Swimming
The List Without Our Name: Swimming's Hall of Fame Class of 2027 and the Politics of Keeping Receipts
Smith's 0.11 Seconds and South Africa's 3.97-Second Breaststroke Gap
A ‘Loaded Match-Up’ Without a Single Time: Virginia’s Dynasty, NC State’s Depth and the CSL Format Audit
0.11 Seconds, 700 Spectators and Mirpur's Old Ledger
Skins, Jackpots and a New League: Swimming's Format War Opens in Illinois
Skins, Jackpots and a New League: Swimming's Format War Opens in IllinoisMy deck diary runs on three kinds of ink: one pen writes times, one writes...
The Converted-Time Trap: Estonia's Junior Champion and the NCAA's Quiet Finishing School2:17.93. 2:30.85. Same swimmer. Same event — the 200m individual medley. The...
The 0.74 Seconds With the Wrong Address: ASIAD 2026, Marchand's Fear, and the Arithmetic of Japan's Third ManI read swimming news in numbers, not sentences. Sentences can be arranged....
A 'Loaded Match-Up' With No Times: Virginia's Dynasty, NC State's Depth, and the Real Test Called the CSLA 'Loaded Match-Up' With No Times: Virginia's Dynasty, NC State's Depth, and...
College Swimming League Match 1: The Show Arrived, the Stopwatch Went QuietThe swim meet at FMC Natatorium in Westmont, Illinois, did not end when the...
The List Without Our Name: Swimming's Hall of Fame Class of 2027 and the Politics of Keeping ReceiptsA List at the Karnaphuli Bank One December afternoon on the bank of the...
Smith's 0.11 Seconds and South Africa's 3.97-Second Breaststroke GapThe scoreboard gave two numbers. One for the headline, one for understanding....
A ‘Loaded Match-Up’ Without a Single Time: Virginia’s Dynasty, NC State’s Depth and the CSL Format AuditFour college teams raced in the same pool last night. The report says the...
The Weight of 29.50 Seconds: Tatjana Smith's Return and One Empty ColumnThe report landed on my desk on 25 September, and the entire performance case...
Same Golds, Thinner Depth: Why China's 62-to-54 Slide Is the Real Story of the 2026 Asian Games Swimming TableEveryone reads the first column of a medal table. I stop at the second and...
Virginia vs NC State: The 'Loaded Match-Up' Headline Has No Times, Only HistoryLast night a college swimming headline caught my eye: “loaded match-up.” Four...
0.11 Seconds, 700 Spectators and Mirpur's Old LedgerIn the last week of September, at a 25-yard pool in the United States, the...
The Arithmetic of Fear: From the Asian Games Pool to Mirpur's Open TankIn December 2026 I stood beside the open 50-metre pool in Mirpur as the only...
The Converted-Time Trap: Estonia's Junior Champion and the NCAA's Quiet Finishing School2:17.93. 2:30.85. Same swimmer. Same event — the 200m individual medley. The...
The 0.74 Seconds With the Wrong Address: ASIAD 2026, Marchand's Fear, and the Arithmetic of Japan's Third ManI read swimming news in numbers, not sentences. Sentences can be arranged....
A 'Loaded Match-Up' With No Times: Virginia's Dynasty, NC State's Depth, and the Real Test Called the CSLA 'Loaded Match-Up' With No Times: Virginia's Dynasty, NC State's Depth, and...
College Swimming League Match 1: The Show Arrived, the Stopwatch Went QuietThe swim meet at FMC Natatorium in Westmont, Illinois, did not end when the...
The List Without Our Name: Swimming's Hall of Fame Class of 2027 and the Politics of Keeping ReceiptsA List at the Karnaphuli Bank One December afternoon on the bank of the...
Smith's 0.11 Seconds and South Africa's 3.97-Second Breaststroke GapThe scoreboard gave two numbers. One for the headline, one for understanding....
A ‘Loaded Match-Up’ Without a Single Time: Virginia’s Dynasty, NC State’s Depth and the CSL Format AuditFour college teams raced in the same pool last night. The report says the...
The Weight of 29.50 Seconds: Tatjana Smith's Return and One Empty ColumnThe report landed on my desk on 25 September, and the entire performance case...
Same Golds, Thinner Depth: Why China's 62-to-54 Slide Is the Real Story of the 2026 Asian Games Swimming TableEveryone reads the first column of a medal table. I stop at the second and...
Virginia vs NC State: The 'Loaded Match-Up' Headline Has No Times, Only HistoryLast night a college swimming headline caught my eye: “loaded match-up.” Four...
0.11 Seconds, 700 Spectators and Mirpur's Old LedgerIn the last week of September, at a 25-yard pool in the United States, the...
The Arithmetic of Fear: From the Asian Games Pool to Mirpur's Open TankIn December 2026 I stood beside the open 50-metre pool in Mirpur as the only...