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International FootballLamine Yamal's 'quasi-rabona': where Valdano writes literature and football demands dataThe ball arrives at Lamine Yamal's feet on the right touchline, and he does n...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026 Draw: India Projected to Face Japan in Quarter-finals, Korea in SemisWhen the draw slip fell onto the closed meeting table in Aichi-Nagoya, no one...
International FootballAston Villa beat Manchester City: Nicolas Jackson, an old debt, and a win told only by its resultTen minutes after the final whistle at Villa Park. The tunnel down to the...
Domestic FootballThe Two Contracts of Vietnamese FootballThe Two Contracts of Vietnamese Football In July, at the peak of the transfer...
EsportsVCT 2027: 15 Cities, $7 Million and an Open Door Not Everyone Can Walk ThroughOn October 15, Sheep Esports and TheSpike.gg published the VCT 2027 calendar ...
Domestic FootballVietnam U17 at the FIFA U17 World Cup: A Historic Ticket, a Brutal Group, and an Unverified PromiseIn the first two weeks of the camp leading up to the FIFA U17 World Cup, the...
International FootballIndonesia Called FIFA's 'Golden Child': Re-reading the Accusation with Data Before the FinalThe fourth official's board went up in the 90th minute, and most of the crowd...
Martial ArtsDana White's personal assistant Sal Everett earns UFC contract with knockoutSal Everett, a 29-year-old welterweight from Las Vegas, has officially secure...
AthleticsNaomi Korir and the Fifth Place Nobody RecordedIn the nearly empty press room of a stadium in Glasgow, I picked up a results...
International FootballTwo Cracks Before Brentford: Reece James, Joao Pedro and the Test of Chelsea's CharacterOn the morning before the away trip to Brentford, the news arrived in two sho...
International FootballFive Substitutions, the Final 20 Minutes, and the Data Gap in the Premier LeagueOn the night of 24 June 2026, Old Trafford had no spectators. I sat in row...
Domestic FootballV.League 1 and the Youth Development Paradox: Vietnam's Academies Produce Talent, but the League Keeps the First-Team Door ShutOne March afternoon at Thong Nhat Stadium, with the match in the 88th minute...
BadmintonSatwik-Chirag and the 11-21 game: how an Indian pair re-read the match at the China MastersThe first game ended 11-21. Under the rally-scoring system used by the...
VolleyballDakar 2026: Youth Beach Volleyball and the Pool Equation Before First ServeIn mid-October 2037, looking back at the beach volleyball pools for the Dakar...
Table TennisTwo Match Points and a 17-Point Blowout: Castel Goffredo, the Relay Format and an Eighth Supercoppa TitleThe scoreboard stopped at 44–44. Nobody in the hall stood up. On the table...
EsportsVietnamese Esports Faces 'Data Crisis': Analysis Report Reveals Severe Information VoidsIn the fast-evolving global esports industry, the role of data analysis has...
Volleyball18 of 32 Tickets to the 2027 Women's Volleyball World Cup Have Been Claimed: Rewriting the Map of Women's Volleyball Power from Continental ChampionshipsWhen the final of the 2026 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship ended in...
EsportsHimass and TanVuu: Tears on Live Television and the End of a Generation of Vietnamese PUBGThe footage runs longer than thirty seconds. Himass bows his head, his...
International FootballPjanic on Ronaldo and Portugal: the record of a power shiftLate in June, at a sports festival in Toronto, Miralem Pjanic said something...
EsportsChampions Shanghai 2026: All Four VCT China Teams Lose Their Opener as JD Gaming's 1-13 Map Exposes a Preparation GapOn the scoreboard for the Ascent map, the score stopped at 1-13. A single rou...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026 Draw: India Projected to Face Japan in Quarter-finals, Korea in SemisWhen the draw slip fell onto the closed meeting table in Aichi-Nagoya, no one...
International FootballAston Villa beat Manchester City: Nicolas Jackson, an old debt, and a win told only by its resultTen minutes after the final whistle at Villa Park. The tunnel down to the...
Domestic FootballThe Two Contracts of Vietnamese FootballThe Two Contracts of Vietnamese Football In July, at the peak of the transfer...
EsportsVCT 2027: 15 Cities, $7 Million and an Open Door Not Everyone Can Walk ThroughOn October 15, Sheep Esports and TheSpike.gg published the VCT 2027 calendar ...
Domestic FootballVietnam U17 at the FIFA U17 World Cup: A Historic Ticket, a Brutal Group, and an Unverified PromiseIn the first two weeks of the camp leading up to the FIFA U17 World Cup, the...
International FootballIndonesia Called FIFA's 'Golden Child': Re-reading the Accusation with Data Before the FinalThe fourth official's board went up in the 90th minute, and most of the crowd...
Martial ArtsDana White's personal assistant Sal Everett earns UFC contract with knockoutSal Everett, a 29-year-old welterweight from Las Vegas, has officially secure...
AthleticsNaomi Korir and the Fifth Place Nobody RecordedIn the nearly empty press room of a stadium in Glasgow, I picked up a results...
International FootballTwo Cracks Before Brentford: Reece James, Joao Pedro and the Test of Chelsea's CharacterOn the morning before the away trip to Brentford, the news arrived in two sho...
International FootballFive Substitutions, the Final 20 Minutes, and the Data Gap in the Premier LeagueOn the night of 24 June 2026, Old Trafford had no spectators. I sat in row...
Domestic FootballV.League 1 and the Youth Development Paradox: Vietnam's Academies Produce Talent, but the League Keeps the First-Team Door ShutOne March afternoon at Thong Nhat Stadium, with the match in the 88th minute...
BadmintonSatwik-Chirag and the 11-21 game: how an Indian pair re-read the match at the China MastersThe first game ended 11-21. Under the rally-scoring system used by the...
VolleyballDakar 2026: Youth Beach Volleyball and the Pool Equation Before First ServeIn mid-October 2037, looking back at the beach volleyball pools for the Dakar...
Table TennisTwo Match Points and a 17-Point Blowout: Castel Goffredo, the Relay Format and an Eighth Supercoppa TitleThe scoreboard stopped at 44–44. Nobody in the hall stood up. On the table...
EsportsVietnamese Esports Faces 'Data Crisis': Analysis Report Reveals Severe Information VoidsIn the fast-evolving global esports industry, the role of data analysis has...
Volleyball18 of 32 Tickets to the 2027 Women's Volleyball World Cup Have Been Claimed: Rewriting the Map of Women's Volleyball Power from Continental ChampionshipsWhen the final of the 2026 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship ended in...
EsportsHimass and TanVuu: Tears on Live Television and the End of a Generation of Vietnamese PUBGThe footage runs longer than thirty seconds. Himass bows his head, his...
International FootballPjanic on Ronaldo and Portugal: the record of a power shiftLate in June, at a sports festival in Toronto, Miralem Pjanic said something...
EsportsChampions Shanghai 2026: All Four VCT China Teams Lose Their Opener as JD Gaming's 1-13 Map Exposes a Preparation GapOn the scoreboard for the Ascent map, the score stopped at 1-13. A single rou...
