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BasketballOsman Carries 24% of PAOK's Firepower: The 87-79 Win Over Ulm Masks a Free-Throw FlawIn their last four EuroCup games, PAOK have won three. But the 87-79 scorelin...
BasketballPAOK stun Panathinaikos 84-82: the buzzer-beater and the spreadsheet of the last 26 secondsThe clock stopped at 0.0. The board in Thessaloniki read 82 and 84. Cedi...
BasketballPAOK leaves Metsovo for Udine: The Italian trial by fire before the EuroCupWe are used to seeing big teams choose Austria or Switzerland as their...
International FootballHerdman Wants Reinforcements, PSSI Awaits the Paperwork: Indonesia's Naturalization Gamble for the 2027 Asian CupIn a hall of the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) in Jakarta, amid...
Domestic FootballFC Pro Mobile World Championship 2026: Four Vietnamese Players and the Bo3 Trap in the Round of 16Late July, I sat in a rented flat in Busan watching the FVSL Summer 2026 fina...
ChessChess Diplomacy: Modi gifts Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek president and the signal for the fateful match in GenevaChess Diplomacy: Modi gifts Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek presiden...
BasketballChelsea and the Squad Machine: Long Contracts, Amortisation and the Variable Nobody CountsThey train in the late afternoon, after the first team has left the Cobham...
VolleyballWhen Data Falls Silent: The Integrity Battle Inside Volleyball AnalysisThe data table was blank. On my middle monitor in Saigon, an analysis pipelin...
BadmintonNguyen Thuy Linh's 24-22 Game: When a Limit Is Not a WallI remember the moment the scoreboard jumped to 24-22. There was no immediate...
International FootballDefense Is Honored Fear: Lessons from Japanese Football TeamsI have lived in Tokyo for over three decades, and I have witnessed too many...
Table TennisWhen a youth table tennis dossier arrives completely emptyEleven at night in Guangzhou, and my inbox takes delivery of a scouting...
EsportsFaker and the 140,000-Sheet Stamp Run: The Moment a State Put Its Seal on EsportsThere is no face on the stamp. The four designs Korea Post issued on 23 Octob...
Table TennisEmpty Conclusions and the Trap of the Sports Data RoomA file landed on my desk one Saigon morning, while the coffee was still warm....
BasketballVietnamese Basketball Transfer Rumors: When Insider Sources Operate on Empty DataJune, 10:47 p.m., in a small studio in Da Nang, headphones still warm, the...
Domestic FootballHAGL vs SLNA, 17:00 on 23 October: a defence leaking 2.75 goals per game meets the league's unbeaten sideMinute 19, the scoreboard at Pleiku reads 1-1, and HAGL have a man advantage....
VolleyballDecoding AVP League 2026: When Veteran Pairs Rewrite US Beach Volleyball HistoryThe 2026 AVP League season concluded with two dramatic finals on Oak Street...
International FootballOunahi returns to Panathinaikos: A 25-million-euro gamble and the burden of a heroAthens night, the lights of Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium blazed in a short...
International FootballBesiktas Signs Vincenzo Italiano: The Deal That Passed Through Rome, Bologna and NapoliTwo Days in Rome "Onder was in Rome for two days. Then I flew over and sat wi...
EsportsThe Empty Table in Vietnamese Esports: When Silence Gets Read as Safety2:40 AM, Brisbane. The street outside the window is so empty that the sound o...
VolleyballWhen the Women's Volleyball Data Sheet Falls SilentAt two in the morning in Surabaya, I reopened the stat sheet from a women's...
BasketballPAOK stun Panathinaikos 84-82: the buzzer-beater and the spreadsheet of the last 26 secondsThe clock stopped at 0.0. The board in Thessaloniki read 82 and 84. Cedi...
BasketballPAOK leaves Metsovo for Udine: The Italian trial by fire before the EuroCupWe are used to seeing big teams choose Austria or Switzerland as their...
International FootballHerdman Wants Reinforcements, PSSI Awaits the Paperwork: Indonesia's Naturalization Gamble for the 2027 Asian CupIn a hall of the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) in Jakarta, amid...
Domestic FootballFC Pro Mobile World Championship 2026: Four Vietnamese Players and the Bo3 Trap in the Round of 16Late July, I sat in a rented flat in Busan watching the FVSL Summer 2026 fina...
ChessChess Diplomacy: Modi gifts Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek president and the signal for the fateful match in GenevaChess Diplomacy: Modi gifts Sindarov's World Cup scoresheet to Uzbek presiden...
BasketballChelsea and the Squad Machine: Long Contracts, Amortisation and the Variable Nobody CountsThey train in the late afternoon, after the first team has left the Cobham...
VolleyballWhen Data Falls Silent: The Integrity Battle Inside Volleyball AnalysisThe data table was blank. On my middle monitor in Saigon, an analysis pipelin...
BadmintonNguyen Thuy Linh's 24-22 Game: When a Limit Is Not a WallI remember the moment the scoreboard jumped to 24-22. There was no immediate...
International FootballDefense Is Honored Fear: Lessons from Japanese Football TeamsI have lived in Tokyo for over three decades, and I have witnessed too many...
Table TennisWhen a youth table tennis dossier arrives completely emptyEleven at night in Guangzhou, and my inbox takes delivery of a scouting...
EsportsFaker and the 140,000-Sheet Stamp Run: The Moment a State Put Its Seal on EsportsThere is no face on the stamp. The four designs Korea Post issued on 23 Octob...
Table TennisEmpty Conclusions and the Trap of the Sports Data RoomA file landed on my desk one Saigon morning, while the coffee was still warm....
BasketballVietnamese Basketball Transfer Rumors: When Insider Sources Operate on Empty DataJune, 10:47 p.m., in a small studio in Da Nang, headphones still warm, the...
Domestic FootballHAGL vs SLNA, 17:00 on 23 October: a defence leaking 2.75 goals per game meets the league's unbeaten sideMinute 19, the scoreboard at Pleiku reads 1-1, and HAGL have a man advantage....
VolleyballDecoding AVP League 2026: When Veteran Pairs Rewrite US Beach Volleyball HistoryThe 2026 AVP League season concluded with two dramatic finals on Oak Street...
International FootballOunahi returns to Panathinaikos: A 25-million-euro gamble and the burden of a heroAthens night, the lights of Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium blazed in a short...
International FootballBesiktas Signs Vincenzo Italiano: The Deal That Passed Through Rome, Bologna and NapoliTwo Days in Rome "Onder was in Rome for two days. Then I flew over and sat wi...
EsportsThe Empty Table in Vietnamese Esports: When Silence Gets Read as Safety2:40 AM, Brisbane. The street outside the window is so empty that the sound o...
VolleyballWhen the Women's Volleyball Data Sheet Falls SilentAt two in the morning in Surabaya, I reopened the stat sheet from a women's...