Three years ago, after a long but loveless marriage, the Minnesota Vikings let QB Kirk Cousins walk out the door. They felt free. Unburdened. Hopeful, even. No longer would they have to spend night ...

Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family ...

Under any other circumstances, in any other year, Kirk Cousins being traded back to the Minnesota Vikings would be universally mocked under the You Can’t Make Someone Go Back Home statutes. The story ...

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You’d be forgiven for briefly losing track of your place in linear time at the end of the third quarter of Tuesday night’s ...

Here is a thing that Republicans do not do, when they sweep into power: They do not bother brainstorming ways that they can ...

There are times when a team can lose a primetime game and feel hard-done-by. A good squad can have an off-night, or run into a particularly bad matchup, and suddenly millions of Monday Night Football ...

Bill Simmons got himself into some trouble a few weeks ago, when he admitted on his podcast that he had engaged in proxy ...

This week on Nothing But Respect, we talked about fashion. Whose style is good? Whose is bad? What exactly does a ...

From 2007 to 2009, Oklahoma City Thunder general manager Sam Presti selected future NBA MVPs Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, ...

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