maitreyi anantharaman
@maitreyiaa.bsky.social
staff writer at Defector, mostly women's basketball // maitreyi.me
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interesting weekend! anyway! I’m really excited to work on this book about all the ways women’s basketball players are valued and devalued
shohei ohtani makes me want to have children so I can have grandchildren so I can tell them about him
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
shohei ohtani makes me want to have children so I can have grandchildren so I can tell them about him
Even though they're a functional team now, I have been so battered by so many bad years of Pistons basketball that merely seeing Cade in the NBA on NBC intro video felt amazing...second guy they showed 😭 representation matters
October 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Even though they're a functional team now, I have been so battered by so many bad years of Pistons basketball that merely seeing Cade in the NBA on NBC intro video felt amazing...second guy they showed 😭 representation matters
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Only If You Get Caught S1E1 is about the most infamous basketball conspiracy theory: Did the NBA fix Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals? Our guest is the great @tcraggs22.bsky.social. Subscribe now, Or Else!!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Only If You Get Caught
History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Only If You Get Caught is about how we can better understand sports and culture by appreciating the ways humans cheat in ways big and small.
Hosted by Patrick Redfo...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Only If You Get Caught S1E1 is about the most infamous basketball conspiracy theory: Did the NBA fix Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals? Our guest is the great @tcraggs22.bsky.social. Subscribe now, Or Else!!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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Work continues to develop a comprehensive and trustworthy historical archive for...
the WNBA: acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/
Unrivaled: unrivaled.acrossthetimeline.com
AU: acrossthetimeline.com/auprosports/
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the WNBA: acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/
Unrivaled: unrivaled.acrossthetimeline.com
AU: acrossthetimeline.com/auprosports/
Consider supporting continued development financially:
acrossthetimeline.com/support.html
October 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Work continues to develop a comprehensive and trustworthy historical archive for...
the WNBA: acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/
Unrivaled: unrivaled.acrossthetimeline.com
AU: acrossthetimeline.com/auprosports/
Consider supporting continued development financially:
acrossthetimeline.com/support.html
the WNBA: acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/
Unrivaled: unrivaled.acrossthetimeline.com
AU: acrossthetimeline.com/auprosports/
Consider supporting continued development financially:
acrossthetimeline.com/support.html
thank you Aces for sweeping so I can go home and pick up my library holds before the deadline 🙏 such a neat team to watch and cover this postseason! defector.com/the-aces-mad...
The Aces Made Their Season From The Muck | Defector
PHOENIX — Now they were just showing off, treating the crowd to an encore. Jackie Young zigged and zagged to the rim. Chelsea Gray’s strange-looking heaves swished in. NaLyssa Smith pulled down all th...
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October 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
thank you Aces for sweeping so I can go home and pick up my library holds before the deadline 🙏 such a neat team to watch and cover this postseason! defector.com/the-aces-mad...
as per tradition, I am rereading my Notes app Tigers season diary today (you can see me get increasingly panicked as we choke away the division) and there is really no other sport with this emotional rhythm, baseball owns
October 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
as per tradition, I am rereading my Notes app Tigers season diary today (you can see me get increasingly panicked as we choke away the division) and there is really no other sport with this emotional rhythm, baseball owns
that's the greatest player ever man defector.com/who-can-stop...
Who Can Stop A'ja Wilson? | Defector
PHOENIX — On paper, all the havoc of a basketball game becomes something neat and unfeeling. However spiritually untrue it seems, this is actually true: In Game 3 of the WNBA Finals, there was only on...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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you can keep your little Etsy witch. this is a union town, we don’t fuck with the gig economy
October 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
you can keep your little Etsy witch. this is a union town, we don’t fuck with the gig economy
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For the WNBPA and the NWSLPA, solidarity is an ethos as well as a strategy. I spoke with leaders from both unions to learn more about the organizations' strong relationship:
The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together
For NWSL and WNBA players’ unions, collective actions have been key to their successes in wholly different sports
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October 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
For the WNBPA and the NWSLPA, solidarity is an ethos as well as a strategy. I spoke with leaders from both unions to learn more about the organizations' strong relationship:
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There's a delicious irony in WNBA sources complaining about Unrivaled's role in CBA negotiations when the league exists in no small part because of the prioritization rules the WNBA insisted on during the current CBA. Be careful what you wish for ...
October 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
There's a delicious irony in WNBA sources complaining about Unrivaled's role in CBA negotiations when the league exists in no small part because of the prioritization rules the WNBA insisted on during the current CBA. Be careful what you wish for ...
excited to cover these desert Finals for Defector! a dispatch from the most crowded and eagerly awaited WNBA press conference I've ever been to... defector.com/the-hottest-...
The Hottest Ticket In Vegas? Cathy Engelbert's Press Conference | Defector
LAS VEGAS — An Aces game overloads the senses well before the game itself begins. The national anthem features indoor fireworks. Seats rumble from the bass of the speakers. There’s so much to look at,...
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October 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
excited to cover these desert Finals for Defector! a dispatch from the most crowded and eagerly awaited WNBA press conference I've ever been to... defector.com/the-hottest-...
to beat the guardians, we first had to become them.
October 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
to beat the guardians, we first had to become them.
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They're calling it the longest day in WNBA history
October 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
They're calling it the longest day in WNBA history
tying run on third, no outs and couldn't score. just bad fundamentals. the guardians have to learn how to play small ball and do the little things right.
September 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
tying run on third, no outs and couldn't score. just bad fundamentals. the guardians have to learn how to play small ball and do the little things right.
lmao i am the biggest fool in america
Bulletin board material for the Mercury: I have been so confident in a Lynx series win that weeks ago I got tickets to Lorde in Minneapolis for the night before Finals Game 5. (though I'm increasingly worried there won't be a Game 5 to cover? this can be bulletin board material for the Lynx too)
September 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
lmao i am the biggest fool in america
Bulletin board material for the Mercury: I have been so confident in a Lynx series win that weeks ago I got tickets to Lorde in Minneapolis for the night before Finals Game 5. (though I'm increasingly worried there won't be a Game 5 to cover? this can be bulletin board material for the Lynx too)
September 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Bulletin board material for the Mercury: I have been so confident in a Lynx series win that weeks ago I got tickets to Lorde in Minneapolis for the night before Finals Game 5. (though I'm increasingly worried there won't be a Game 5 to cover? this can be bulletin board material for the Lynx too)
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With Sandy Brondello out, Cheryl Reeve has officially been on the job longer than every other WNBA coach combined.
Cheryl Reeve's tenure: 5768 days
Every other WNBA coach combined: 4529 days
Cheryl Reeve's tenure: 5768 days
Every other WNBA coach combined: 4529 days
September 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
With Sandy Brondello out, Cheryl Reeve has officially been on the job longer than every other WNBA coach combined.
Cheryl Reeve's tenure: 5768 days
Every other WNBA coach combined: 4529 days
Cheryl Reeve's tenure: 5768 days
Every other WNBA coach combined: 4529 days
it’s still so crazy to me that the lions have this much talent, for the first ~20 years of my fandom, there were pretty much three total jersey options, and now there are like eight jersey-worthy guys playing in this game
September 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
it’s still so crazy to me that the lions have this much talent, for the first ~20 years of my fandom, there were pretty much three total jersey options, and now there are like eight jersey-worthy guys playing in this game
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Defector, along with five other news outlets, is going to court for documents in the Tyreek Hill case. This blog (paywall down) explains why:
Why Defector Is Intervening To Make Public A Confidential Document In The Tyreek Hill Case | Defector
Six news outlets—Defector Media, the Miami Herald, Scripps Media, CBS4 (WFOR-TV), NBC6 (WTVJ-TV), and Telemundo 51(WSCV-TV)—all asked for permission to intervene in Tyreek Hill’s divorce case on Frida...
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September 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Defector, along with five other news outlets, is going to court for documents in the Tyreek Hill case. This blog (paywall down) explains why:
Patrick on A'ja and last night's Storm-Aces game is great. also your screen will turn off at the precise second you stop reading. many thanks to our web developers for adding that new feature
A’ja Wilson is the smoothest operator: defector.com/aja-wilson-i...
A'ja Wilson Is The Smoothest Operator | Defector
What I like about watching A’ja Wilson operate is how simple she makes the game look. Not easy, but simple, as she applies basic principles of footwork and positioning at the highest possible level…
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September 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Patrick on A'ja and last night's Storm-Aces game is great. also your screen will turn off at the precise second you stop reading. many thanks to our web developers for adding that new feature
"An astonishing 95 percent of the 7,130 eligible MLB players were remembered at least once. Judging by bWAR accumulated in the 2000s, the most productive MLB player who went unremembered was Reese Olson, who has 4.4 bWAR at time of writing."
Who gets remembered? Crunching the numbers from 36,000 immaculate grids: defector.com/who-gets-rem...
Who Gets Remembered? Crunching The Numbers From 36,000 Immaculate Grids | Defector
Two weeks ago, in partnership with our pals over at Immaculate Grid by Sports Reference, we announced Some Guys I Remember From The 21st Century. Between then and now, we remembered not just some but…
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September 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"An astonishing 95 percent of the 7,130 eligible MLB players were remembered at least once. Judging by bWAR accumulated in the 2000s, the most productive MLB player who went unremembered was Reese Olson, who has 4.4 bWAR at time of writing."
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September 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Today is the FINAL DAY of Defector's subscription sale. Get three months for just $5! defector.com/products
when I think of the 2020 WNBA season I think of these gals
September 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
when I think of the 2020 WNBA season I think of these gals
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September 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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