Nguyen Trong NamNguyen Trong Nam
EsportsThe Discipline of the Empty Cell: Sports Writing When the Data Isn't There YetAt two in the morning on July 12, I sat in front of a spreadsheet with twelve...
EsportsEsports Transfers: An Empty Dataset Is Not a Clean Bill of HealthA contract photo was posted at 2:47 in the morning. In the frame, a young...
EsportsFour LCK Seeds at Worlds 2026: HLE Is Not the Favourite, and DK Is Not a BystanderThe first team eliminated from the 2026 LCK Cup is the team entering the Worl...
EsportsEmpty Cells in the Spreadsheet: Reading the LCK Transfer Window Through What Is Not WrittenEvery morning during the transfer window, I open a spreadsheet. Twelve column...
EsportsEsports: When Beautiful Data Hides a Bleeding IndustryAt Riyadh, in July 2026, I stood in the arena of the Esports World Cup and...
EsportsThe Nine-Dimension Map: How Esports Analysts Read a Match Before It BeginsOn my screen in Busan, right after T1 defeated Weibo Gaming 3-0 in the League...
Domestic FootballU20 Vietnam vs Palestine: A Must-Win BattleAfter the final whistle at Viet Tri Stadium, when the scoreline read 0-3 in...
Table TennisMoyland and Zhang Outlast Egypt to Reach Round of 16 in China Smash 2026 Women's DoublesSally Moyland and Lily Zhang of the United States advanced to the Round of 16...
International FootballKeito Nakamura's Lyon debut: 20 minutes of 'a little madness' and Fonseca's ticking clockKeito Nakamura and the 20 minutes that appear in no stat sheet I rewound the...
BasketballAngel Reese and the Defensive Player of the Year Award: Atlanta Dream's Defense Through the DataIn the game between the Atlanta Dream and the Los Angeles Sparks, the box sco...
BadmintonIndia reach Asian Games 2026 quarter-finals: a 3-0 win and the data left unverifiedThe scoreboard inside Ichinomiya City Municipal Gymnasium in Aichi-Nagoya, on...
International FootballLaporta Backs Tebas: The Governance War Before the 25 October ClásicoIn athletics, the official is never the main character. In 2026, the sport's...
International FootballVillarreal beat Valencia 2-1 at Mestalla: the 96th-minute goal and what the scoreline leaves outIn the 96th minute the ball came in from the left, Mikautadze ran across his...
International FootballA Dawn Call Without VAR: Franco Fagúndez and the Duty-of-Care Gap in Football LawThe clock in Montevideo had barely passed four in the morning when Franco...
TennisWrexham Open: 17-Year-Old Klugman, the Biggest Match of Her Career, and the Data GapHannah Klugman reaches the Wrexham Open women's singles final after beating...
Table TennisTable Tennis England Publishes 2026/26 Annual Report: Members' Day on 16 October, London 2026, and a Trust BarometerThe registration form for Table Tennis England's Members' Day 2026 carries on...
VolleyballSix Blank Time Slots and an African Milestone: Reading the Dakar 2026 Beach Volleyball ScheduleThe schedule release for beach volleyball at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Gam...
EsportsA Nine-Chapter Esports Report Full of N/A: The Standard That Keeps Analytics From FabricationLast week a nine-chapter report sat on my screen. The table of contents was...
Table TennisThe Dead Zone After the Third Ball: Vietnamese Table Tennis's Unsolved EquationAt 8-8 in the sixth game, the attacking player sent a long sidespin serve out...
International FootballFeyenoord and the Goalkeeper's Curse: When a Legend Speaks, Shadow Falls on Tjark ErnstIn the last five Feyenoord matches I watched on a small screen in Barcelona,...
EsportsEsports Transfers: An Empty Dataset Is Not a Clean Bill of HealthA contract photo was posted at 2:47 in the morning. In the frame, a young...
EsportsFour LCK Seeds at Worlds 2026: HLE Is Not the Favourite, and DK Is Not a BystanderThe first team eliminated from the 2026 LCK Cup is the team entering the Worl...
EsportsEmpty Cells in the Spreadsheet: Reading the LCK Transfer Window Through What Is Not WrittenEvery morning during the transfer window, I open a spreadsheet. Twelve column...
EsportsEsports: When Beautiful Data Hides a Bleeding IndustryAt Riyadh, in July 2026, I stood in the arena of the Esports World Cup and...
EsportsThe Nine-Dimension Map: How Esports Analysts Read a Match Before It BeginsOn my screen in Busan, right after T1 defeated Weibo Gaming 3-0 in the League...
Domestic FootballU20 Vietnam vs Palestine: A Must-Win BattleAfter the final whistle at Viet Tri Stadium, when the scoreline read 0-3 in...
Table TennisMoyland and Zhang Outlast Egypt to Reach Round of 16 in China Smash 2026 Women's DoublesSally Moyland and Lily Zhang of the United States advanced to the Round of 16...
International FootballKeito Nakamura's Lyon debut: 20 minutes of 'a little madness' and Fonseca's ticking clockKeito Nakamura and the 20 minutes that appear in no stat sheet I rewound the...
BasketballAngel Reese and the Defensive Player of the Year Award: Atlanta Dream's Defense Through the DataIn the game between the Atlanta Dream and the Los Angeles Sparks, the box sco...
BadmintonIndia reach Asian Games 2026 quarter-finals: a 3-0 win and the data left unverifiedThe scoreboard inside Ichinomiya City Municipal Gymnasium in Aichi-Nagoya, on...
International FootballLaporta Backs Tebas: The Governance War Before the 25 October ClásicoIn athletics, the official is never the main character. In 2026, the sport's...
International FootballVillarreal beat Valencia 2-1 at Mestalla: the 96th-minute goal and what the scoreline leaves outIn the 96th minute the ball came in from the left, Mikautadze ran across his...
International FootballA Dawn Call Without VAR: Franco Fagúndez and the Duty-of-Care Gap in Football LawThe clock in Montevideo had barely passed four in the morning when Franco...
TennisWrexham Open: 17-Year-Old Klugman, the Biggest Match of Her Career, and the Data GapHannah Klugman reaches the Wrexham Open women's singles final after beating...
Table TennisTable Tennis England Publishes 2026/26 Annual Report: Members' Day on 16 October, London 2026, and a Trust BarometerThe registration form for Table Tennis England's Members' Day 2026 carries on...
VolleyballSix Blank Time Slots and an African Milestone: Reading the Dakar 2026 Beach Volleyball ScheduleThe schedule release for beach volleyball at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Gam...
EsportsA Nine-Chapter Esports Report Full of N/A: The Standard That Keeps Analytics From FabricationLast week a nine-chapter report sat on my screen. The table of contents was...
Table TennisThe Dead Zone After the Third Ball: Vietnamese Table Tennis's Unsolved EquationAt 8-8 in the sixth game, the attacking player sent a long sidespin serve out...
International FootballFeyenoord and the Goalkeeper's Curse: When a Legend Speaks, Shadow Falls on Tjark ErnstIn the last five Feyenoord matches I watched on a small screen in Barcelona,...
