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VolleyballFrom Koriyama to Czestochowa: Seven Fixtures and Three Data Paradoxes in World Volleyball's Densest WeekFour meetings last season, four wins for Hisamitsu Springs. Yet the fourth of...
VolleyballDenso vs Saga: two unbeaten teams in Japan's women's SV.League and a decisive week in world volleyballThe Horaiya Bonds Arena stands will not host a light show on Friday or...
International FootballTwo Hull City players, one road, twenty days: what the accident report leaves unsaidMillhouse Woods Lane is a small road leading into Hull City's training centre...
International FootballEmpty Data and the Verification Principle: Lessons from a Football Analysis PipelineEMPTY DATA AND THE VERIFICATION PRINCIPLE: LESSONS FROM A FOOTBALL ANALYSIS...
Table Tennis2026 U.S. Open Table Tennis: 118 Events and the Membership Card That Decides Who PlaysOn the event-registration board for the 2026 U.S. Open sits a line most reade...
SwimmingBehind a Coaching Vacancy in Zionsville: The American Swim Machine and the Hours No One CountsThe notice runs less than a page. Zionsville Swim Club is hiring a full-time...
Domestic FootballMalaysia's Passport Forgery Scandal: Seven Naturalized Players Banned 12 Months, FAM Still Nominated by AFCOn my desk in Paris sits a folder barely two centimetres thick, and it contai...
Martial ArtsTwo Scorecards, One Fighter: How the Classification Line Is Reshaping Muay ThaiAt the Rajadamnern scale on the evening of March 14, 2026, Nguyen Truong Hai...
Domestic FootballVietnamese Football and the Data Gap: What Is Still Missing to Step Into AsiaThe match ended in the 94th minute. The score was 1-0, and in the press room...
BasketballLi Yueru's Lost Passport: When Chinese Basketball Shoots Itself in the FootThey call me the disruptor. I'm just listening to the squeak of the wheel. An...
BadmintonThe Unlocked Door of Vietnamese Badminton: When Ashes Still Write LegendsThere was a moment on a Copenhagen August night that I still keep in the meta...
International FootballPersib 1-0 Persik: The Corner Routine Repeated Twice and Maung Bandung's Only DoorAt minute 88, Thom Haye walked to the left corner arc again, placed the ball,...
VolleyballPitt Panthers Rise to No. 1: The 4-0 Start and the Unanswered Questions in the DataThe opening week of NCAA Division I women's volleyball ended, and the NCAA.co...
Table TennisTT Kidz and England's Choice to Widen the Base of the PyramidSaigon, a Tuesday evening. I am sitting in the back row of a small table tenn...
International FootballDeep Analysis of Vietnamese Football: Data Gaps and Lessons from the Analytical PipelineIn the context of Vietnamese football receiving increasing attention and...
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 FootballTelstar vs Feyenoord: The 57th-Minute Penalty, VAR and the Gap Between Handball Law and Public ExpectationTelstar hosted Feyenoord, and the match reached the 57th minute with every...
International FootballArsenal's start is two points better than their title-winning season: what the data says and what it hidesIn the seventh minute at the Emirates, the scoreboard jumped from 0-0 to 1-0....
BadmintonPV Sindhu at Asian Games 2026: Five Rivals and a Crack Named An Se-youngDA NANG — In an eleven-second clip I still keep on my machine from the Japan...
Domestic FootballWhen There Is Nothing to Analyse: Lessons from a Failed Football Data PipelineThere is a moment in this profession that I learned in Nagoya, when the stadi...
VolleyballDenso vs Saga: two unbeaten teams in Japan's women's SV.League and a decisive week in world volleyballThe Horaiya Bonds Arena stands will not host a light show on Friday or...
International FootballTwo Hull City players, one road, twenty days: what the accident report leaves unsaidMillhouse Woods Lane is a small road leading into Hull City's training centre...
International FootballEmpty Data and the Verification Principle: Lessons from a Football Analysis PipelineEMPTY DATA AND THE VERIFICATION PRINCIPLE: LESSONS FROM A FOOTBALL ANALYSIS...
Table Tennis2026 U.S. Open Table Tennis: 118 Events and the Membership Card That Decides Who PlaysOn the event-registration board for the 2026 U.S. Open sits a line most reade...
SwimmingBehind a Coaching Vacancy in Zionsville: The American Swim Machine and the Hours No One CountsThe notice runs less than a page. Zionsville Swim Club is hiring a full-time...
Domestic FootballMalaysia's Passport Forgery Scandal: Seven Naturalized Players Banned 12 Months, FAM Still Nominated by AFCOn my desk in Paris sits a folder barely two centimetres thick, and it contai...
Martial ArtsTwo Scorecards, One Fighter: How the Classification Line Is Reshaping Muay ThaiAt the Rajadamnern scale on the evening of March 14, 2026, Nguyen Truong Hai...
Domestic FootballVietnamese Football and the Data Gap: What Is Still Missing to Step Into AsiaThe match ended in the 94th minute. The score was 1-0, and in the press room...
BasketballLi Yueru's Lost Passport: When Chinese Basketball Shoots Itself in the FootThey call me the disruptor. I'm just listening to the squeak of the wheel. An...
BadmintonThe Unlocked Door of Vietnamese Badminton: When Ashes Still Write LegendsThere was a moment on a Copenhagen August night that I still keep in the meta...
International FootballPersib 1-0 Persik: The Corner Routine Repeated Twice and Maung Bandung's Only DoorAt minute 88, Thom Haye walked to the left corner arc again, placed the ball,...
VolleyballPitt Panthers Rise to No. 1: The 4-0 Start and the Unanswered Questions in the DataThe opening week of NCAA Division I women's volleyball ended, and the NCAA.co...
Table TennisTT Kidz and England's Choice to Widen the Base of the PyramidSaigon, a Tuesday evening. I am sitting in the back row of a small table tenn...
International FootballDeep Analysis of Vietnamese Football: Data Gaps and Lessons from the Analytical PipelineIn the context of Vietnamese football receiving increasing attention and...
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 FootballTelstar vs Feyenoord: The 57th-Minute Penalty, VAR and the Gap Between Handball Law and Public ExpectationTelstar hosted Feyenoord, and the match reached the 57th minute with every...
International FootballArsenal's start is two points better than their title-winning season: what the data says and what it hidesIn the seventh minute at the Emirates, the scoreboard jumped from 0-0 to 1-0....
BadmintonPV Sindhu at Asian Games 2026: Five Rivals and a Crack Named An Se-youngDA NANG — In an eleven-second clip I still keep on my machine from the Japan...
Domestic FootballWhen There Is Nothing to Analyse: Lessons from a Failed Football Data PipelineThere is a moment in this profession that I learned in Nagoya, when the stadi...
