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Sam Underhill has withdrawn from England’s Six Nations squad with a hip injury and been replaced by Wasps’ Jack Willis.

Fifteen years ago this month, Kobe Bryant put up 81 points against the Toronto Raptors and redefined what was possible for a perimeter player in the NBA. An almost peerless feat of scoring, the game remains the most compelling distillation of a legacy that still reaches far and wide.

Liverpool have ranked among the top five clubs of the Deloitte Football Money League for the first time in almost 20 years.

England enjoyed the perfect start to a huge year of Test match cricket with a 2-0 series victory in Sri Lanka, as Dom Sibley and Jos Buttler combined to lead the tourists to a six-wicket win in the second Test in Galle.

Floyd Mayweather is so rich that, instead of allowing his burly security guards to travel on his private jet, he pays for a separate aircraft because he is worried that their weight might affect gravity.

Jose Mourinho says Frank Lampard’s sacking at Chelsea demonstrates the brutality of modern football management.

Relive how Joe Root’s England beat Sri Lanka by six wickets in the second Test in Galle to take the series 2-0.

Of the various factors that contributed to Frank Lampard’s demise at Chelsea, his inability to get the best out of Timo Werner and Kai Havertz will go down as one of the biggest.

Joe Launchbury (injury) and Joe Marler (personal reasons) have withdrawn from England’s squad for the Six Nations.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says he remains in the process of contract negotiations with Lewis Hamilton and is confident a new deal will be struck before pre-season testing in March.