The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (15-7, 4-4 CUSA) at Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (16-6, 6-1 CUSA) Ruston, Louisiana; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bulldogs -9.5; over/under is 150 BOTTOM …

BRUSSELS (AP) — France is siding with UEFA against closed breakaway soccer leagues. On the eve of the UEFA Congress to be held in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron and UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin expressed “their shared vision in favor of the European sporting model, based on open competitions, the principle of solidarity, sporting merit and recognition of the social …

BRUSSELS (AP) — With the embattled U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza teetering on the brink of financial collapse, one of its biggest donors is wavering over whether to extend it a lifeline worth tens of millions of dollars within the next few weeks. Israel’s allegations that 12 employees of the aid agency known as UNRWA participated in the …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Enrique Freeman and Greg Tribble each scored 17 points in Akron’s 68-47 victory against Central Michigan on Tuesday night. Freeman also contributed 15 rebounds …

The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Geno Auriemma allowed himself to get a bit nostalgic after becoming just the third coach in Division I basketball history to reach 1,200 wins. …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Chattanooga Mocs (15-8, 7-3 SoCon) at VMI Keydets (4-19, 1-9 SoCon) Lexington, Virginia; Thursday, 6 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Chattanooga will try to keep its four-game road win …

NUEVA YORK (AP) — Kyrie Irving encestó 36 puntos en un deslumbrante regreso a Brooklyn, exactamente un año después de haber sido canjeado a Dallas, y condujo el martes a los Mavericks a una victoria de 119-107 sobre los Nets. Luka Doncic acabó con 35 unidades, 18 rebotes y nueve asistencias. El tándem de armadores de los Mavericks se turnó …

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Eurovision song “Zorra,” whose title can be translated as an anti-female slur, is causing a storm among conservatives and feminists while Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says he likes it. The song by the duo Nebulossa was chosen Saturday as Spain’s offering for the Eurovision song contest in May. The music platform Spotify had it as …

Vancouver Canucks (34-11-5, first in the Pacific Division) vs. Boston Bruins (31-10-9, first in the Atlantic Division) Boston; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: The Vancouver Canucks visit the Boston Bruins after Elias Lindholm scored two goals in the Canucks’ 3-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes. Boston is 31-10-9 overall and 16-5-3 in home games. The Bruins have gone 30-3-5 …

GENEVA (AP) — A top U.N. official said Wednesday that the two generals in Sudan whose forces have been at war for the last 10 months assured him recently that they would attend a meeting in Switzerland to discuss humanitarian issues and Sudan’s beleaguered civilians. “I’m still waiting to see when that happens,” Martin Griffiths, the U.N. undersecretary for humanitarian …