Nur Adam AbdullahNur Adam Abdullah
USA TODAY Sports and PlayVS open a three-title battlefield at the U.S. high school esports championshipOn October 12, 2026, eight American high schools enter the group stage of the...
V.League Transfer Window: Reading the Signals in a Training Ground's SilenceLate on a June afternoon, the training centre gates of a V.League club closed...
Fukuoka Opens the Asian Men's Volleyball Championship: Japan's 2028 Olympic Ticket Rests on Their ShouldersFukuoka, early September. The court is being wiped down one last time, the ne...
Inside V.League 1: The Untold Rhythm of Vietnamese FootballOn a Tuesday afternoon I stood outside the fence of a training ground on the...
Indonesia 0-0 Malaysia: When Ten Men Had to Learn How to BreatheIn the 35th minute, Thom Haye turned his back on the match. The referee...
The Last Lunge in Las Vegas and the $382,928 Judgment Buried Under the Word 'Mogul'A friend standing beside him shouted at him to stay still. He went forward...
Peter Engel (2026–2026): The Data File of a German Who Crossed Four Decades of European Table TennisThe European Table Tennis Union's (ETTU) announcement of Peter Engel's death...
Women's Volleyball Pool A at Asian Games 2026: Japan, Indonesia and the Data Gap No One FillsMoscow 2026 did not belong to the goalscorer. I still say that whenever someo...
Rafa Márquez, age 24 and Mexico's bet on the futureRafa Márquez sat in front of the microphone after the 1-1 draw with Peru and...
Struijk Red Card Overturned: VAR Once Again Sparks Controversy in the Premier LeagueIn a development that has sent shockwaves through English football, the...
Tran Thi Cam Tu's world karate silver: five narrow wins and the -59kg weight-class forkBielsko-Biała, Poland. The referee calls “Hajime”. For the next three minutes...
Assefa's Collapse in Berlin: When the World Record Was Only Two Kilometres AwayJust two more kilometres. Two kilometres on a road as flat as a calibration...
The Sourceless Results Sheet: A Lesson in Athletics Data IntegrityLast week, in an amateur athletics group, someone shared a statistics sheet...
A Third Round in Shanghai: Sinner Closes His Season, Shelton Closes His Run, and the Verdict of the TiebreakOn the centre court in Shanghai, the scoreboard froze at 7-6(5), 7-6(3). Not ...
Data Discipline: Lessons from an Empty Esports AnalysisThere is a report I still keep on my hard drive to this day. It runs twelve...
The Broken Data Pipeline: When an Esports Analyst Has to Learn to Say "I Don't Know"The Broken Data Pipeline: When an Esports Analyst Has to Learn to Say "I Don'...
Aidil Sholeh creates Malaysian history at Vietnam Open 2026On September 13, 2026, in Ho Chi Minh City, Malaysia's Aidil Sholeh Ali Sadik...
63 Checking Moves: The Ceiling of a 58-Year-Old Chess Problem and What the Headline Left OutIn my editing room in Hai Phong, I keep a wall covered with slips of paper...
An Empty Analysis in Transfer Season: When Esports Has to Relearn How to Say 'Not Enough Information'Two in the morning in Busan. August rain hammered the seventh-floor window an...
Daniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Patch: When Chess Sells Maintenance Instead of InventionThe game was played in the final round of a club tournament in Da Nang in ear...
