The stories behind the scoreline: data revolutions, funding gaps and the new sports winning a generation of fans.
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Every professional club now runs on expected goals and tracking data — and the analytics have quietly rewritten recruitment, tactics and even the transfer market's prices.
Record audiences, franchise fees rising tenfold and sponsors discovering a market that was there all along. The state of the fastest-growing property in sport.
The record has fallen in record conditions, in magic shoes, on pace-lit courses. What physiology, engineering and course design have learned about 42.195 kilometres.
Districts built gaming labs expecting a distraction magnet. Instead they got a new pipeline to college scholarships — and a generation of students learning teamwork in lobbies.
The Olympic wave normalised street culture's sports — and cities noticed. A look at the festival format quietly winning the attention of a generation.
The same players, three surfaces, three different games. The materials science behind grass, clay and hard courts — and why the calendar is built around their differences.