Patrick Redford

On Thursday afternoon, the WorldTour cycling team formerly known as Israel–Premier Tech unveiled its new form: NSN Cycling Team, which will be licensed out of Switzerland and based in Spain. A few short months after its presence at the Vuelta a España incited fierce protests, the IPT project has unraveled. According to reports, IPT’s cantankerous…

This week on Nothing But Respect we were joined by the boys from You Know Ball for a special home-and-home podcast series. Part 1, which you can find below, was in theory dedicated to the question of which teams this season are cool. I say “in theory” because we had to first get through an…

Have you watched the Miami Heat this season? They’re doing weird stuff, and it’s mostly working. Weeks after the Grizzlies fired head coach Taylor Jenkins, they also let go of several staffers, including first-year assistant Noah LaRoche, who then joined Miami. LaRoche was the architect of an unorthodox Grizzlies offense last year, an offense that…

A little over three years ago, the greatest chess player of all time lost to a swaggering young American grandmaster, self-ejected from an important tournament, and kicked off the biggest and strangest cheating scandal chess has ever seen. The story of Magnus Carlsen’s quixotic war against Hans Niemann gripped the chess world for years. Back…

On Oct. 19, American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky was found dead in his Charlotte, N.C. home. He was a few weeks shy of his 30th birthday, and his death, which police say is being investigated as a possible overdose or suicide, has rocked the chess world. The U.S. Chess Championships held a moment of silence…

Hours after the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, and published a pair of indictments detailing the former’s alleged involvement in a cooked prop-bet unders scheme and the latter’s alleged involvement in a rigged mafia poker game, the sports-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. They found a…

On Thursday, Donald Trump announced a presidential pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Zhao, better known as CZ, pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in November 2023, then spent most of the summer of 2024 in a U.S. prison before his September 2024 release. Binance is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by a wide margin,…

Defector’s newest podcast arrives next week: Only If You Get Caught is our latest show, and it’s all about breaking the rules. The first episode is out on Oct. 21. Over the course of our first season, we will tell the stories of eight cheating scandals, both in and outside of sports. That is the…

One month after mass protests against the presence of the Israel–Premier Tech team at the Vuelta a España brought the race to its knees, the rest of the cycling world has picked up where Spanish protestors left off. It is impossible to rule the protests as anything other than a categorical success, as sponsors are…

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Bari Weiss. As part of the deal, Weiss will ascend to the role of editor-in-chief of CBS News, a Paramount property and one of…