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International FootballThe Match Without Data: What to Write When Vietnamese Football Leaves No TraceOn a Saturday at the end of the month I sat on the concrete stand of a small...
BasketballAnthony Edwards' 45 Points: A Data Symphony or an Overture to Illusion?In the season opener, Anthony Edwards scored 45 points, including 9 successfu...
Domestic FootballThe Discipline of a Blank Page: Football Writing and the Price of an Unsourced DatapointLast week in Shanghai, the phone woke me at 11:40 p.m. An editor needed 1,738...
ChessChess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Defends Both Crowns While Broadcast Rights Hang in the BalanceOn 15 September 2026, the Chess Olympiad opens in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The...
Domestic FootballWhen an analysis report says nothing: How poor open data is hurting Vietnamese footballOne evening in Barcelona, I opened a deep analysis report that had just been...
VolleyballAsiad 20 Women's Volleyball Final: Japan's 48-Year Wait, China Arrives After Five SetsThe clock on the electronic board stopped at 1 hour 24 minutes. Japan had...
EsportsVCS Spring 2026 Transfer Market: When Silent Deals Speak Louder Than WordsOn the VCS Spring 2026 standings, Team Flash maintains its top-3 position aft...
SwimmingASCA World Clinic 2026: The 'Last Chance' Before Certification Reform and the Premium Small-Group Sessions with Herbie Behm & Gregg TroyOne week from now, Orlando will become the center of the American swimming...
VolleyballWomen's Volleyball at Asiad 20: China's 10th Gold and the Gaps Behind the Standings2 a.m. in Milan. I replayed the fifth set of the women's volleyball semifinal...
Domestic FootballVietnam U17 Women Reach the 2027 Asian Finals: Re-reading the 28 Goals Through DataThe third minute of a match I had to rewind four times. A cross-field pass fr...
International FootballDecoding Vietnam's National Team Strength Through Data: From AFF Cup 2026 to Asian Cup 2027In the AFF Cup 2026 final at Viet Tri, Vietnam national team made only 9 shot...
International FootballWhen Data Falls Silent: Investigating a Disappearance of Information in Vietnamese FootballNumbers never lie; only the people who read them deceive themselves. But what...
VolleyballAVP League 2026: One Block, Two Defensive Hands and the Lesson of a Neutralized BlockFrom the seventh row of the Oak Street Beach stands, the Chicago wind blew ba...
BasketballPanathinaikos – Peristeri 95-75: Three-Point Efficiency and the Foreign-Player Quota That Built the WinPanathinaikos entered the game against Peristeri with seven unavailable names...
International FootballEngland 2-3 Spain: Kane's Missed Penalty and the Thing Goals Cannot MeasureEngland 2-3 Spain: Kane's Missed Penalty and the Thing Goals Cannot Measure...
Domestic FootballHo Chi Minh City I Women: Eight Straight Titles and a Test Only Asia Can Answer1-2. That was the final scoreline of Ho Chi Minh City I Women's Football Club...
International FootballArsenal Sign 17-Year-Old Georgian Midfielder Andria Bartishvili and Contract Extensions for Key PlayersArsenal is preparing to welcome a young talent from Georgia as they have sign...
International FootballEmpty Data and Missing Talents: Notes from a Scout Working in VietnamMy notebook has a page that was left blank. That page holds the name of a...
International FootballEngland lose Konsa and Scott before the Czech Republic match: Tuchel's 'no risk' doctrine and a blind spot in the medical protocolThomas Tuchel walked into the press conference and did something few...
Domestic FootballPSG's Heartbreak Against Monaco: The Counter-Attack Anthem and the Pain Called the Third SpaceIn the 82nd minute at the Parc des Princes, Aleksandr Golovin – a player...
BasketballAnthony Edwards' 45 Points: A Data Symphony or an Overture to Illusion?In the season opener, Anthony Edwards scored 45 points, including 9 successfu...
Domestic FootballThe Discipline of a Blank Page: Football Writing and the Price of an Unsourced DatapointLast week in Shanghai, the phone woke me at 11:40 p.m. An editor needed 1,738...
ChessChess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Defends Both Crowns While Broadcast Rights Hang in the BalanceOn 15 September 2026, the Chess Olympiad opens in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The...
Domestic FootballWhen an analysis report says nothing: How poor open data is hurting Vietnamese footballOne evening in Barcelona, I opened a deep analysis report that had just been...
VolleyballAsiad 20 Women's Volleyball Final: Japan's 48-Year Wait, China Arrives After Five SetsThe clock on the electronic board stopped at 1 hour 24 minutes. Japan had...
EsportsVCS Spring 2026 Transfer Market: When Silent Deals Speak Louder Than WordsOn the VCS Spring 2026 standings, Team Flash maintains its top-3 position aft...
SwimmingASCA World Clinic 2026: The 'Last Chance' Before Certification Reform and the Premium Small-Group Sessions with Herbie Behm & Gregg TroyOne week from now, Orlando will become the center of the American swimming...
VolleyballWomen's Volleyball at Asiad 20: China's 10th Gold and the Gaps Behind the Standings2 a.m. in Milan. I replayed the fifth set of the women's volleyball semifinal...
Domestic FootballVietnam U17 Women Reach the 2027 Asian Finals: Re-reading the 28 Goals Through DataThe third minute of a match I had to rewind four times. A cross-field pass fr...
International FootballDecoding Vietnam's National Team Strength Through Data: From AFF Cup 2026 to Asian Cup 2027In the AFF Cup 2026 final at Viet Tri, Vietnam national team made only 9 shot...
International FootballWhen Data Falls Silent: Investigating a Disappearance of Information in Vietnamese FootballNumbers never lie; only the people who read them deceive themselves. But what...
VolleyballAVP League 2026: One Block, Two Defensive Hands and the Lesson of a Neutralized BlockFrom the seventh row of the Oak Street Beach stands, the Chicago wind blew ba...
BasketballPanathinaikos – Peristeri 95-75: Three-Point Efficiency and the Foreign-Player Quota That Built the WinPanathinaikos entered the game against Peristeri with seven unavailable names...
International FootballEngland 2-3 Spain: Kane's Missed Penalty and the Thing Goals Cannot MeasureEngland 2-3 Spain: Kane's Missed Penalty and the Thing Goals Cannot Measure...
Domestic FootballHo Chi Minh City I Women: Eight Straight Titles and a Test Only Asia Can Answer1-2. That was the final scoreline of Ho Chi Minh City I Women's Football Club...
International FootballArsenal Sign 17-Year-Old Georgian Midfielder Andria Bartishvili and Contract Extensions for Key PlayersArsenal is preparing to welcome a young talent from Georgia as they have sign...
International FootballEmpty Data and Missing Talents: Notes from a Scout Working in VietnamMy notebook has a page that was left blank. That page holds the name of a...
International FootballEngland lose Konsa and Scott before the Czech Republic match: Tuchel's 'no risk' doctrine and a blind spot in the medical protocolThomas Tuchel walked into the press conference and did something few...
Domestic FootballPSG's Heartbreak Against Monaco: The Counter-Attack Anthem and the Pain Called the Third SpaceIn the 82nd minute at the Parc des Princes, Aleksandr Golovin – a player...
