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NBA GM Survey: Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs Get the Love, but Basketball Has Never Listened to a BallotOn Tuesday evening, the fourteenth of October, I was sitting in a small...
Tobias Harris's Calf and the Illusion of an Opening NightI once sat in enough gyms to learn one thing: a calf strain is never loud. It...
Pistons Unlocking Cade Cunningham: Off-Ball Looks and the Ausar Thompson GamblePicture a possession from the recent playoffs. Cade Cunningham does not have...
Bahrain Beat Oman 3-0 and Still Went Home in Fukuoka: Seven Kill Blocks, One Point-Ratio ColumnThe third set ended 25-23. Hasan Haider Mohamed had just closed the final ral...
Asiad 20 Women's Volleyball Final: China vs Japan, a Gap Narrowed to a Single PassJapan needed 84 minutes to beat South Korea 3-0 in the women's volleyball...
U17 Vietnam at the World Cup: Cristiano Roland's Preparation Code and the Price of PhysicalityIn the first two weeks of the training camp, the ball was almost absent. That...
Germany Lose 0-1 to Greece: Abuse in the Stands, a Steward's Silence and One Suspicious Line in the ReportA spectator sitting in the stands during the Germany versus Greece match...
Spalletti Sows His Own Doubt While His Club Craves CalmI keep a habit of writing down every coach's words in a small notebook, along...
When Transfer News Is Just an Echo: The Craft of Filtering Signals in Silly SeasonThat June night, I got three phone calls in one morning. All three told the...
Full-Strength Thailand vs Depleted Vietnam: Lessons from the 0-2 Defeat and Minh Khoa's VoiceIn football, sometimes you don't need a long spreadsheet of statistics to...
Lena Ludwig and Texas: Re-reading a Breaststroke Commitment Through the Lens of Short-Course ConversionLast weekend, I reopened two sets of swimming results and placed them side by...
Vietnam vs Thailand, 17:30 on September 21: The Qualification Ticket and the Arithmetic That Does Not Add UpThe 0-8 flashed on the scoreboard and I had already left my seat before the...
Merino's 89th-Minute Goal and the Unverified Question About SpainIn the 89th minute, as many spectators at the Estadio Municipal Carlos Tartie...
The Void Is Also a Match: When the Pitch Has Nothing to TellOn my desk in Seoul there is a notebook I open only on rare nights. Its first...
From Mexico's Line 079 back to football: when digital platforms draw their own safety mapsIn Manchester at night, I opened a story that arrived in the wrong place....
Red Tornado Against the Bandung Wall: One Penalty, One Table, and the Price of a Single ErrorThe decisive penalty at Si Jalak Harupat did not come from an elaborate move....
When Data Speaks: A 45-Year Journey of a Female Sports JournalistI don't remember exactly when I started counting. I only know that while my...
The 52-Week Clock and the Invisible Class of World Table TennisAt a lower-tier WTT venue, table nine has no camera. The stands are four rows...
Duong Thuy Vi and Her Fourth Consecutive Bronze: How China's System Still Sets the Ceiling in Wushu Taolu9.703. The number appeared on the scoreboard after Duong Thuy Vi's jianshu...
Unstoppable Vezenkov Drops 36 Points as Bulgaria Stuns Romania on the RoadPerformance Index Rating of 46. A number most European players never touch ev...