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Max Dowman, 16, and three Guinness World Records: the Arsenal asset and the verification problemThree Guinness certificates lie side by side on a table, and Max Dowman sits...
V-League 2026-2027 after Round 2: Song Lam Nghe An's surprise, and the real shock at Ha NoiOn Sunday night I reopened the V-League 2026-2027 table after Round 2 closed,...
The Pool With No Splits: Vietnamese Swimming's Data GapIn April 2026, at the national swimming championships in Hue, I sat in the...
2027 Women's Volleyball World Cup: 18 Berths Locked and a Power Map RedrawnWhen the final of the 2026 AVC Women's Volleyball Asian Championship ended in...
Mexico Shaken: Doubts Over Paulette Gebara Farah Death Ruling, Family Member Calls for Re-InvestigationA number has haunted me throughout my years in this profession: 30. Not 30...
Kun Khmer in Phnom Penh and the Missing Record Books of Vietnamese Martial ArtsIn May 2026 I sat in front of a screen in Bangkok watching SEA Games 32 in...
Netflix, Sports Rights and the Streaming Cash TrapOn a January 2026 morning, I stood in a hotel corridor near Shin-Osaka statio...
An Empty Table Tennis Scouting Report: When Data Is Zero, the Correct Conclusion Is 'Cannot Assess'A table tennis scouting report landed in my inbox earlier this week. The fram...
Indonesia's Two Sets of Files: Maarten Paes, Ole Romeny and the Real Cost of ASEAN's Naturalization RaceAugust 2026. I was sitting in a cafe in Beijing's Chaoyang district, reopenin...
The Banner in Fondo Sur: Javier Tebas, Real Madrid and the Fight Over Who Gets to Tell the StoryA piece of cloth does not grow out of concrete A printed banner is not anger....
The Data Gap on the Tennis Court: When Silence Is a Professional DecisionOn Tuesday night I opened the folder holding my analysis file and found every...
Cooper Flagg's $8.04 Million Card and the $5.9 Million Bill Nobody Wants to PayOn the fourteenth day of the auction, a card bearing Cooper Flagg's image was...
Record 342,700 spectators at FIBA World Cup Qualifiers: Is global basketball truly 'exploding' in real appeal?Hook: The number 342,700 – the total attendance over 5 days of the FIBA World...
Karsten Müller and 25 Years of the Endgame Academy: When the Final Moves Get RetoldI remember a rainy afternoon in Shanghai. In a small room of a chess club in...
Malagon, the Ball Outside the Box and Two Misread Matches: A View from Field 1 at La NoriaThe Moment The ball was outside the box. Not right at the edge, but in that...
India's Draw at the 2026 Asian Games: The Silver on Their Shoulders and the Hosts Waiting in the QuarterfinalsWhen the organizers of the 2026 Asian Games released the men's team badminton...
Gauff and Pegula: 209 Weeks Inside the Top 10 and a Milestone American Tennis Waited Two Decades ForCoco Gauff packed her suitcase on a Wednesday morning. Inside were a few...
In the Middle of Transfer Season, an Empty Analysis Is the Most Honest Thing There IsLate on transfer deadline night in Saigon, the newsroom lights stay on. I sit...
Julián Álvarez and the Barcelona Rejection: When Atlético Madrid Chose to Keep the 'Heart' Instead of Selling the 'Contract'Nha Trang night, Germany drowned in the final whistle, and my voice shattered...
Vietnam Open: Nguyen Thuy Linh and the Four Closing Points She Couldn't Finish Against Xu Wen JingNguyen Du Stadium, minute 38 of Game 2. The score read 17-14 in favor of Nguy...
