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VolleyballSMU Ends Pitt's 58-Match Home Streak: Decoding the Battle at the NetThe third set ran to 38-36. In American collegiate volleyball, the win-by-two...
International FootballThree Forest-Fire Banners in the North Stand of Si Jalak Harupat, and the Corner That Kept Persib's Three PointsIn the North Stand of Si Jalak Harupat, the third banner went up about four...
BasketballEleven Empty Fields and a Lowercase basketball: Lessons From an Analysis File With No Player in ItNew York, two in the morning. I open a file that was supposed to be an articl...
International FootballWhen the System Called El Chapo a Footballer: Wrong Labels and How We Misread a MatchOn the hard drive in my Hamburg office sits a text file labelled "football" o...
SwimmingThe 0.69-Second Gap That Defines Maddie Loken's CareerSummer in Nagoya. My Saturday mornings always begin with short-course swimmin...
ChessA Diplomatic Gift and the Generational Revolution in Chess: When Modi Presented Sindarov's Scoresheet to the Uzbek PresidentThe scoresheet was still intact, with the handwritten strokes preserved. An...
Table TennisFootsteps on the Wooden Floor: Lam Triet Vu and the Shot That Never Appears on the ScoreboardIn the corner of training court number seven at the Shanghai youth training...
Table TennisCadet BCL 2026/27: £115 a Team, 260 Cadet Squads and the Base Layer That Decides English Table TennisA Deadline, a Fee, and a League With No Points The deadline is Wednesday 28...
International FootballSixteen Years After the Sparring Session: Fury, Joshua and the Story Revived Ahead of the WBA Title Fight in CardiffInside the press-conference room in Cardiff, when a reporter brought up the...
AthleticsQuach Thi Lan and Vietnam's 4x400m Relay Dilemma at Asiad 20: When Asian Status Is Defined by Speed, Not MedalsI opened my tactical notebook on the morning of September 29, while the...
Domestic FootballVietnam U15 in Azerbaijan: Group R, 8v8 Laws and Seven Days for Five MatchesOn 21 October, the Vietnam U15 delegation left Hanoi. Three days later, on 24...
BadmintonKunlavut Vitidsarn and the Asian Games 2026 Treble: Reading a Champion's Body Through 21-12, 21-16The final score appears on the electronic board: 21-12, 21-16. Two games. No...
ChessLe Quang Liem's Chessboard: When Geometry Speaks at the Prague MastersPeople often say chess is a sport of dry numbers. But I, after many years...
International FootballV-League, VAR and the Lesson of an Empty Data SheetOn the summary sheet produced after a V-League match this season, the line...
AthleticsMahnoor Fatima and Sindh's first gold: what sits behind 32:32.40On the track at NED University in Karachi, the first woman across the line in...
BilliardsAllison Fisher: Pool Pioneer Retires After Parkinson's Diagnosis — Seven World Snooker Titles and the 2026 Cross-Discipline Move"The invisible contract only reveals itself when we count every number instea...
Martial ArtsAsiad Diary: Vietnam's Nine Brackets and the Silence Before the Referee's SignalOn the schedule board hastily taped up in the arena corridor, there was a sma...
International FootballWhen Football Is No Longer Football: Lessons from a Classification ErrorI remember sitting in the newsroom, staring at a screen where an article...
Table TennisRob Davies and Britain's 13 Para Table Tennis Players: A Quiet Springboard in Murcia Before NovemberThere are things I only noticed after years of sitting in the farthest rows o...
VolleyballSMU Ends Pitt's 58-Match Home Streak: When the Block Speaks Instead of the ScoreboardI sat in front of the screen at 3 a.m. Incheon time, my coffee long cold, and...