Sports
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Sports · 3 min readWhat the Asian Games military service provision is — a gold medal becomes 34 months and 544 hours
Not an exemption — enrollment as art and sports personnel: basic training, 34 months within the sport, and 544 hours of volunteer work
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Sports · 2 min readSon Heung-min scores and assists (September 6) — LAFC still winless in six
Match — 2-2 away to Real Salt Lake. Son assisted in the 14th minute and scored in the 38th
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Sports · 3 min readWhat the KBO expanded roster is — and why it moved from September 1 to August 25
Date — from 2026 the window opens August 25, not September 1. A week earlier than before
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Sports · 2 min readSon Heung-min takes nine shots and scores none — LAFC draw Portland 1-1
Match — LAFC 1-1 Portland. Da Costa 4', Bouanga 79'
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Sports · 2 min readAsian Games 2026 open September 19 — Japan's first in 32 years, with 469 golds at stake
Dates — September 19 to October 4, 2026, sixteen days in Aichi Prefecture and the city of Nagoya
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Sports · 5 min readWhat the KBO wild card is — why fourth place starts with a free win
Who — the fourth and fifth-place finishers contest one place in the quarter-playoff
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Sports · 4 min readWhat a magic number is — and why draws break it in Korean baseball
Definition — the combined count of your wins and your rival's losses needed to clinch
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Sports · 3 min readSamsung tops the KBO standings after August 17 — by .002
Samsung 51-32-2 (.614) first, LG 52-33 (.612) second — a gap of .002
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Sports · 2 min readSon Heung-min's scoring streak ends at four — LAFC lose 1-0, miss top spot in the West
Result — LAFC 0-1 San Diego FC at BMO Stadium on August 16, 2026; Anders Dreyer's 87th-minute penalty decided it
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Sports · 3 min readKim Do-yeong hits his 35th home run of 2026 on August 15
The homer — fourth inning, August 15, 2026 at Gwangju-KIA Champions Field; a 120-metre solo shot off a 142km fastball. His 34th came three days earlier
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Sports · 2 min readSon Heung-min's LAFC out of the Leagues Cup — unbeaten and fifth
LAFC 1-1 Querétaro (5-3 on penalties) — one win, two draws, seven points, no defeats
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Sports · 3 min readKBO results for August 12, 2026 — leaders KT win 7-3, second-placed Samsung lose
Results — Doosan 6-3 Hanwha, LG 8-3 Kiwoom, SSG 8-4 Lotte, KIA 3-1 Samsung, KT 7-3 NC
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Sports · 2 min readKorean baseball stopped for five days of heat — and pushed 25 games into November
25 games cancelled Aug 5–9; all ten clubs return Aug 11, with KIA and NC playing for the first time in 11 days
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Sports · 1 min readGlasgow closes the Games, Ahmedabad takes the flag
The closing ceremony filled Glasgow's Hydro arena on Sunday night, 2 August
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Sports · 2 min readWhy MLS counts wins before goal difference
Unlike European leagues, MLS breaks points ties on total wins before goal difference
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Sports · 2 min readSon scores in fourth straight, draw keeps him second
Son opened the scoring in the 37th minute at Vancouver, a fourth consecutive league goal
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Sports · 2 min readSon takes All-Star MVP in 35 minutes
Son scored in the 20th and 23rd minutes of his first MLS All-Star Game and took MVP