Cong ZhenCong Zhen
BasketballMiami's Twin Towers: Defense Is Set, Spacing Remains UnknownIn the internal tracking sheet I keep for the new season, two data lines sit...
International FootballPosition Is Only the Starting Point: Positionless Basketball and the Price of Being EarlyOn May 9, 2026, in the fourth quarter of the Eastern Conference semifinals,...
Table Tennis43 out of 56: Mapping the U11-U13 Table Tennis Medal Table of the Americas and the Limits of Home AdvantageKaty, Texas. The arena on the outskirts of Houston was not large enough to...
ChessChess Olympiad 2026: India Defends Crown in Samarkand, Gukesh and Sindarov Create Global SpotlightI rewind the SEA Games 29 footage to find what people overlook. This time, I...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Martial Arts Between Forms and Combat: When Medals Tell Half the StoryOn the competition floor at SEA Games 31 in Hanoi, a Vovinam athlete stepped ...
AthleticsLSR Colombo Marathon 2026: The Revival of a Race Not Built for RecordsIn October 2026, a field of runners will leave the Bandaranaike Memorial...
TennisPegula and Sabalenka shine as US Open catches up after rain delaysNew York, a damp August afternoon – raindrops fell on the Arthur Ashe roof, b...
Domestic FootballVietnamese Football Does Not Lack Stars — It Lacks DataThere is a truth no one in Vietnamese football wants to hear: our professiona...
International FootballJapan 2-1 Venezuela: The SECOM Laughter and the Crack Behind the Hiroshima LightsIn the second minute of first-half stoppage time at Edion Peace Wing in...
BadmintonAn Se-young and the 21-9 Second Game at the Asian Games: The Line Between Dominance and What the Data Cannot SayThe 21-9 Second Game The second game of the women's singles final ended at...
Domestic FootballInside the V.League Transfer Window: Money, Contracts and the Data GapInside the V.League Transfer Window: Money, Contracts and the Data Gap On the...
Table TennisWorld Hopes Week 2026 Returns to Sheffield: Forty Under-12 Players and the ITTF's Long GameEarly in the week in Sheffield, the hall has no grandstand, no high scoreboar...
AthleticsAgnes Ngetich clocks 1:05:15 in Copenhagen: one-second record and the forgotten categoryAgnes Ngetich of Kenya won the women's race at the World Athletics Road Runni...
ChessGlobal Chess League 2026: Carlsen returns, packed schedule before OlympiadThe fourth season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League kicks off from...
International FootballParking the Bus or Smart Defense: How Vietnamese Football Is Fooling Itself With Beautiful NumbersI sat in a beer bar on Nguyen Du Street in Saigon, rewatching the second leg ...
Domestic FootballFirst Division Round 1 live schedule: Cong An Nhan Dan, Becamex HCMC take the fieldWhen Cong An Nhan Dan step onto the pitch for Round 1 of the 2026-2027 First...
EsportsDeep Analysis of Esports Tournaments: When Input Data Is Empty and Lessons on the Analytical ProcessIn the rapidly growing esports industry in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, the...
EsportsA Report With No Data: When Esports Is Forced to Say "Insufficient Information"I received a nine-part analysis report. Every section had tables, headers, an...
EsportsData Discipline in the Storm of Esports Transfer RumorsThree in the morning in Busan, I open a nine-page analysis file. It has a...
Table TennisChina Smash 2026: Kanak Jha's Two 11-13 Losses and the Real Ceiling of American Table TennisOn the scoreboard of the arena in Beijing, the score 11-13 appeared twice in...
International FootballPosition Is Only the Starting Point: Positionless Basketball and the Price of Being EarlyOn May 9, 2026, in the fourth quarter of the Eastern Conference semifinals,...
Table Tennis43 out of 56: Mapping the U11-U13 Table Tennis Medal Table of the Americas and the Limits of Home AdvantageKaty, Texas. The arena on the outskirts of Houston was not large enough to...
ChessChess Olympiad 2026: India Defends Crown in Samarkand, Gukesh and Sindarov Create Global SpotlightI rewind the SEA Games 29 footage to find what people overlook. This time, I...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Martial Arts Between Forms and Combat: When Medals Tell Half the StoryOn the competition floor at SEA Games 31 in Hanoi, a Vovinam athlete stepped ...
AthleticsLSR Colombo Marathon 2026: The Revival of a Race Not Built for RecordsIn October 2026, a field of runners will leave the Bandaranaike Memorial...
TennisPegula and Sabalenka shine as US Open catches up after rain delaysNew York, a damp August afternoon – raindrops fell on the Arthur Ashe roof, b...
Domestic FootballVietnamese Football Does Not Lack Stars — It Lacks DataThere is a truth no one in Vietnamese football wants to hear: our professiona...
International FootballJapan 2-1 Venezuela: The SECOM Laughter and the Crack Behind the Hiroshima LightsIn the second minute of first-half stoppage time at Edion Peace Wing in...
BadmintonAn Se-young and the 21-9 Second Game at the Asian Games: The Line Between Dominance and What the Data Cannot SayThe 21-9 Second Game The second game of the women's singles final ended at...
Domestic FootballInside the V.League Transfer Window: Money, Contracts and the Data GapInside the V.League Transfer Window: Money, Contracts and the Data Gap On the...
Table TennisWorld Hopes Week 2026 Returns to Sheffield: Forty Under-12 Players and the ITTF's Long GameEarly in the week in Sheffield, the hall has no grandstand, no high scoreboar...
AthleticsAgnes Ngetich clocks 1:05:15 in Copenhagen: one-second record and the forgotten categoryAgnes Ngetich of Kenya won the women's race at the World Athletics Road Runni...
ChessGlobal Chess League 2026: Carlsen returns, packed schedule before OlympiadThe fourth season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League kicks off from...
International FootballParking the Bus or Smart Defense: How Vietnamese Football Is Fooling Itself With Beautiful NumbersI sat in a beer bar on Nguyen Du Street in Saigon, rewatching the second leg ...
Domestic FootballFirst Division Round 1 live schedule: Cong An Nhan Dan, Becamex HCMC take the fieldWhen Cong An Nhan Dan step onto the pitch for Round 1 of the 2026-2027 First...
EsportsDeep Analysis of Esports Tournaments: When Input Data Is Empty and Lessons on the Analytical ProcessIn the rapidly growing esports industry in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, the...
EsportsA Report With No Data: When Esports Is Forced to Say "Insufficient Information"I received a nine-part analysis report. Every section had tables, headers, an...
EsportsData Discipline in the Storm of Esports Transfer RumorsThree in the morning in Busan, I open a nine-page analysis file. It has a...
Table TennisChina Smash 2026: Kanak Jha's Two 11-13 Losses and the Real Ceiling of American Table TennisOn the scoreboard of the arena in Beijing, the score 11-13 appeared twice in...
