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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 15h

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 17h

Finally I can stop muttering Herb Brooks lines to myself while writing. The legs feed the wolf!

Defector @defector.com · 17h

Lauren Theisen gets you ready for the NHL season: defector.com/whos-hot-and-whos-not-a-2025-26-nhl-preview

Who's Hot And Who's Not? A 2025–26 NHL Preview | Defector

[Ear-shaking siren noise.] It’s time for the NHL season preview! Drop the needle on Stompin’ Tom. You probably get how most of this works by now, but I’ve got a new method of organizing the teams.…

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 18h

omg thank you!

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bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 18h

this is my favorite nhl preview. lauren's coverage of hockey is so good, and so accessible. it's always written as someone who is talking *with* you and not someone just throwing stats at you

Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a hockey preview for you! It's concise, comprehensive, and objectifies a lot of men. defector.com/whos-hot-and...

Who's Hot And Who's Not? A 2025–26 NHL Preview | Defector

[Ear-shaking siren noise] It’s time for the NHL season preview! Drop the needle on Stompin’ Tom. You probably get how most of this works by now, but I’ve got a new method of organizing the teams. I’m ...

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 20h

the last few years of writing previews the Blues have been literally the hardest team to say anything interesting about lol

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 21h

perfect take

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 22h

it's an Anthony Mantha shirsey day 🚨

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Defector @defector.com · 1d

The Chiefs couldn't stop a quarterback who fell on his butt: defector.com/the-chiefs-c...

The Chiefs Couldn't Stop A Quarterback Who Fell On His Butt | Defector

The leftist British rock group Chumbawamba once sang the immortal lyrics “I get knocked down, but I get up again.” Well, on Monday night against the Chiefs, Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence fell…

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 23h

oh wow I'd completely forgotten about this

I was wearing dog ears made out of paper and black eye pencil on my nose when I finally realized how powerful “Mr. Brightside” could be.

It was Halloween of 2015. I was dressed as Mr. Peanutbutter from “BoJack Horseman,” and I was in a Kerrytown basement with a faulty stereo system. The music was great, but the songs would sometimes cut out for minutes at a time — people would trip over a cord or knock against the speaker the wrong way or something, and we’d be stuck in awkward, disappointed silence until it got fixed.

Anyway, “Mr. Brightside” comes on, and if you’re a fan of The Killers, you know there’s no greater rush of excitement than those opening guitar notes. You hear them come out of nowhere and it’s just delirious ecstasy, with the entire room suddenly united in a sweaty mess of jumps and shouts.

And that was the reaction at this Halloween party — until the speakers gave way again. Except, the thing is, the lack of music didn’t stop the song. People kept singing the words, clapping along to the beat and turning the basement into a spontaneous a cappella party that lasted until the real “Mr. Brightside” came back with all its synth-pop spectacle.

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a hockey preview for you! It's concise, comprehensive, and objectifies a lot of men. defector.com/whos-hot-and...

Who's Hot And Who's Not? A 2025–26 NHL Preview | Defector

[Ear-shaking siren noise] It’s time for the NHL season preview! Drop the needle on Stompin’ Tom. You probably get how most of this works by now, but I’ve got a new method of organizing the teams. I’m ...

defector.com

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Defector @defector.com · 1d

Who's hot and who's not? A 2025-26 NHL preview: defector.com/whos-hot-and...

Who's Hot And Who's Not? A 2025–26 NHL Preview | Defector

[Ear-shaking siren noise.] It’s time for the NHL season preview! Drop the needle on Stompin’ Tom. You probably get how most of this works by now, but I’ve got a new method of organizing the teams.…

defector.com

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 4d

someone investigate: does an athlete ever really "lose sleep" over a major mistake they make in a game? is that a real thing?

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 5d

I was so sure that I had outsmarted this blog on the very first try but Dylan Larkin is 29!!!! This is the work of a mad genius.

Defector @defector.com · 5d

Name a 28-year-old: defector.com/name-a-28-ye...

Name A 28-Year-Old | Defector

Here is the challenge before you: Name a famous person who is 28 years old. Go ahead. No cheating, no looking it up. Off the dome. Pure, uncut 28-year-old naming. I bet you can’t do it. Zendaya? 29.…

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 5d

youtu.be/UFkzh1xQ0gE

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 6d

btw I talked Tigers and all the other teams with Drew and Roth on The Distraction art19.com/shows/the-di...

MLB Playoffs Preview! with Lauren Theisen

Defector’s own Lauren Theisen joins Drew and Roth to preview the MLB playoffs, and the first game featured Lauren’s Tigers beating the Guardians on the road?? Then, they talk about the WNBA Finals bei...

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Defector @defector.com · 6d

Jazz Chisholm flew: defector.com/jazz-chishol...

Jazz Chisholm Flew | Defector

Elimination games don’t get much more tense than Yankees–Red Sox Game 2. When Ben Rice homered in the first for a 2-0 New York lead, Trevor Story responded in the top of the third with two RBI of his…

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 6d

go get 'em Tigers

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 7d

$136 million will getcha a lot of lutefisk defector.com/minnesota-is...

Minnesota Is Good Enough For Kirill Kaprizov | Defector

There’s never been a better ad for St. Paul than Kirill Kaprizov’s new contract. I think by this point in negotiations, most hockey observers assumed that the superstar winger would at least take a si...

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 8d

there are some optimistic Tiger thoughts down near the bottom defector.com/everything-w...

Everything We're Looking Forward To In The 2025 MLB Playoffs | Defector

For one more day, it is still September—a fine month, all told, but not the undisputed king of Baseball Months. And yet, because the MLB playoffs begin today, and because every bit of baseball played ...

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 21d

I could afford to say this more often: transitioning is so frickin goated

Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 21d

the woman / the fountain

the middle of lincoln center. the fountain's actually a fairly small part of the overall pic but it's a really pretty dusk scene

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 21d

I could afford to say this more often: transitioning is so frickin goated

Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 21d

the woman / the fountain

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 21d

the woman / the fountain

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 21d

I wake up every morning regretting that I couldn't get a better picture of the "USE GAY DETOUR" sign

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 22d

this was a really witty and worthwhile read electramordinson.itch.io/impossible-y...

Impossible Year by Electra Mordinson

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