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TennisChengdu Open: Brooksby reaches quarterfinals in a week when serving ruledOne evening in Chengdu, Jenson Brooksby left the court with a wet towel drape...
SwimmingSeven Empty Slots at Texas A&M: When the Scoreboard Goes Quiet, the Story Sits on the Entry SheetOn October 10, on the board at Georgia's pool, the score stopped at 78–222. N...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Martial Arts in Transfer Season: The Real Pulse Lies Beneath the Training MatAt 5:40 in the morning, the second-floor training room of a martial arts club...
Domestic FootballVietnam U20 vs Palestine U20: A Do-or-Die Clash Where Character Is Measured in Unseen RunsViet Tri Stadium has no noisy atmosphere of a final this afternoon, but the a...
International FootballEmpty Scouting Reports: The Blind Spot Warping Vietnam's Youth Talent ValuationThe fourteenth page of the report was still uncomfortably clean. The tables...
VolleyballMoriya's Return After 11 Months: 61 Jumps and the Lesson of 214 Survey ResponsesAt 22-22 in the fourth set, Kenta Moriya took his approach from the three-met...
International FootballThe Empty Data Sheet and the Night Watchmen of Vietnamese FootballIn early July, I opened a nine-dimension analysis sent by a colleague. Eleven...
Table TennisLjubljana 2026: Four Winning Mechanisms in the Men's Round of 16 and the Limits of Game-Score DataPatrick Franziska led 10-6 in the third game. He lost it 11-13. In the fourth...
International FootballBarcelona Ties Pedro Rodríguez to 2030: Reading an 18-Year-Old Midfielder's RenewalJune 30, 2030 is a milestone further away than any competition, further away...
Table TennisSheffield 2026: The Hidden Selection Machine of World Table Tennis and the 36 Children Being Bet OnOn an afternoon in Sheffield, when the ball stops rolling between two rallies...
International FootballWhen 'Soccer' Fooled the Machine: Data Lessons for Vietnamese FootballNineteen data points. None of them contained football. An article about actor...
International FootballManchester United: The Ballad of Interim HeroesIn the cramped press room at Carrington, the yellowish fluorescent lights cas...
EsportsInside the VCS transfer window: wage bills, release clauses and the empty cellsIn the first week the VCS transfer window opened, I logged 27 names attached ...
International FootballThe Empty Report: When Football Analysis Has Nothing Left to AnalyseThree in the morning in Shenzhen. I open a football analysis file: nine...
International FootballThe Second Yellow at Half-TimeThe Second Yellow at Half-Time: When a German Referee Re-Read His Own Mistake...
International FootballCurry's Non-Contact Ankle Roll and Golden State's Structural Fault Line Before Opening NightIn an open practice at Chase Center on October 18, 2026, Stephen Curry rolled...
BasketballSoutheast Asia's Transfer Window: When Contracts Are Empty, the Signal Is in the SilenceAt one in the morning on August 13, 2026, my phone buzzed in Penang. An...
EsportsWhen a 2,000-word sports analysis says nothing: Lessons on the limits of dataA sports analysis piece two thousand words long can contain how many...
EsportsPatch 26.22: Riot Removes Mel's Reflect, Trading One Ability for Another RoleIn a game I rewatched three times, Jhin charged his fourth shot. The red bull...
Martial ArtsVietnam's 2026 World Poomsae Gold: The Medal Was Decided Not by the Feet, but by a Name That Got SwappedThat afternoon in Chuncheon, as the referee called the pair onto the mat, I...
