Pieter GerkensPieter Gerkens
Benzema, Yoann Riou and the Fight Over Who Gets to Define a Great Striker23:40 in Marseille is the hour when the city sleeps but social media does not...
Ashmita Chaliha and the Question of Playing Standards Between Two Badminton CulturesI sat in the makeshift stands of a sports hall in Surabaya, where the air hun...
India wins badminton men's team medal at Asian Games 2026, women fall to JapanAt the Ichinomiya City Municipal Gymnasium in Aichi-Nagoya, India's men's...
Cowboys Edge Texans 34-30: CeeDee Lamb Nears Jason Witten's Record, Dak Prescott Ties Staubach's MilestoneWhen Dak Prescott dropped back at the 12-yard line, the clock at Arlington...
The Rhythm of Flushing Meadows: Pegula and Sabalenka Continue Their US Open StoryWhen the clock on Arthur Ashe Stadium stopped at 56 minutes, I realized I had...
Potapova Advances to US Open Fourth Round After Straight-Sets Win Over AnisimovaPotapova reaches US Open fourth round after convincing win over Anisimova In ...
Lakshya Sen Loses to Loh Kean Yew at Asian Games 2026: The 10-Point Run and the Gap After a 5-1 LeadIn the deciding game, Lakshya Sen leveled at 13-14. The stands erupted. Then...
900 Minutes and a Boo: Gabriel Milito's Luis Romo Gamble at ChivasThe Akron stands went quiet in the way only big stadiums can — not the silenc...
Minute 27 and Minute 28: Osimhen's Silence in LilleMinute 27: the whistle cut across the pitch at Pierre-Mauroy. Referee Obrenov...
Johan Vásquez nearly joined Roma: Why the deal collapsed and why the story is not overAt three in the morning in Incheon, I was replaying a stoppage-time header. T...
When Football Analysis Rooms Run Empty: What Happens When AI Is Tasked to Write About a Match Nobody Watched?Hanoi, a late afternoon. I stood in the corridor of Hang Day Stadium after th...
The Empty Analysis: When Vietnamese Table Tennis Lacks a Data LayerLast night, I opened an in-depth analysis of table tennis. I read it top to...
Chaliha Questions Super 100 Venue Standards After Indonesia Masters WinThe ceiling of the hall at the Indonesia Masters Super 100 had a grey that di...
MyUSATT and the Digital Stratum: How a Table Tennis Federation Digs Its FoundationIn July 2026, at the SHB Da Nang youth training centre, I sat behind a coach...
FRITZ 20 Arrives: A New Training Machine and an Old Puzzle for Vietnamese ChessThree in the afternoon in a small chess training room on Nguyen Van Linh...
Turkey's 14-Year-Old, the Unverified 2,731 Number, and How We Write Legends Before the Facts Can SpeakThere is a moment in chess that I always try to capture, even though it lasts...
ASIAD 2026: Japan 3-0 Thailand and a Quarterfinal Bracket Where Vietnam Meets South KoreaOn the same matchday in the group stage of the ASIAD 2026 men's football...
Vietnamese Youth Table Tennis and the Seedlings Growing Beyond the Scouting RadarLate afternoon at a district-level multi-purpose gym, under dim yellow...
Global Chess League 2026: Carlsen Returns, $1M Prize, and the Schedule TrapWhen Tech Mahindra announced the participant list for the fourth season of th...
Kenyan Women's Athletics: Records Rewritten, Pages Still BlankOn 7 July 2026, in Paris, Faith Kipyegon ran the 1500m in 3 minutes 49.04...
