Oliver KirchOliver Kirch
Barcelona and the Empty Seats at the Ballon d'Or: Flick Stays, Cubarsi Recovers, Yamal FliesAt the Joan Gamper training centre, after the first session following the...
Which Muscle Tear Turned La Cartuja Into Real Betis's NightmareIn their last three home matches at the temporary La Cartuja ground, Real Bet...
Kane Misses Penalty, England Lose 2-3 to Spain: The Real Crack Was in MidfieldIn the 74th minute at Wembley I was sitting in front of a screen in a flat in...
Taolu, sanda and the professional ring: three logics Vietnamese martial arts still treat as oneIn a competition hall in Hanoi, the sound of a foot landing after a spinning...
Vietnamese Boxing at a Crossroads: Lessons from Nguyen Thi Duen's Defeat and the Path Forward for the Next GenerationThe fight ended at 2:47 of the fourth round. Nguyen Thi Du'en — the boxer...
Texas leads the race for #2 at NCAA: 53.8% poll lead but the truth behind that number is far more complexVirginia was unanimously considered the number one championship favorite, but...
When a Youth Scouting Report Comes Back Empty: The Excavation Begins in the GapMy spreadsheet has exactly three hundred rows. Each row is a name, a date of...
The Woman Who Blew the Whistle and a 3-3 Draw in Liga MXThere is a detail no one wrote into the match report: before the opening...
PV Sindhu at the 2026 Asian Games: When the Left Foot and the Rankings Both SpokeIn the replay of the quarter-final, I stopped at the first rally of the openi...
The V.League Transfer Window: When the Data Code Speaks Louder Than the Noise of RumoursI reopen the GPS dataset from a V.League match that ended three days ago. A...
Vietnamese Women's Sport and the Data Void Nobody FillsOn July 14, 2026, I opened the statistics file for a national women's athleti...
Vietnam U17 at Their First FIFA U17 World Cup: Preparation, Group Draw, and the Expectation EquationLet me start with a whistle. Not the kick-off whistle on Arabian soil, but th...
Audero holds the Rayo Vallecano starting spot: seven saves and a file still left openA goalkeeper who concedes four goals can still be the best player on the pitc...
Onimusha: Way of the Sword and the 36-Boss Problem11:40 p.m. on 13 August 2026, a gaming cafe on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street,...
Vietnamese Table Tennis Through Data: The Real Gap Between Regional and Continental PlayAt SEA Games 31 in Hanoi, I sat in the sixth row of the arena, notebook open,...
The Empty Report at the Clippers' Medical Desk: When 'No Data' Gets Read as 'No Problem'Summer 2026, at Summer League in Las Vegas, I spent three weeks building a...
Norris Lunges Into Piastri in the Singapore Sprint: A Self-Inflicted Point Drop and a Champion's DebtOn the final lap of the Singapore sprint, with both McLarens still running...
The Football Regulator’s Absolute Power and Manchester City’s Legal GambleOn The Rest Is Football podcast, David Kogan, chair of the Independent Footba...
Nine Analytical Dimensions, Not a Single Line of Data: The Test Facing Esports AnalystsAt 11:40 p.m., the last report of the shift landed in my inbox. I opened it t...
Milan, Amorim the strategist: Diawara, Hutchinson and Bartesaghi are new assets in the bid to stay in the Champions League placesMILAN, AMORIM AND THE TACTICAL EXPERIMENT: WHEN SQUAD OPTIONS BECOME WEAPONS ...
