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Vietnam U17 lose 1-4 in Seoul: the invoice for a development gambleOn the morning of 21 October, when the fourth goal went in, no roar answered...
ASIAD 2026: The 0.001-Point Gap and Vietnam Athletics' Relay Gamble0.001 points. One thousandth of a point in the women's vault final, and 0.1 i...
An Empty File on the Desk: The Discipline of Data in Table Tennis JournalismA table tennis analysis file was placed on my desk this morning. I opened it,...
Adou Minh and Williams Minh Hoang: Two Diaspora Call-Ups and the Lines Nobody VerifiedIn the 25-name squad list released ahead of the regional tournament, two line...
Aubrial MacKay Commits to Texas: Reading Four Gaps Between Short Course and Long CourseIn the women's 200-meter butterfly final at Winter Juniors East 2026, Aubrial...
Vietnamese Basketball and the 'No-Data Analysis' Trap: Lessons for Sports MediaIn an editorial meeting in Da Nang, my editor placed a two-page analysis in...
When the Tennis Data Feed Returns Nothing: The Discipline of Not Inventing NumbersThe spreadsheet opens with nine rows. Every row has a heading: technical and...
FIFA ASEAN Cup 2026: Broadcast Rights, the September Window, and the Gaps Nobody ReadsIn Melbourne, every Tuesday morning, I keep an old habit: reopening FIFA's...
Chess Olympiad 2026: India defends its throne in Samarkand, and the Gukesh – Sindarov duel is already in the airIn September 2026, Samarkand, the ancient city on the Silk Road, will host th...
An Se-young and That 21-9 Second Game: What the Data Says About Her Second Straight Asian Games GoldOn 29 September 2026, in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, the second game of the Asian...
The One-Handed Backhand: A Dying Art or Waiting for a Revolution?It has been 1,467 days since Dominic Thiem lifted the US Open 2026 trophy, th...
Laver Cup: Alcaraz Saves Two Match Points as Team Europe Lead 7-5, and the Sunday Three-Point ProblemOn the thirteenth point of the deciding tiebreak, Carlos Alcaraz stood behind...
When the Training Ground Has No News: The Transfer Window and the Trap of Fabricated SpecificityThe third session of the week, and Chengdu's sky hung grey like an old...
Vietnam 1-2 Chinese Taipei: Two Goals Conceded from Centre-Back Errors and a Left Flank MisplacedIn the 16th minute, up in the stands, I heard someone slap their own thigh. N...
Asian Games 2026: PV Sindhu Loses to Chen Yufei in Quarter-Final, and 122 Seconds That Decided the MatchThe Fourth Minute of the Decider The shuttle left Chen Yufei's racket on a lo...
The Scandinavian Defence: Sixty Minutes, One Name, and the Gap Nobody FilledOn a board in a club in the Petrogradskaya district of Saint Petersburg, a...
Thirty-Six Scholarships Where Table Tennis Was BornA thirty-six scholarship places story from the birthplace of table tennis —...
Chengdu, a Week of Serving and a Data Hole Nobody Wants to ReadThe Third Set in Chengdu, and a Number That Breaks the Profile The fourteenth...
V-League after Round 2: Song Lam Nghe An's surprise, and the anomaly hiding at the bottomAt seven in the evening at Vinh Stadium, the groundskeeper switched off the...
Four Teams Within 0.4 Seconds at Sepang: This Race Will Be Decided by Tyre LifeThe Friday afternoon at Sepang closed with a timing sheet that, at a glance,...