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BadmintonIndia's 20-Strong Badminton Squad for Asian Games 2026: Ambition to Repeat Hangzhou GoldThe Asian Games 2026 will take place in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, from September 1...
BadmintonIndia at the Asian Games 2026: The Unplayed Symphony of Twenty RacquetsLast June, when the Badminton Association of India (BAI) announced the...
VolleyballAnalysis of Tactics and Data in Vietnamese Women's Volleyball: The Need for Improved SystemsVietnamese women's volleyball is facing many major challenges in collecting a...
Martial ArtsThe Fall of "El Búho": A 75-Year-Old Referee, a Disputed Move, and the Legal Vacuum of Lucha LibreThe night in Guangzhou is so sealed that even a heartbeat has to practice...
Domestic FootballThe V.League Transfer Window: Buy-Obligation Clauses and Wage Structure Are the Real StoryOn my desk in Saigon sits a three-page loan agreement. The most important...
International FootballPPDA and the Final 20 Minutes: The Pressing Map V.League Refuses to ReadOver the last three rounds, the PPDA of a team long regarded as V.League's...
Table TennisBrussels and the Scoreless Friendship Night: When Table Tennis Becomes a China-EU Diplomatic LanguageAt the Royal Alpa Table Tennis Club in Brussels, on a November evening, there...
BasketballVictor Oladipo's Open Letter to NBA GMs: A Final Plea from a Faded Star?I watched Victor Oladipo's G League game footage three times before writing...
ChessThe First Move of a Generation: When the Benko Gambit Returns to the Modern BoardIn a seventh-round game at an open tournament in Da Nang last month, a young...
Table TennisFour Divisions, Sixteen Under-16 Players and a Trip to the Faroes: The Development Map of Isle of Wight Table TennisOn the evening of 4 September, at the annual presentation evening of the Isle...
EsportsPUBG Removes Vietnamese From Language List: When a Showmatch Becomes a Career Death Sentence for Two PlayersDuring the third day of PUBG Asia Stars 2026, I sat in the host booth with a...
International FootballAngulo's Torn Shirt and the 'Japan Wall' Trap: Analyzing Segu's One-on-One DefenseIn the 35th minute of the second half, during the friendly between Japan and...
BadmintonMahoor Shahzad: 23 Minutes at the Asian Games and the Gap Pakistan Cannot HideWhen I rewatch the match between Mahoor Shahzad and Putri Kusuma Wardani, the...
ChessPM Modi gifts Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek president: Chess becomes diplomatic bridgeFrom the touchline, I see the whole match. Today there is no match on the...
Domestic FootballThree stadiums, 265,000 seats, and the gap nobody measuresI stayed in my seat after a V.League match at My Dinh, waiting for the stands...
BasketballBen Simmons and the Sacramento Kings: A $3.5 Million Gamble from the Data DumpHook When Shams Charania tweeted "Ben Simmons agrees to a 1-year, $3.5 millio...
VolleyballAsiad 20: China vs Japan and the Women's Volleyball Final That Redefines a DynastyIn the fifth set of the women's volleyball semifinal between China and Thaila...
Domestic FootballDinh Bac's Injury: How Vietnamese Football Pushes Its Own Asset Into the FireAt the 67th minute at Jalan Besar, Singapore, Nguyen Dinh Bac sat down on the...
BadmintonAn Se-young and the 21-9 Final in Aichi: The Glory Has Arrived, the Knee's Debt Has NotThe scoreboard at the Aichi-Nagoya arena read 21-9 on the evening of Septembe...
International FootballA 'Football'-Labelled Dossier With Not a Single Line of Football: The Two-Source Standard and the Right to Say 'Insufficient Data'On Tuesday evening I opened a dossier labelled "football". I expected a match...
