Nikola BartunkovaNikola Bartunkova
International FootballJapan 3-0 Thailand at the Asian Games: The Shonan Bellmare Left Flank and the Data Gap Nobody FilledA 3-0 Win and a Gap in the Data What stopped me after Japan's 3-0 win over...
ChessPin and Win: The Endgame Teacher Behind the ChampionIn the near-empty hall of a chess club in Hamburg, on an October afternoon, I...
International FootballFrench Football and the Transfer Equation: Decoding the Financial Currents of Ligue 1My phone rang at 1:47 in the morning, Lyon time. On the other end was an agen...
VolleyballIndonesia's Volleyball Medal Dream: A Contract of BeliefI remember that night in Nagoya, sitting in front of the screen with a cup of...
SwimmingLukas Dunn Breaks Australian Age Record in 200m IM Short Course: 1:54.73 and the Unanswered QuestionOn Thursday morning, Lukas Dunn touched the wall in the 200m individual medle...
International FootballVietnam After the 2026 ASEAN Cup: Three Data Anomalies and an Unnamed Structural Hole2:47 a.m. Chengdu was quiet enough that I could hear the elevator in the...
International FootballThe Discipline of the Blank Page: Why Youth Football Scouts Must Learn to Say 'I Don't Know Yet'2 a.m. in Beijing. Winter. On my laptop screen is an analysis report with nin...
BasketballWhen an Empty File Lands on the Desk: 27 Player Profiles and a Morning Without Numbers27 profiles landed on my desk, and what I smelled was not risk. It was...
International FootballBehind Every Contract: The Transfer Market and the People No One SeesThere was a July evening when I sat in a small café in Guangzhou, and my phon...
International FootballBirmingham City Appoint John Murtough: A Director of Football Chair Empty for Nearly Five MonthsNext Monday, after Birmingham City leave the Cardiff City Stadium, the most...
EsportsThe 7.1 Banner and the Gacha Machine: An Industry View of a Revenue Stream That Needs No TournamentIn the final three weeks of Genshin Impact's version 7.0, a familiar ritual...
BadmintonAn Se-young at the 2026 Asian Games: A Record Dossier and the Scratches Left on the NumbersThe second game of the 2026 Asian Games women's singles badminton final in...
Esports93% Positive on Steam: Modern Warfare 4 Shows a Strong Signal but Does Not Yet Prove Call of Duty’s ReturnOn the Steam page for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, the review band turned...
Table TennisWhen the Track Crosses the Table Tennis Arena: Lessons from an Empty Analysis Pipeline and How Vietnam Can Build an Uncontaminated Sports Data SystemThere is a moment that any sports journalist has experienced: you sit in fron...
Table TennisThe Empty Scouting File: Why Youth Table Tennis Analysts Must Learn to Say "Not Enough Evidence"That afternoon the provincial hall had only four tables set up and perhaps...
Domestic FootballV.League After the ASEAN Title: What the Scoreboard Never TellsV.League After the ASEAN Title: What the Scoreboard Never Tells Late October,...
International FootballManchester United head to the Metropolitano with a hollowed-out spine: How injuries redraw the map of a big matchThree in the afternoon at the Carrington training complex, I sat in the small...
BadmintonSindhu vs An Se Young in the French Open 2026 final: reading the 10-0 head-to-head through match dataGame three, 15-16. PV Sindhu served, and the next six points all went her way...
AthleticsAgnes Ngetich and the 1:05:15 Run: One Second That Rewrote the Women's Half Marathon RecordHook: One Second Before the Copenhagen Finish Line Copenhagen. A sunny mornin...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: India Brings 20 Badminton Shuttlers to Aichi-Nagoya, and the Weight Rests on One PairIn October 2026, I sat in the seventh row of an arena in Hangzhou, and the...
