john martin
Martial ArtsPFL Loses Its CEO Less Than Two Months After the Merger: How the MVP Brand Is Swallowing the PFL PlatformOn July 30, a statement announcing that the PFL and Most Valuable Promotions...
Martial ArtsPFL Loses Its CEO Seven Weeks After the MVP Merger: When the Buyer Becomes the BoughtIn the summer of 2026, I cut a video analysing the jungle pathing of an...
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...
International FootballRuben van Bommel, the 83rd Minute, and the Problem of a Sample Size of OneIn the 83rd minute on a pitch in Amsterdam, with the score at 1-1 and the...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital: Round Five at Age 39 and the Price That Never Shows on the ScorecardHook Las Vegas, September 26. The clock inside the cage ticked into the fifth...
TennisVienna 2026: Six Top-10 Entries, One Wildcard, and the Limits of the 'Mini Grand Slam' LabelTuesday, eleven in the morning, and the roof of the Wiener Stadthalle is shut...
International FootballBradley Barcola, £123m and a Cramp Blown Up Into a "Nightmare"In the 58th minute of his Champions League debut against Atletico Madrid,...
BasketballSM Seaside Arena Cebu and the PBA's Historic Gamble: When the South's Largest Indoor Arena Calls for a Finals StageIn more than thirty years of following professional basketball from the stand...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026 Draw: When a Packed Schedule Decides Badminton FatesI still remember the moment the last slip of paper fell onto the table in...
International FootballThe Seventieth-Minute Zone: Why the Final Twenty Minutes of a Regular Season Belong to the Substitution Window, Not the Hardest RunnerAt minute 78 I wrote a short line in my notebook: the home side's PPDA had...
BadmintonAn Se-young at Aichi-Nagoya: Re-reading Five Lines of Data Behind the Women's Singles GoldThe results sheet I received from Aichi-Nagoya fit into five lines. An Se-you...
Formula 1When Data Is Empty: A Lesson in Honesty in Sports AnalysisI received a seemingly simple request: analyze an article about F1. But when ...
International FootballThe £3,375 Verdict: When Rules Rewrite a Village's HistoryThe FA issued its verdict on Tuesday night. Mulbarton must replay a match the...
International FootballPersib Bandung vs FC Seoul: Why Domestic Statistics Cannot Predict ACL 2On 16 September 2026, the Seoul World Cup Stadium will open its doors for the...
International FootballThe V.League transfer window: money still moves, but no one keeps a public ledgerIn a hotel lobby in Hanoi in the first days of January 2026, an agent opened...
GolfRaiders vs. Chiefs: Patrick Mahomes Found the Gap, Las Vegas Lost Its Own RhythmIn the live feed of the Las Vegas Raiders versus Kansas City Chiefs game, one...
International FootballUmtiti and Yamal: When One Quote Becomes a VerdictOctober 27, 2026, Santiago Bernabéu. Minute 78, Lamine Yamal bends over, hand...
International FootballManchester City 'Found Guilty', Burnham as Prime Minister and Carrick at Man Utd: One Football Gossip Column and How to Read ItOne Monday morning in Shenzhen, I sat in my usual cafe, scrolling through the...
BadmintonPV Sindhu at the 2026 Asian Games: When a Stress Fracture and the Rankings Tell the Same StoryPV Sindhu at the 2026 Asian Games: When a Stress Fracture and the Rankings Te...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: Why Indian badminton went medal-less, and what it says about the depth of a sports nationAichi-Nagoya arena, opening day. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, t...
Martial ArtsPFL Loses Its CEO Seven Weeks After the MVP Merger: When the Buyer Becomes the BoughtIn the summer of 2026, I cut a video analysing the jungle pathing of an...
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...
International FootballRuben van Bommel, the 83rd Minute, and the Problem of a Sample Size of OneIn the 83rd minute on a pitch in Amsterdam, with the score at 1-1 and the...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital: Round Five at Age 39 and the Price That Never Shows on the ScorecardHook Las Vegas, September 26. The clock inside the cage ticked into the fifth...
TennisVienna 2026: Six Top-10 Entries, One Wildcard, and the Limits of the 'Mini Grand Slam' LabelTuesday, eleven in the morning, and the roof of the Wiener Stadthalle is shut...
International FootballBradley Barcola, £123m and a Cramp Blown Up Into a "Nightmare"In the 58th minute of his Champions League debut against Atletico Madrid,...
BasketballSM Seaside Arena Cebu and the PBA's Historic Gamble: When the South's Largest Indoor Arena Calls for a Finals StageIn more than thirty years of following professional basketball from the stand...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026 Draw: When a Packed Schedule Decides Badminton FatesI still remember the moment the last slip of paper fell onto the table in...
International FootballThe Seventieth-Minute Zone: Why the Final Twenty Minutes of a Regular Season Belong to the Substitution Window, Not the Hardest RunnerAt minute 78 I wrote a short line in my notebook: the home side's PPDA had...
BadmintonAn Se-young at Aichi-Nagoya: Re-reading Five Lines of Data Behind the Women's Singles GoldThe results sheet I received from Aichi-Nagoya fit into five lines. An Se-you...
Formula 1When Data Is Empty: A Lesson in Honesty in Sports AnalysisI received a seemingly simple request: analyze an article about F1. But when ...
International FootballThe £3,375 Verdict: When Rules Rewrite a Village's HistoryThe FA issued its verdict on Tuesday night. Mulbarton must replay a match the...
International FootballPersib Bandung vs FC Seoul: Why Domestic Statistics Cannot Predict ACL 2On 16 September 2026, the Seoul World Cup Stadium will open its doors for the...
International FootballThe V.League transfer window: money still moves, but no one keeps a public ledgerIn a hotel lobby in Hanoi in the first days of January 2026, an agent opened...
GolfRaiders vs. Chiefs: Patrick Mahomes Found the Gap, Las Vegas Lost Its Own RhythmIn the live feed of the Las Vegas Raiders versus Kansas City Chiefs game, one...
International FootballUmtiti and Yamal: When One Quote Becomes a VerdictOctober 27, 2026, Santiago Bernabéu. Minute 78, Lamine Yamal bends over, hand...
International FootballManchester City 'Found Guilty', Burnham as Prime Minister and Carrick at Man Utd: One Football Gossip Column and How to Read ItOne Monday morning in Shenzhen, I sat in my usual cafe, scrolling through the...
BadmintonPV Sindhu at the 2026 Asian Games: When a Stress Fracture and the Rankings Tell the Same StoryPV Sindhu at the 2026 Asian Games: When a Stress Fracture and the Rankings Te...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: Why Indian badminton went medal-less, and what it says about the depth of a sports nationAichi-Nagoya arena, opening day. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, t...
