Martial Arts
When Jin Yong Rewrote History: Three Real Figures and a Lesson for Sports Media
Jena Bishop and the PFL Belt: One Win, Three 48-47 Cards, and the 125-Pound Blind Spot
An Eight-Part Combat Sports Report With Nothing In It: Vietnam's Verification Gap
100 Grams and 15 Minutes: The Korean Judo Weigh-In Incident That Exposed a Notification Failure
Eight Dimensions of Combat-Sports Analysis and the Biggest Blank: The Missing Classification LabelA combat-sports data file landed on my desk last week. It carried all eight...
The Slavi Binev Case: A Governance Node Removed from Olympic TaekwondoThe Sofia hall had room for 650 athletes from 10 countries. The head table of...
UFC 336: Prates and Morales Fight for an Interim Belt While Makhachev Sits Out RamadanThe UFC 336 poster outside Scotiabank Arena in Toronto carries two title...
The Three Tracks of Combat Sports and the Trap of the Empty ScorecardOn the night of 6 September 2026, the Phu Tho Arena in Ho Chi Minh City had n...
Three Wrong Anthems at the 2026 Asian Para Games: The Failure Sat in the Control Design, Not in LuckOn 19 October 2026, at the para taekwondo men's 58 kg medal ceremony at the...
Yin Zhiping, Lü Wende and Shi Lang: Three Different Degrees of Distortion in Jin Yong's NovelsIn 2026, on the summit of Mount Hua, a group of Taoist priests formed a line...
Auditing Three Historical Figures in Jin Yong's Novels: One Clear Wrong, Two Open DisputesIn 2026, on the stone path leading up Mount Hua, a group of people in Taoist...
When Jin Yong Rewrote History: Three Real Figures and a Lesson for Sports MediaIn 2026, on the road up Mount Hua, a group of Taoist priests blocked Jin Yong...
When the data sheet comes back empty: the line between fight-sport analysis and inventionAt 2:47 a.m. on 14 August 2026, a monitor in a rented flat in Chengdu display...
Vietnam's Fighters Are Missing the Most Important Lines in Their Records5:40 in the morning, a second-floor gym in Nha Trang. Only half the fluoresce...
The Gunshot in Las Vegas and the $382,928 Judgment Nobody MentionsOn that street, people remember a barbershop and a shoe store. Two businesses...
When Data Stays Silent: Lessons from an Empty AnalysisThere is a moment in sports podcasting that taught me more than any big match...
Jimmie Rivera stops Meyer in round four at BKFC 95: 13cm of height could not cover the class gapThe electronic clock inside Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, stopped ...
Pereira vs. Pavlovich at UFC 335: A Heavyweight Risk TestAlex Pereira is set to face Sergei Pavlovich in a five-round heavyweight...
Women's team kata gold at Asiad 20: a standard passed down through three generationsOn the afternoon of 22 September, Vietnam time, three names were called onto...
Tran Thi Cam Tu: a 17-year-old world silver and the -59kg class with no senior doorBielsko-Biała, Poland. The hall was not full. On the tatami, two female...
Jena Bishop and the PFL Belt: One Win, Three 48-47 Cards, and the 125-Pound Blind SpotThe night Bishop was announced was the night the whole MMA community had to...
Jena Bishop and the First PFL Belt: A Fight Decided by the Difference Between 48-47 and a DrawWhen the final bell sounded, Jena Bishop knelt at center cage rather than...
Jena Bishop Outpoints Liz Carmouche 48-47: The PFL Title Hinged on a Single 10-8 RoundThree identical scorecards and one round nobody scored differently Three...
Jena Bishop and the First PFL Belt: 48-47, Four Minutes of Back Control, and the 10-8 Nobody WroteRound five. Jena Bishop is on Liz Carmouche's back for close to four minutes....
Combat Sports' Contract Window: When the Deal Matters More Than the RecordThe weigh-in in Beijing wrapped at nine in the morning. A Thai fighter steppe...