Oliver BaumannOliver Baumann
Southeast Asian Table Tennis and the Data Gap in Youth DevelopmentThe training hall in Kuala Lumpur opens at six in the morning, and for the ne...
When the Scoreboard Falls Silent: Women's Sports and the Fight for DataOn a July night in 2026, I sat in a hospital waiting room in Busan beside my...
Seven Points From Eight Games: Man United, Bruno Fernandes and a Crisis With Nowhere Left to HideThe 78th Minute at Old Trafford When Evanilson rolled the ball into an empty...
$80 Million and 5 First-Round Picks: Why the LA Clippers Should Accept the NBA Penalty Instead of Fighting ItI have followed NBA penalty cases since the 2026 Timberwolves, and I have nev...
Asian Games 2026: The 21-12, 19-21, 14-21 Curve and the Big Question Around a Defending ChampionThe numbers sit there, cold and straight: 21-12, 19-21, 14-21. Three...
Tadic's Brain Runs Faster Than NEC: When a Former Ajax Captain Faces a Season of IntegrationDusan Tadic said something the whole of the Netherlands is repeating: "I make...
Foreign Player Transfers: Lessons from Dutch Football TacticsIn 2026, Vietnamese football was in a period of reconstruction following year...
ETTU signs Dyn broadcast deal through 2028: seven cameras for table one, four for the rest of European table tennisLast autumn I sat in a European arena with my notebook open, and the first...
US College Women's Volleyball Enters Commercial Era: 27 Matches in 6 Days and Wrigley FieldWhen the schedule was announced, the number of 27 matches in 6 days across 10...
Vietnam U20 0-3 North Korea U20: A Lesson in Physicality and Tactical AdaptationA small stadium in the eastern part of Beijing, where the first match of Grou...
September 30, 2026 Broadcast Schedule: Reading a TV Listing as a Map of Sports PowerAt nine in the evening in Melbourne, I opened the sports broadcast schedule f...
An Se-young and the record haul after the Asian Games 2026 women's singles goldOn September 29, 2026, in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, An Se-young walked into the...
Vietnam U20 Relegated: Three Straight Defeats Expose Age-Group GapHook Three matches, three defeats, zero points. Vietnam U20 finished bottom o...
The Transfer Window and the Craft of Filtering: The Name Mentioned Seventeen TimesOn the final night of the winter transfer window, I sat in a small café in...
Morocco's Panenka at Qatar 2026: Behind the Fairytale Lies a Football LaboratoryOn 6 December 2026, at Education City Stadium in Doha, a 24-year-old born in...
Kawhi to Toronto: No More Obstacles, But Is He Still Himself?Kawhi Leonard is standing at the door of a return to the Toronto Raptors — th...
Liverpool 2-1 Atletico and Napoli 0-1 Arsenal: The Same Unlocking Mechanism, The Same Blind Spot Around the BoxMinute 17 at Anfield Minute 17, Anfield. The ball is in Liverpool's net. The...
Two South American Records in Two Days: Carvalho and Alcantara Brighten Brazil's Hopes for BeijingWhen the crowd asks 'who will be Brazil's next swimming star?', I look at the...
Brobbey's Broken Sprint and the No. 9 Question the Netherlands Has Not AnsweredIn the seventy-something minute, Brian Brobbey accelerated. He chased a long...
Gen.G reverse-sweep LYON 2-1 at Worlds 2026: a quarterfinal ticket and a crack in the 3-0 runAt 20:55 on 25 October 2026, the best-of-three series between Gen.G and LYON...
