting Pat Tillman: | 3.5× | 63k | 456 | 145 | 12 |
| 36 | Aug 4, '23 | Tobin Heath and Christen Press offer a dose of sanity this World Cup: | 3.4× | 62k | 425 | 55 | 23 |
| 37 | Jun 15, '22 | Why is this tiny frog so awful at jumping? | 3.3× | 0 | 702 | 164 | 43 |
| 38 | Feb 10, '22 | The Seattle Times suddenly fired Kraken beat reporter Marisa Ingemi, and her former colleagues want to know why. | 3.3× | 0 | 703 | 168 | 29 |
| 39 | Jul 28, '20 | The Defector website will launch in September, but you won't have to wait that long for our content: the @DistractPod with @david_j_roth and @drewmagary launches on August 13! | 3.2× | 0 | 1k | 95 | 11 |
| 40 | Nov 5, '21 | Aaron Rodgers becomes No. 1 sports moron in the world: | 3.1× | 0 | 1k | 95 | 13 |
| 41 | Feb 3, '22 | More women say Barstool founder Dave Portnoy subjected them to violent sex, filmed encounters without consent: | 3.1× | 0 | 550 | 172 | 33 |
| 42 | Jan 18, '24 | Music journalism can't afford a hollowed-out Pitchfork: | 3.1× | 56k | 319 | 90 | 49 |
| 43 | Sep 10, '20 | To celebrate the launch of Defector, Daniel Radcliffe read some of the Worst Tweets of 2020 so far. Watch the full version here: | 3.1× | 0 | 833 | 114 | 42 |
| 44 | Jun 29, '22 | To the fan who sent us Steve Sharts and a blank piece of paper in a plain envelope with no return address ... thank you. | 3.0× | 0 | 1.1k | 65 | 9 |
| 45 | Aug 1, '24 | J.K. Rowling invents a trans Olympian to get mad at: | 2.9× | 52k | 752 | 136 | 15 |
| 46 | Dec 14, '20 | Introducing Defector's plan for not fucking over freelancers: | 2.9× | 0 | 744 | 93 | 54 |
| 47 | Nov 11, '19 | You Can't "Stick To Sports" by @barry | 2.8× | 0 | 745 | 162 | 24 |
| 48 | May 19, '21 | It is unconscionable that the gay community has ostracized me simply because I was born a cop: | 2.7× | 0 | 677 | 157 | 18 |
| 49 | Nov 15, '22 | How many trans people does The New York Times believe there should be? | 2.6× | 0 | 626 | 162 | 44 |
| 50 | Apr 21, '20 | Here's your 2020 Name of the Year bracket: | 2.4× | 0 | 363 | 118 | 14 |
| 51 | Jan 7, '21 | You can only start so many fires before your house burns down. | 2.4× | 0 | 622 | 154 | 19 |
| 52 | Dec 16, '20 | It's here: The 2020 Hater’s Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog | 2.3× | 0 | 424 | 101 | 26 |
| 53 | Nov 26, '21 | Today is a good day to not read Wirecutter: | 2.1× | 0 | 548 | 158 | 8 |
| 54 | Nov 9, '20 | What will Clay Travis, the wrongest man in the world, pivot to now? | 2.1× | 0 | 564 | 90 | 9 |
| 55 | Nov 11, '19 | Even the shitheads at Barstool Sports deserve a union, via @Samer | 2.1× | 0 | 649 | 64 | 13 |
| 56 | Feb 23, '21 | Barstool Sports CEO: Has anyone heard about this sexist thing my site does every day? | 2.0× | 0 | 558 | 84 | 30 |
| 57 | Nov 30, '21 | Let's all laugh at Andrew Cuomo’s pathetic crisis team: | 2.0× | 0 | 516 | 87 | 40 |
| 58 | Sep 24, '20 | Jason Whitlock made some important points in front of Congress today: | 2.0× | 0 | 519 | 71 | 16 |
| 59 | Dec 15, '20 | There is evidently some confusion about what, exactly, Jeffrey Toobin did wrong. @AlbertBurneko is here to clarify. | 2.0× | 0 | 574 | 93 | 9 |
| 60 | May 22, '23 | Heartwarming: Trevor Bauer is getting lit up in Japan | 1.9× | 35k | 338 | 29 | 1 |
| 61 | Dec 19, '19 | It’s back. | 1.9× | 0 | 454 | 100 | 16 |
| 62 | Oct 12, '22 | I just ate $28 worth of Taco Bell because some dingus on TV claimed he did: | 1.8× | 0 | 424 | 75 | 12 |
| 63 | Jun 1, '22 | Flyers’ Scott Laughton struggles to raise flag, stares directly into the sun: | 1.8× | 0 | 412 | 72 | 18 |
| 64 | Nov 12, '19 | @EasterbrookG Here's a new idea: you going and fucking yourself | 1.8× | 0 | 657 | 24 | 5 |
| 65 | Apr 12, '21 | It never ends like it should: | 1.8× | 0 | 497 | 79 | 12 |
| 66 | Sep 10, '20 | Thanks to everybody who's trying to comment on the site this morning. We appreciate you bearing with us as our server tries to handle 200 requests per second. | 1.8× | 0 | 669 | 9 | 0 |
| 67 | Sep 9, '20 | The comments work. | 1.7× | 0 | 638 | 10 | 0 |
| 68 | Mar 3, '21 | .@mckinneykelsey started playing Blaseball in mid-September, thinking she'd write a straightforward story about how the game worked. And then she fell in love. | 1.7× | 0 | 359 | 110 | 38 |
| 69 | Oct 18, '20 | The Houston Astros are now free to fuck off: | 1.7× | 0 | 544 | 61 | 2 |
| 70 | Jun 16, '22 | Frogs evolved the ability to jump before they evolved the ability to land, meaning not all frogs have mastered the second part of the process. | 1.7× | 0 | 369 | 92 | 17 |
| 71 | Dec 17, '21 | How I got smart, by @Jeopardamy: | 1.7× | 0 | 420 | 47 | 33 |
| 72 | Dec 29, '21 | Only John Madden could have lived John Madden’s life | 1.6× | 0 | 371 | 75 | 51 |
| 73 | Mar 8, '22 | Carli Lloyd, what are you even talking about? | 1.6× | 0 | 452 | 50 | 30 |
| 74 | Dec 28, '23 | It's time for the Jamboroo! With special guest host @dirtbagqueer | ⚡ 1.6× | 578k | 388 | 55 | 34 |
| 75 | Dec 15, '21 | It's here. | 1.6× | 0 | 336 | 69 | 15 |
| 76 | Sep 9, '21 | Yes, the cast and crew of 'The Master of Disguise' did hold a moment of silence on set to reflect on 9/11. And yes, Carvey was in full turtle get-up. The impromptu ceremony just di | 1.5× | 0 | 365 | 63 | 17 |
| 77 | Mar 24, '20 | Drew on living in a country that has a relentless death wish. | 1.5× | 0 | 366 | 113 | 11 |
| 78 | Jan 6, '20 | Remember when literally all of this happened already? @AlbertBurneko at @outline: | 1.5× | 0 | 367 | 106 | 20 |
| 79 | Aug 23, '20 | Apple engineers keep coming up to @drewmagary and @david_j_roth, big strong engineers with tears in their eyes, and they say, "Sir, too many people are downloading @DistractPod. Ou | 1.5× | 0 | 553 | 29 | 3 |
| 80 | Dec 2, '19 | View post on X | 1.5× | 0 | 478 | 33 | 15 |
| 81 | Nov 7, '20 | Oh my god, what a chump: | 1.4× | 0 | 434 | 48 | 11 |
| 82 | Jul 20, '21 | The billionaires did it. They made spaceflight uncool. | 1.4× | 0 | 395 | 76 | 5 |
| 83 | Nov 19, '20 | Switching to a reliance on contractors during a union drive or during stalled collective bargaining is union-busting, and that's what The Ringer is doing. | 1.3× | 0 | 366 | 52 | 10 |
| 84 | Dec 14, '21 | The Wirecutter Union won: | 1.3× | 0 | 394 | 62 | 3 |
| 85 | Sep 17, '20 | Money is a necessary and sufficient explanation for why college football is being played. It’s the reality, and pretending otherwise just insults everyone. | 1.2× | 0 | 317 | 81 | 8 |
| 86 | Jul 28, '20 | You can get a discount if you subscribe to Defector before we launch in September. That's what we call "economics," baby. | 1.2× | 0 | 357 | 24 | 11 |
| 87 | Oct 2, '20 | Our idiot president now has COVID-19. | 1.2× | 0 | 395 | 40 | 8 |
| 88 | Sep 10, '20 | Dan Snyder is a vile sack of shit, and Washington sucks. | 1.2× | 0 | 331 | 43 | 2 |
| 89 | Sep 7, '21 | AEW's All Out peaked not with a huge debut or finisher, but through one of the most basic elements of wrestling: a simple kick-out. | 1.2× | 0 | 383 | 37 | 12 |
| 90 | Jul 31, '20 | A very comfortable bear for your Friday afternoon. | 1.2× | 0 | 389 | 22 | 6 |
| 91 | Aug 6, '21 | Kirk Cousins sucks: | 1.2× | 0 | 332 | 55 | 2 |
| 92 | Jan 18, '21 | Drew Brees now has lots of time to respect the flag: | 1.1× | 0 | 325 | 44 | 3 |
| 93 | Nov 9, '20 | Donald Trump is a fucking moron. The people around him are fucking morons. | 1.1× | 0 | 330 | 43 | 9 |
| 94 | Sep 15, '20 | Mask on, cards ready: Roth and Lauren are Remembering Some Guys | 1.1× | 0 | 400 | 4 | 1 |
| 95 | Sep 26, '20 | Reds share statement about Thom Brennaman, hilarity ensues as here's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos And that'll be a home run. And so that'll make it a 4-0 Ballgame. I | 1.1× | 0 | 367 | 33 | 0 |
| 96 | Jan 10, '21 | Morons dissolve partnership: | 1.1× | 0 | 327 | 37 | 7 |
| 97 | Nov 8, '20 | The Trump presidency ended next to a porno shop: | 1.0× | 0 | 309 | 36 | 11 |
| 98 | Apr 1, '22 | Heartwarming: Amazon eats shit | 1.0× | 0 | 297 | 52 | 2 |
| 99 | Feb 19, '20 | The Giants didn't invite Aubrey Huff to their World Series reunion for a simple reason: He's a gigantic prick. From @Samer: | 0.9× | 0 | 298 | 37 | 3 |
| 100 | Jul 28, '20 | Thanks to everyone who subscribed or signed up for our emails on today. Enjoy Edmonton vs Calgary tonight. | 0.9× | 0 | 306 | 11 | 0 |