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CAND come from behind to beat Long An 2-1 on V.League 2 opening day: two goals from the bench and an unanswered questionBy around the 60th minute of CAND's V.League 2 opener, the starting XI had no...
VAR Will Not Turn Vietnamese Referees into Saints, but It Forces the Whole System to Look at ItselfIn the 88th minute, with the score tied at 1-1 in a top-of-the-table V.League...
Icardi and the Closed Door at Inter: When the Dressing Room Has No Room for an IconThat summer, at the Appiano Gentile training centre, I stood in the corridor...
When Data Falls Silent: The Fragile Line Between Football Analysis and FictionThree in the morning in Manchester. I sat in front of a screen waiting for a...
Six Error-Free Points from 15-16: PV Sindhu Reaches the 2026 French Open Final to Face An Se YoungThe scoreboard stopped at 15-16. Over the next seventy-odd seconds, PV Sindhu...
Divya Deshmukh and Vaishali after Olympiad Gold: The 'Stronger' Claim and the Data GapI have a habit of rewinding. Whenever a statement about chess makes it into t...
Vietnam breaks national record in mixed 4x400m relay at ASIAD 2026: 3:14.54, bronze, and the 0.08 seconds left behindThe moment at the third exchange zone In Aichi-Nagoya, the mixed 4x400m relay...
An Empty F1 Analysis Sheet and the Paddock's Discipline of VerificationThree in the morning in Hamburg, and the screen in my study rendered nine...
The Estadio Banorte Tunnel: The Glass, the Child, and the Scream After a 1-1 DrawAt the end of the Estadio Banorte tunnel there is a pane of glass. It is so...
Empty Stadium, Empty Data: When Sports Analysis Loses the StoryOne evening before a match, I sat in the newsroom with an empty analysis fram...
Trung Dat's 40-metre strike: the shot was real, the 'wonder goal' label still needs verificationIn the final minutes of the first half at Dan Phuong stadium, Trung Dat...
An 11-Year-Old on Board One: What Really Lies Behind the 2504 Performance at the Samarkand OlympiadAt the seventh round of the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, in the women's...
Vietnam's Women's Team Kata and the Asian Games Gold: Reading a Victory Measured in Five FlagsI sat in row seven, on the left corner of the Toyohashi stand, on an afternoo...
Lilli Tagger and Her First Grand Slam Win: When Data Hasn't Spoken, Don't Rush to ConclusionsAt Flushing Meadows, on Court 11, Lilli Tagger stood at the service line for...
Three Injuries in One Hour: PSG Beat Barcelona but Lose Kvaratskhelia, Marquinhos and DembeleThree of them walked down the tunnel inside the same hour. The first came on...
Sal Everett: Dana White's Personal Assistant Knocks Out Ozzy Martin to Earn UFC ContractSal Everett: Dana White's Personal Assistant Knocks Out Ozzy Martin to Earn U...
Empty Reports in Vietnam's Youth Academies: When the Data Is Complete and Contains NothingIn October 2026 I stood still on the stand at Lach Tray Stadium in Hai Phong,...
The Unmeasured Crack: When the Volleyball Data Pipeline Returns Empty2:47 a.m., Nha Trang. I re-ran the analysis pipeline for a volleyball file,...
UFC 331: Joshua Van and the 12-Second Shock – When the Invisible Man SpeaksPeople remember the knockout, I remember the way the arena held its breath. O...
PV Sindhu in Hangzhou: When a Champion System Begins to UnravelI still remember how P.V. Sindhu walked onto the court for the women's single...