Paul PogbaPaul Pogba
Nine Layers of Reading a Table Tennis Match, and the Blank at the TenthOn a table tennis coach's desk in Saigon sits a spreadsheet with nine tabs. T...
Lakshya Sen Exits Asian Games 2026 After Tight Battle With Loh Kean YewLakshya Sen was eliminated from the men's singles event at the 2026 Asian Gam...
Alwi Farhan, Momota and the Data Void Ahead of the Asian Games 2026Inside an empty training hall in Tokyo, a young Indonesian player stood acros...
Riot Games Under a Storm of Criticism at Champions Shanghai: A Match Decided by Hardware, a Result Left UnchangedThe match clock ticked to the 34th second. Doğan "xeus" Gözgen was in a...
Anaheim, Honda Center and the LA28 rehearsal slot: volleyball learns to operate like a businessHonda Center in Anaheim seats close to 18,000. The LA28 organisers locked the...
siuhy Becomes a Free Agent After Leaving Team Liquid: A 16-Month IGL Gamble and an Unanswered QuestionKamil "siuhy" Szkaradek's final match in a Team Liquid jersey did not end in ...
Unbeaten HOCHART leads the Europe Youth Top 10 U19 Girls in Antibes: six matches without dropping a game, and a contradiction hidden in the results sheetSix matches, and the games-lost column still empty. Day two of the Europe You...
World Cup 2026 and the Limits of VAR: The Offside Line Depends on Whoever Draws ItOn July 15, 2026, thirty-seven minutes before kick-off of the World Cup final...
The Discipline of Not Knowing: Lessons from an Empty Analysis in Esports MediaOpening: Nine Sections, Not One Fact The report had nine sections. It had...
Aidil Sholeh Wins Vietnam Open 2026: The 27-Month Record and the Limits of a Super 100 TitleThe final shuttle dropped onto the left side of the court, the umpire called...
EWC 2027 Opens 400 Satellite Events: The Cyber Café Door, and a Chess Headline the Release Never MentionsLate at night in a cyber café on Nguyen Thien Thuat Street in Nha Trang,...
Mahoor Shahzad and the loneliness of a pioneer: Lessons from the 21-5, 21-11 defeat at the Asian GamesThe court doesn't remember, but I do. I remember the moment Mahoor Shahzad...
Ex-Purdue star Trey Kaufman-Renn enters portal: Not just a transfer, but a legal battle shaking the NCAAIn early April 2026, the U.S. college basketball world witnessed an...
Eight Data Layers for Reading a Vietnamese FightI opened an eight-layer analysis sheet for a combat sports event and entered...
Three Goals in 17 Games: Pulisic, Dortmund and the Systemic Gap in Vietnamese Youth FootballIn September 2026, I published a 19-minute podcast called "Counterpunch". In...
Nintendo Direct: When Creativity Takes Center Stage, Esports Still Stands Outside Switch 2's DoorWhen Nintendo revealed the Switch 2 during its first Nintendo Direct of the...
When Esports Data Falls Silent: An Analysis of Information VoidLast week, a colleague sent me an esports analysis report full of charts and...
Reading the V.League Transfer Window: the Money, the Clauses, and the Names Nobody MentionsOn January 10, while most fans were asleep, a V.League club completed a loan...
Lawson and the biggest challenge: Driving two cars 'different everywhere' in the same seasonZANDVOORT, Netherlands – When Liam Lawson received the call from Red Bull on...
BLAST Slam VIII: The 28-1 Flip, GamerLegion's Collapse, and the Name Topson Left BehindYuma pressed the button for the final kill of game one, and the scoreboard...
