essex
Martial ArtsA Blank Dossier Before the Bell: Vietnamese Combat Sports Need a Decent Data SystemEleven at night, before a fight card in Ho Chi Minh City, I opened the dossie...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: The Badminton Draw and the Risk Map Nobody Wants to DrawIn 2026, I stood on the medal podium at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium and misread...
AthleticsVietnamese Athletics at the 2026 Asian Games: The Age Curve and the Void After the Jakarta 2026 Golden GenerationOver the past three weeks I reopened my athlete-file tracker for Vietnam's...
International FootballTwenty Crosses and a Point Won in SilenceOn Thể Công - Viettel's home ground there was a moment that would slip past y...
Table TennisZhang Yining and the North Macedonia Visit: When Chinese Table Tennis Exports Its System to the BalkansOn 7 September, according to an announcement by the European Table Tennis Uni...
EsportsWhen Analysis Has No Data: Lessons on Transparency in Vietnamese EsportsA deep analysis of 9 dimensions, but all sections are empty – no tournament...
Domestic FootballU23 Vietnam vs U23 South Korea in Nagoya: The Match That Will Be Decided After the 60th MinuteIn the tunnel leading out to Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya, a 1.95m...
TennisUS Open Opening Week: 846,000 Average Viewers, a 2.2 Million Peak — What the Data Says About the Williams Sisters' PullAt 10:05 p.m. on Friday, August 29, I put my phone face-down and turned to th...
International FootballTrabzonspor and Ertuğrul Doğan: Decoding a 14-Billion-Lira Restructuring Between Gold and SnowI remember that evening in August 2026. On the Şenol Güneş stand, the old sig...
TennisWuhan: Swiatek's 40th Win of the Season and the Night Svitolina Almost Lost HerselfCourt four at the Wuhan Tennis Center was empty at 6:40 a.m. on October 14,...
Domestic FootballVietnam U23 vs Philippines U23 at 13:30: Three Points and the Silence Before the Ball RollsThe match is scheduled for 13:30. An odd slot for afternoon football, when th...
International FootballThe Surveyor's Discipline: The Value of a Null Result in FootballThat night I stayed in the office until nearly two in the morning, just to...
VolleyballDisney World and the Problem of Proving Worth: The 2026 ACC-SEC Showdown Is More Than VolleyballThe final stride always begins at the starting line of an afternoon no one...
International FootballHamdallah likely to miss Al-Taawoun clash against Al-Hilal due to hamstring injuryAbderrazak Hamdallah is increasingly unlikely to feature in Al-Taawoun's Saud...
EsportsBLAST Slam VIII: The Last Chance Stage, Three Lopsided Scores and the Playoff Bracket StructureGame one ended 40-10 in favor of GamerLegion. Game two closed 28-1 for LGD....
International FootballDe Laurentiis, Napoli and the Power Audit Nobody Has SignedROME — On September 23, at the Foreign Press Association awards in Rome,...
VolleyballShowdown at the Net 2026: ACC and SEC Bet Their Reputations on 16 Exhibition MatchesWhen the NCAA Division I women's volleyball schedule announced the Shriners...
EsportsVietnamese Football: Data Discipline and the Cost of Hasty ConclusionsOn my screen that night, three lines of data appeared: 0.72 — 1.08 — 26. The...
AthleticsThe Silent Gap: The Craft of Athletics Analysis and the Trap of Empty ConclusionsAt the closing stretch of the 5,000 metres at Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, th...
Volleyball2026 Shriners Children's Showdown at the Net: ACC vs SEC Clash at Disney WorldThe 2026 Shriners Children's Showdown at the Net will take place on September...
