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International FootballBrazil and Australia both lift the curtain on rebuild cycle: When absences on the squad list draw the new tactical mapTownsville, this weekend. A press event that, if read by headline alone, woul...
International FootballArsenal close to extending Arteta: what the £5m Champions League clause says about the club's real ambitionI read the story at six in the morning Manchester time, before the coffee had...
International FootballArsenal Bank on Continuity: When Big Names Elude, the Gunners Choose the Low-Risk PathAt Villa Park, a late summer evening. Bukayo Saka scored the decisive goal, a...
Table TennisRob Davies Leads 13-Strong Para GB Squad to Murcia: Ranking Plan Rewritten as Opponents WithdrawOn October 6, 2026, in Murcia, Spain, Rob Davies steps to the table with one...
International FootballToluca vs Santos Laguna: 2,600 Metres of Altitude and the Low-Block ProblemIn Marseille at night, I replayed the tape of Santos Laguna against Juárez. I...
Domestic FootballVFF Finalizes 10th-Term Chairmanship Nominations: An Electorate Shrunk to 57, a Trophy List Spread Across Four FrontsIn 2026, 74 member organisations voted at the VFF's 9th-term congress. The li...
International FootballInter's Do-or-Die Gamble: When 0 Points From 2 Turns San Siro Into a CourtroomI remember the night of June 30, 2026, in Nizhny Novgorod, when a 19-year-old...
International FootballLamine Yamal Compares Himself to Messi and Ronaldinho: A Ballon d'Or File Written With 14 Goal ContributionsThe interview ended at nine in the evening local time. The technician unclipp...
Martial Arts100 Grams and Fifteen Minutes: When a Rule Built to Protect Athletes Turns Against ThemFifteen minutes. That was the entire window Jung Su-jin had to correct a...
International FootballMonterrey Eighth on 17 Points: The Liga MX Table Is Misnaming a Crisis2 a.m., I reopened the Apertura table on my second monitor, next to a tab...
International FootballNetherlands 0-2 Down to Greece at Half-Time: Dumfries Sits Too Deep, Veteran Defence Loses Its Reading of the GameI rewound the footage of the 23rd minute four times. Fotis Ioannidis' finish...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital After Health Scare: Reading the Injury Map of a 39-Year-Old FighterOn the night of September 26 in Las Vegas, in the fifth round of the main eve...
EsportsRoad to EWC 2027: 400 Qualifiers, 1.8 Million Players and an Unfilled Integrity GapThe clock inside the internet café on Cach Mang Thang Tam street reads 2:14...
BasketballWhen the Data Disappears: The Empty Analysis and the Limits of Sports WritingOpening January in Chengdu, the temperature outside dropping below five...
International Football40 Goals, 9 Matches and the Hollow Feeling: When the Champions League Traded Drama for LegibilityThere was a Champions League night when the net rippled 40 times across 9...
BadmintonThuy Linh before the 20th Asian Games: the harshness is not at the netNguyen Thuy Linh told Dan Tri that the Asian Games arena is “very harsh, it i...
ChessChess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Defends Double Title, Gukesh and Sindarov Set for Historic ClashSamarkand, the legendary city on the Silk Road, will become the center of the...
VolleyballSMU and the 38-36 Set: How the Block Rewrote Pitt's 58-Match Home StreakI still remember the moment the noise inside Fitzgerald Field House died. Not...
International FootballDiomande, Vinicius and Real Madrid's Left Flank Before El Clasico: Rotation, Not a Changing of the GuardIn the 63rd minute at the Bernabéu, Diomande received the ball near the left...
International FootballFujieda MYFC and the 69th-Minute Handball: The Crack the Referee Did Not CreateMinute 69, at Fujieda MYFC’s home ground, the score was 0-1. Riyo Kawamoto...
International FootballArsenal close to extending Arteta: what the £5m Champions League clause says about the club's real ambitionI read the story at six in the morning Manchester time, before the coffee had...
International FootballArsenal Bank on Continuity: When Big Names Elude, the Gunners Choose the Low-Risk PathAt Villa Park, a late summer evening. Bukayo Saka scored the decisive goal, a...
Table TennisRob Davies Leads 13-Strong Para GB Squad to Murcia: Ranking Plan Rewritten as Opponents WithdrawOn October 6, 2026, in Murcia, Spain, Rob Davies steps to the table with one...
International FootballToluca vs Santos Laguna: 2,600 Metres of Altitude and the Low-Block ProblemIn Marseille at night, I replayed the tape of Santos Laguna against Juárez. I...
Domestic FootballVFF Finalizes 10th-Term Chairmanship Nominations: An Electorate Shrunk to 57, a Trophy List Spread Across Four FrontsIn 2026, 74 member organisations voted at the VFF's 9th-term congress. The li...
International FootballInter's Do-or-Die Gamble: When 0 Points From 2 Turns San Siro Into a CourtroomI remember the night of June 30, 2026, in Nizhny Novgorod, when a 19-year-old...
International FootballLamine Yamal Compares Himself to Messi and Ronaldinho: A Ballon d'Or File Written With 14 Goal ContributionsThe interview ended at nine in the evening local time. The technician unclipp...
Martial Arts100 Grams and Fifteen Minutes: When a Rule Built to Protect Athletes Turns Against ThemFifteen minutes. That was the entire window Jung Su-jin had to correct a...
International FootballMonterrey Eighth on 17 Points: The Liga MX Table Is Misnaming a Crisis2 a.m., I reopened the Apertura table on my second monitor, next to a tab...
International FootballNetherlands 0-2 Down to Greece at Half-Time: Dumfries Sits Too Deep, Veteran Defence Loses Its Reading of the GameI rewound the footage of the 23rd minute four times. Fotis Ioannidis' finish...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital After Health Scare: Reading the Injury Map of a 39-Year-Old FighterOn the night of September 26 in Las Vegas, in the fifth round of the main eve...
EsportsRoad to EWC 2027: 400 Qualifiers, 1.8 Million Players and an Unfilled Integrity GapThe clock inside the internet café on Cach Mang Thang Tam street reads 2:14...
BasketballWhen the Data Disappears: The Empty Analysis and the Limits of Sports WritingOpening January in Chengdu, the temperature outside dropping below five...
International Football40 Goals, 9 Matches and the Hollow Feeling: When the Champions League Traded Drama for LegibilityThere was a Champions League night when the net rippled 40 times across 9...
BadmintonThuy Linh before the 20th Asian Games: the harshness is not at the netNguyen Thuy Linh told Dan Tri that the Asian Games arena is “very harsh, it i...
ChessChess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Defends Double Title, Gukesh and Sindarov Set for Historic ClashSamarkand, the legendary city on the Silk Road, will become the center of the...
VolleyballSMU and the 38-36 Set: How the Block Rewrote Pitt's 58-Match Home StreakI still remember the moment the noise inside Fitzgerald Field House died. Not...
International FootballDiomande, Vinicius and Real Madrid's Left Flank Before El Clasico: Rotation, Not a Changing of the GuardIn the 63rd minute at the Bernabéu, Diomande received the ball near the left...
International FootballFujieda MYFC and the 69th-Minute Handball: The Crack the Referee Did Not CreateMinute 69, at Fujieda MYFC’s home ground, the score was 0-1. Riyo Kawamoto...