Sports Home > 2026 Features > Commonwealth Games 2026 Glasgow prepares to host a compact, 10-sport Commonwealth Games in 2026. Commonwealth Games 2026 at a Glance The 2026 Commonwealth Games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland from July 23 to August 2, 2026 . Following Victoria's withdrawal, Glasgow stepped in to host a streamlined version of the event. The Games will feature exactly 10 sports (down from 19 in 2022) and host approximately 3,000 athletes from 74 Commonwealth nations and territories. All events will take place across four existing venue clusters , completely eliminating the need for new public infrastructure funding. For a few tense months in late 2023, athletes across the Commonwealth wondered if the 2026 Games would happen at all. When the Australian state of Victoria pulled out due to estimated costs approaching AUD 7 billion, the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) fa...
Expected Assists (xA) Explained: The Metric That Changed Football 1. The Genesis of Quantification: From Binary Outcomes to Probabilistic Process The history of association football analysis has long been dominated by a fixation on terminal events. For over a century, the sport’s statistical currency was minted almost exclusively in goals and, largely as an afterthought, assists. This binary accounting system—where an action either resulted in a goal or it did not—created a fundamental disconnect between performance and evaluation. In this traditional framework, creativity was judged solely by the competence of the finisher, tethering the playmaker’s statistical legacy to factors entirely outside their control. ...