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US sports say parity is essential for success. The Premier League proves that’s untrue | Leander Schaerlaeckens

There are no salary caps and no luxury taxes, yet the world’s most-watched soccer league is only getting more balanced David Stern used to tell a joke. In his early years as NBA commissioner, he liked to say, his job was essentially to travel back and forth between Boston and Los Angeles to hand out

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Brave Köln push Bayern but will it be enough to bring calm to Effzeh? | Andy Brassell

Amid grumbles, a winless run and negative banners, there are signs of life for Köln after a narrow loss to the champions We didn’t see this coming, and not only because of the fog of pyro lingering over the RheinEnergieSTADION field that furnished us with 11 minutes of first-half stoppage time. In October’s equivalent fixture

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Raducanu stunned by wildcard Preston in Hobart after tough Australian Open draw

Australian Taylah Preston, world No 204, wins 6-2, 6-4 Raducanu could face Sabalenka early in Melbourne Emma Raducanu ended her preparations for the Australian Open with a miserable 6-2, 6-4 defeat by Taylah Preston, a 20-year-old Australian wildcard, in the quarter-finals of the Hobart international. As the top seed in Hobart, a small WTA 250

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