This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

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The teams are voted on by the state’s football coaches association and recognize the top players in all five public school ...

The Minnesota Wild made an all-in move for one of the NHL's best players in his prime, acquiring defenseman Quinn Hughes from the Vancouver Canucks in a blockbuster trade — ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

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Tuesday NHL Diamond in the Rough Prop Pick: Can Sharks Limit Jared Spurgeon, Wild on Tuesday Night? The hunt takes The Wolf to the ice tonight, where a hidden gem lies buried beneath the chaos of a ...