Volleyball
The 15-13 Trap: Why Finland's World Cup Ticket Still Cannot Be Bought Without Verification
The Testimony of an Empty Notebook: Who Writes the Women's Volleyball Archive, and Who Erases It
Thailand's Women's Volleyball: The Story Buried Beyond 6-15
Indonesia's Campus-as-Stage Calculation: Three Questions the 36-Team Liga Voli Mahasiswa Leaves for Bangladesh
A Captain's Shadow on the Hai Phong Court: The Clock Ticking Behind Vietnam's Student Volleyball Crown
The 2027 Women's Volleyball World Cup: Three US Cities, 32 Teams, and the Arithmetic of Three Olympic Tickets
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116Matches21Teams
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1
Aleksandar NikolovBUL278
2
Nik MujanovicSLO277
3
Ferre ReggersBEL268
4
Ran TakahashiJPN262
5
Adis LagumdzijaTUR240
6
Jake HanesUSA223
7
Rok MozicSLO221
8
Matthew AndersonUSA197
Aleksandar NikolovBUL278
2Nik MujanovicSLO277
3Ferre ReggersBEL268
4Ran TakahashiJPN262
5Adis LagumdzijaTUR240
6Jake HanesUSA223
7Rok MozicSLO221
8Matthew AndersonUSA197
1
Kiera Van RykCAN298
2
Melissa Teresa Vargas AbreuTUR293
3
Yushan ZhuangCHN264
4
Ekaterina AntropovaITA259
5
Ana Cristina Menezes Oliveira de SouzaBRA256
6
Yukiko WadaJPN237
7
Julia BergmannBRA235
8
Pauline MartinBEL233
Kiera Van RykCAN298
2Melissa Teresa Vargas AbreuTUR293
3Yushan ZhuangCHN264
4Ekaterina AntropovaITA259
5Ana Cristina Menezes Oliveira de SouzaBRA256
6Yukiko WadaJPN237
7Julia BergmannBRA235
8Pauline MartinBEL233
The 15-13 Trap: Why Finland's World Cup Ticket Still Cannot Be Bought Without VerificationIn Turin I watched the scoreboard read 14-13. Fifth set, one point from the...
A Captain's Shadow on the Hai Phong Court: The Clock Ticking Behind Vietnam's Student Volleyball CrownThe final point of the Hai Phong indoor final landed, and the scoreboard read...
The 2027 Women's Volleyball World Cup: Three US Cities, 32 Teams, and the Arithmetic of Three Olympic TicketsThe final of the 2027 Women's Volleyball World Cup is scheduled for September...
11-25: Indonesia's Sixth Place at the 2026 Asian Games and the Crack the Scoreboard HidThe scoreboard at Park Arena Komaki read 11-25. On 22 September 2026, in the...
The Testimony of an Empty Notebook: Who Writes the Women's Volleyball Archive, and Who Erases ItThree in the morning in Nagoya. Rain on the window, three things on the desk:...
Uncharted Rallies: In Bangladeshi Volleyball, What Is Never Recorded Can Never Be ChangedThird day of the 2026 National Championship. In the western gallery of Shahee...
From 31-29 to 25-16: The Arithmetic Behind Poland's EuroVolley Title — And the Number That Isn't What It SaysMilan's final court ran the opening set to 31-29, and my desk clock in...
Finland 3-2 Italy: Two 15-13s and the Qualification Architecture Behind EuroVolley 2026's Biggest KnockoutAt 13-13 in the fifth set, the scoreboard stops being a scoreboard and become...
Kentucky's .079 to .420: First-Pass Quality, Not Clutch Hitting, Was the Real ScoreboardKentucky's first-set hitting percentage was.079. One set later it was.420. Th...
Thailand's Women's Volleyball: The Story Buried Beyond 6-15I keep a hardbound ledger for set-by-set scores. On the night of the 2026 Asi...
When the Middle Blocker Is Your Top Scorer: Accounting for One Season of Erosion in Vietnam Women's VolleyballThe thing that stopped me on the scoresheet was not a defeat, not a 0-3. It w...
Where the List Stops: Thirty Years of NCAA MOP Lineage and Its Three GapsIt is 3.40 a.m. in Dhaka. The room is dark, the laptop stream of the 2026 NCA...
Indonesia's Campus-as-Stage Calculation: Three Questions the 36-Team Liga Voli Mahasiswa Leaves for BangladeshFive lines of a press release. The organiser is MOJI, an Indonesian media...
Three Cities, 36 Teams, Two Matches: The Ledger Gap in Indonesia's Campus VolleyballWhat arrived at my desk last week was not a match report. It was a draw sheet...