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International FootballFour Minutes in Eight Matches and a Bill Over €80 Million: Endrick's January FileFour minutes. That is the entirety of Endrick's playing time in La Liga this...
International FootballEstevao Growing Impatient at Chelsea, Joao Felix Dreaming of Barcelona: Two Deals, One Truth Nobody Wants to HearMonday night, I sat in my small apartment in Osaka and opened Sport on my iPa...
International FootballBrentford 3-0 Chelsea: The Match Split in Two, and the Second Half Was a LamentThere was a moment in the 61st minute that I rewound no fewer than ten times,...
Table TennisNine Empty Fields and the Temptation to Invent Numbers: Vietnamese Table Tennis and the Input-Data Problem11:40 p.m., a small flat in Shenzhen. I reopen the report file I drafted that...
Domestic FootballThailand extends Coach Anthony Hudson to 2029: A Stability Bet Before the Showdown with VietnamOn September 29, at My Dinh National Stadium, Vietnam will host Thailand in t...
Chess5.e5 — The 60-Minute Move and an Unmarked Data TestThe clock ticked past the thirty-seventh second. On the screen, White had jus...
Martial ArtsMuay Thai Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: A 63.5 kg Ceiling and the Gaps in the RulebookThe men's weight-class list for Muay Thai at Vietnam's 2026 National Sports...
International FootballThe 0.78 xG Equation: Vietnamese Football at the Data Frontier After Rajamangala0.78. That is the total xG – expected goals – of the Vietnam national team in...
VolleyballAVC 2026 Quarterfinals: Australia Coolly Secures Semifinal Spot, Korea Overturns China with Final-Set Punch — And the Big Question Mark Over the Semifinal PairingsThere are numbers so strange they force you to stop and stare. In the two AVC...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: Women’s Marathon and the Ripple After a Historic DoubleSydney, August 30, 2026. Peres Jepchirchir crossed the finish line at the...
VolleyballUSA, Canada and Cuba Seal 2027 World Championship Berths: The 108-108 Final and a Miswritten NameMilan, late autumn. I open the recording of the men's final in Moncton, New...
International FootballWhen the Lights of the 2026 World Cup Went Out, the Transfer Market Started to Tell the TruthThe night of July 19, 2026, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey...
Domestic FootballV.League Buys Strikers, Vietnam Borrows One: The Cost of an Owner-Funded ModelJanuary 5, 2026, Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok, minute 32. Nguyen Xuan Son...
VolleyballFinland Beat Italy 3-2 in Turin: A 2027 World Cup Berth Built on Four PointsFifth set, 14-13. The ball went to the wing, hit the floor, and the Turin cro...
International FootballA Report Full of Labels and Empty of Substance: Football Writing in the Silence of DataOn my desk, in a small apartment in southern Shenzhen, the screen has just...
Domestic FootballVietnam U17: Twenty-Nine Names, Seven New Faces and the Gap Nobody Was Called Up to FillOn September 17, a list of twenty-nine names left the headquarters of the...
Domestic FootballVFF 2027-2031 election: three candidates and the 600-1,000 billion VND annual funding equationThe list of nominations for the 10th term (2027-2031) published by the Vietna...
Domestic FootballVietnam Doesn't Lack Strikers — the V.League Won't Let Them GrowOn the pitch at Mỹ Đình on the night of March 26, 2026, three goals conceded...
BadmintonLakshya Sen and the 'Golden Path' at Asian Games 2026: When a Beautiful Narrative Meets Cold DataThe number 7-4 sits at the top of the statistics table, beautiful and...
International FootballMbeumo's Four, Bruno's Hat-Trick, and the Silence From Everyone ElseAt the Metropolitano, United's net rippled inside the first minute. I was...
International FootballEstevao Growing Impatient at Chelsea, Joao Felix Dreaming of Barcelona: Two Deals, One Truth Nobody Wants to HearMonday night, I sat in my small apartment in Osaka and opened Sport on my iPa...
International FootballBrentford 3-0 Chelsea: The Match Split in Two, and the Second Half Was a LamentThere was a moment in the 61st minute that I rewound no fewer than ten times,...
Table TennisNine Empty Fields and the Temptation to Invent Numbers: Vietnamese Table Tennis and the Input-Data Problem11:40 p.m., a small flat in Shenzhen. I reopen the report file I drafted that...
Domestic FootballThailand extends Coach Anthony Hudson to 2029: A Stability Bet Before the Showdown with VietnamOn September 29, at My Dinh National Stadium, Vietnam will host Thailand in t...
Chess5.e5 — The 60-Minute Move and an Unmarked Data TestThe clock ticked past the thirty-seventh second. On the screen, White had jus...
Martial ArtsMuay Thai Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: A 63.5 kg Ceiling and the Gaps in the RulebookThe men's weight-class list for Muay Thai at Vietnam's 2026 National Sports...
International FootballThe 0.78 xG Equation: Vietnamese Football at the Data Frontier After Rajamangala0.78. That is the total xG – expected goals – of the Vietnam national team in...
VolleyballAVC 2026 Quarterfinals: Australia Coolly Secures Semifinal Spot, Korea Overturns China with Final-Set Punch — And the Big Question Mark Over the Semifinal PairingsThere are numbers so strange they force you to stop and stare. In the two AVC...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: Women’s Marathon and the Ripple After a Historic DoubleSydney, August 30, 2026. Peres Jepchirchir crossed the finish line at the...
VolleyballUSA, Canada and Cuba Seal 2027 World Championship Berths: The 108-108 Final and a Miswritten NameMilan, late autumn. I open the recording of the men's final in Moncton, New...
International FootballWhen the Lights of the 2026 World Cup Went Out, the Transfer Market Started to Tell the TruthThe night of July 19, 2026, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey...
Domestic FootballV.League Buys Strikers, Vietnam Borrows One: The Cost of an Owner-Funded ModelJanuary 5, 2026, Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok, minute 32. Nguyen Xuan Son...
VolleyballFinland Beat Italy 3-2 in Turin: A 2027 World Cup Berth Built on Four PointsFifth set, 14-13. The ball went to the wing, hit the floor, and the Turin cro...
International FootballA Report Full of Labels and Empty of Substance: Football Writing in the Silence of DataOn my desk, in a small apartment in southern Shenzhen, the screen has just...
Domestic FootballVietnam U17: Twenty-Nine Names, Seven New Faces and the Gap Nobody Was Called Up to FillOn September 17, a list of twenty-nine names left the headquarters of the...
Domestic FootballVFF 2027-2031 election: three candidates and the 600-1,000 billion VND annual funding equationThe list of nominations for the 10th term (2027-2031) published by the Vietna...
Domestic FootballVietnam Doesn't Lack Strikers — the V.League Won't Let Them GrowOn the pitch at Mỹ Đình on the night of March 26, 2026, three goals conceded...
BadmintonLakshya Sen and the 'Golden Path' at Asian Games 2026: When a Beautiful Narrative Meets Cold DataThe number 7-4 sits at the top of the statistics table, beautiful and...
International FootballMbeumo's Four, Bruno's Hat-Trick, and the Silence From Everyone ElseAt the Metropolitano, United's net rippled inside the first minute. I was...
