Tom Ley is the co-owner and Editor-in-Chief of Defector Media LLC. With a focus on sports journalism, Tom covers a wide range of topics including player interviews, game analysis, and commentary on current events in the sports world. His articles provide a unique perspective and often delve into the personal and human side of sports stories.
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Deshaun Watson's stomach-churning presence in the NFL appears to have been put on a long hiatus.
This week, the staff of Defector is once again gathering in a secret location to hold our all-company meetings. We are not going to the woods this year . Instead, we are going somewhere awful, because we are stupid.
Last Friday, Washington Post publisher and CEO Will Lewis announced in an editorial published on the paper's website that the Post 's editorial
What’s the most upsetting thing you can imagine existing on the internet? How about two videos—one 28 minutes in length, the other 31—each depicting a masked man methodically torturing, and then killing, a teenage girl. The videos, which feature dismemberment via power tool and an eyeball being slit open by an exacto knife, were broadcast […]
What's the most upsetting thing you can imagine existing on the internet? How about two videos—one 28 minutes in length, the other 31—each depicting a masked man methodically torturing, and then killing, a teenage girl. The videos, which feature dismemberment via power tool and an eyeball being slit open by an exacto knife, were broadcast live on the dark web to a paying audience of snuff-film enthusiasts.
An electoral defeat like the one just suffered by Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party is guaranteed to keep the Recrimination Engine redlined throughout the weeks and months to come. Right now, it's impossible to turn on the news, read a mainstream liberal publication, or scroll through social media without immediately being confronted with someone's diagnosis of where it all went wrong for the Democrats, followed by a strident declaration about what needs to happen next.
Before Monday night’s game between the Miami Dolphins and Los Angeles Rams, ESPN reporter Jeff Darlington and Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa teamed up to produce one of the year’s strangest pieces of NFL-related media. Tagovailoa is exactly the sort of young, talented, charismatic quarterback that the league and its broadcasters crave in order to sell […]
Big news: Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2025. Wow! That could be you! How could it be you? I am here to answer that question, and many more.
By: Tom Ley
Disgraced former NFL coach Jon Gruden has spent the last few years desperately trying to return to his craft. Gruden lost his head coaching job with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2021, after emails in which he used racist, homophobic, and sexist language were leaked to the press. In one of those emails, he wrote that "Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin tires," in reference to then-NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith. Gruden resigned from his position with the Raiders in October 2021, and then popped up the following year,
The Orlando Pride did not become the first team in NWSL history to collect 60 points for any one reason.
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