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. East Tennessee State Buccaneers (14-14, 6-9 SoCon) at Samford Bulldogs (24-4, 13-2 SoCon) Birmingham, Alabama; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bulldogs -12; over/under is 150 BOTTOM …
Read More »Kayla DiCello takes gold in USA Gymnastics Winter Cup. Olympic champ Sunisa Lee falls on bars, beam
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kayla DiCello allowed herself to sit and chill after a better-than-expected start to her season. Olympic champion Sunisa Lee was a bit steamed at herself for literally missing the high bar she set — twice, in fact. DiCello seized the accolades projected for some of her higher-profile counterparts by winning the uneven bars and floor exercise …
Read More »Heat’s Jimmy Butler, 3 others, ejected after scuffle with Pelicans
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Miami’s Jimmy Butler was among four players ejected after a scuffle early in the fourth quarter in the Heat’s 106-95 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night. “I don’t think I should have gotten thrown out of the game,” Butler said, noting that he was trying to keep Pelicans forward Naji Marshall away from …
Read More »Bastoni scores late as Empoli continues improvement under Nicola with 3-2 win at Sassuolo
MILAN (AP) — Substitute Simone Bastoni scored deep in stoppage time to help Empoli snatch a 3-2 win at Sassuolo on Saturday in a Serie A relegation fight and continue its positive run under Davide Nicola. Bastoni was brought on with 10 minutes remaining and headed in a rare — and important — goal in the fourth minute of time …
Read More »Holy Cross plays Navy following Kenney’s 25-point game
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. Holy Cross Crusaders (9-19, 6-9 Patriot League) at Navy Midshipmen (9-17, 5-10 Patriot League) Annapolis, Maryland; Sunday, 2 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Holy Cross faces the Navy Midshipmen …
Read More »Utah visits Colorado following Simpson’s 30-point outing
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. Utah Utes (16-10, 7-8 Pac-12) at Colorado Buffaloes (17-9, 8-7 Pac-12) Boulder, Colorado; Saturday, 9 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Buffaloes -5.5; over/under is 154 BOTTOM LINE: Colorado …
Read More »Saint Bonaventure defeats UMass 75-67
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. AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Chad Venning had 16 points in Saint Bonaventure’s 75-67 victory against UMass on Saturday. Venning added 10 rebounds for the Bonnies (17-10, 8-7 Atlantic …
Read More »Kansas man pleads guilty to causing crash that killed officer, pedestrian and K-9 last February
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas man has pleaded guilty to smashing into a Kansas City, Missouri, patrol car last year and killing an officer, his K-9 partner and a pedestrian. Jerron Lightfoot of Tonganoxie, Kansas, pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of involuntary manslaughter and admitted speeding through a red light before the crash, according to the Kansas …
Read More »Griffin, Wyoming Cowboys take on the Boise State Broncos
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. Boise State Broncos (18-8, 9-4 MWC) at Wyoming Cowboys (13-13, 6-7 MWC) Laramie, Wyoming; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Sam Griffin and the Wyoming Cowboys host Tyson …
Read More »‘Oppenheimer,’ Lily Gladstone win at 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards
“Oppenheimer” continued to steamroll through Hollywood’s awards season on Saturday, winning the top prize, for outstanding cast, along with awards for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr., at the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards. As the Academy Awards draw closer, Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic — already a winner at the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs — has increasingly looked like …
Read More »El campeón defensor Norrie queda fuera del Abierto de Río; los argentinos Báez y Navone a la final
RíO DE JANEIRO (AP) — El campeón defensor Cameron Norrie quedó eliminado del Abierto de Río el sábado con una sorpresiva derrota en sets consecutivos ante Mariano Navone, tenista procedente de la fase clasificatoria. El argentino de 22 años venció al británico por 6-4, 6-2 para avanzar a su primera final en el circuito, donde jugará contra su compatriota Sebastián …
Read More »23 Hindu devotees die in northern India after a farm tractor overturns and falls into a pond
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A farm tractor pulling a wagon loaded with Hindu devotees overturned and fell into a pond in northern India on Saturday, killing at least 23 people, including eight children, officials said. The wagon was carrying around 40 devotees on their way to take a ritual bath in the Ganges River when it veered off the road …
Read More »Van Gytenbeek’s free throws cap wild finish, No. 24 Baylor women edge No. 22 West Virginia 66-65
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. MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Jana Van Gytenbeek came off the bench to make two free throws with 4.3 seconds left and No. 24 Baylor pulled out a wild …
Read More »Brown and Nicholls State host Texas A&M-Commerce
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. Texas A&M-Commerce Lions (10-17, 4-10 Southland) at Nicholls State Colonels (14-12, 9-4 Southland) Thibodaux, Louisiana; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Colonels -7.5; over/under is 136 BOTTOM …
Read More »Jen Pawol becomes the first woman to umpire a spring training game since 2007
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It took eight years but Jen Pawol made the leap from the minors to a major league game spring training contest as umpire at the Grapefruit League opener between the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals at CACTI Park of The Palm Beaches on Saturday. Pawol’s spring training debut marked the first time since 2007 …
Read More »