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Napoli, Nine Matches in a Month and a Single Shot: The Success Metric Has Been RewrittenThere is a line I copied verbatim into my notebook during the press conferenc...
23 Minutes and a Blocked Labyrinth: Estevao, Chelsea and a Central Corridor With No ExitEvery match is a labyrinth; I only redraw the map. But some labyrinths are no...
Karim Lopez and the Memphis Grizzlies Gamble: Eight Preseason Minutes, an Unfinished NBA DreamKarim Lopez, a Mexican basketball player chasing a full roster spot with the...
Nebraska Tops the NCAA Committee's First 2026 Top 16: Reading the Ranking Through Schedule Strength, Not Win-Loss RecordsNine wins, six losses. Fifteen wins, one loss. Put those two records on the...
Para Table Tennis at Asian Para Games 2026: Bhavina Patel and Subham Wadhwa Take XD7 Bronze as Chougule and Savita Squander a 2-0 Lead in XD17The third game of the XD17 mixed doubles quarterfinal at the Asian Para Games...
Vietnamese Table Tennis and Its Biggest Fear: An Analysis Built on NothingLast night I reopened a table tennis analysis that ran dozens of pages. In th...
AVC Beach Volleyball Championships underway in China, set to issue Asia's tickets to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic GamesThe AVC Beach Volleyball Championships are underway in Shangluo, China, from...
An Se-young Wins Back-to-Back Asian Games Gold: A 21-9 Second Game, and a Gold Medal With No Prize PurseGame one ended 21-17. Game two ended 21-9. In the women's singles badminton...
Wales 2-1 Norway: A Narrow Win and the Trap of SafetyThe final whistle blew in Cardiff and the stands erupted. Wales beat Norway 2...
Carlsen Returns, $1 Million and a Crushing Schedule: Global Chess League 2026 Is More Than Just a TournamentOne million dollars in prize money, six franchise teams, nine days of...
Asian Games 2026: PV Sindhu and Five Rivals — The Head-to-Head Matrix Points to an Ending Nobody Wants to WriteIn PV Sindhu's head-to-head ledger against the players billed as her main...
India Beat New Zealand at AVC 2026: Quarterfinal Berth Hinges on Oman–BahrainJerome Vinith Charles closed Tuesday night in Fukuoka with 19 points, two kil...
Barcelona 95-82 Besiktas: Nobody Reached 20 Points, and That Is Where the Story BeginsOn the scoreboard hanging in Istanbul, not a single name reached 20 points....
The Blank Sheet in the Analysis Room: How Modern Football Invents ItselfIn June 2026, in a rented meeting room in Lyon's 7th arrondissement, a...
Faker Gets His Own Postage Stamps: South Korea Formalizes an Esports Player as National AssetOn 21 October, in an exhibition hall of a national museum in Seoul, an enlarg...
50-metre or 25-metre pool: the biggest blind spot in Vietnamese swimming coverageOn my desk in Nha Trang there is a spreadsheet that has stayed open for four...
The 'Attractive Football' Promise and the Trap of Empty Data: A Tactical Puzzle Before the First Division KickoffOnly a few days remain until September 11, and a Vietnamese First Division cl...
2026 AVC Men's Volleyball Asian Championship Begins in Fukuoka: Japan the Favorite for Olympic 2028The 2026 AVC Men's Volleyball Asian Championship will officially begin in...
Capello tells Italy: Stop the sideways passes, add verticality and crossesFabio Capello has just opened a surgical operation on the biggest sports...
ChessBase Magazine No. 225: 27 Short Games, the Name Bent Larsen, and the Data Gap on the Cover27 short games. That is the most concrete number in the entire promotional...
