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. Idaho State Bengals (13-19, 8-11 Big Sky) vs. Northern Colorado Bears (19-12, 12-6 Big Sky) Boise, Idaho; Sunday, 10 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: Northern Colorado and Idaho State …

DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — Las autoridades vieron la luna creciente el domingo por la noche en Arabia Saudí, hogar de los lugares más sagrados del Islam, marcando el inicio del sagrado mes de ayuno del Ramadán para muchos de los 1.800 millones de musulmanes del mundo. El mes sagrado, en que quienes lo observan se abstienen de comida …

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander anotó 23 de sus 37 puntos en la segunda mitad y el Thunder de Oklahoma City se repuso a una desventaja de 14 unidades para vencer el viernes 107-100 al Heat de Miami. Gilgeous-Alexander concretó 13 de 25 disparos de campo y 9 de 11 tiros libres. El segundo mejor anotador de la NBA …

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. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The queue began at breakfast time, about nine hours before Iowa played in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals, when black-and-gold-clad fans with general admission tickets …

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. Notre Dame Fighting Irish (12-18, 7-12 ACC) at Virginia Tech Hokies (17-13, 9-10 ACC) Blacksburg, Virginia; Saturday, 2:30 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Hokies -10; over/under is 134.5 …

TUBA CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Melissa Blackhair is not eager to spring forward Sunday. “I’m dreading it. I just don’t want to see how much we have to adjust,” Blackhair said while sitting in her home office in Tuba City on the Navajo Nation, the only area in Arizona that follows daylight saving time. With her husband working during the …

TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) — Every year, in the first week of March, hundreds of giant paper-mache bulls stuffed with fireworks are erected in the front yards of the Mexican town of Tultepec. Thousands of restless fingers carefully cut, pasted and painted the colorful patterns that brought the “toritos” to life on Friday, during an annual celebration when the bull-shaped figures …

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s State Land Office will withhold lease sales indefinitely on its most promising tracts for oil and natural gas development in the Permian Basin as it seeks approval by the state Legislature to increase top-tier royalty rates, Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard said Thursday. Bills have repeatedly stalled in the Democratic-led Legislature, including this …

DUBLIN (AP) — According to Ireland’s Constitution, a woman’s place is in the home. Irish voters will decide Friday — International Women’s Day — whether to change the 87-year-old document to remove passages the government says are outdated and sexist. The twin referendums are on deleting a reference to women’s domestic duties and broadening the definition of the family. While …

NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) — The Atlanta Braves reassigned Ken Giles to their minor league camp Friday, ending the former closer’s bid to make the opening day roster. Giles, who has 115 career saves over stints with Philadelphia, Houston and Toronto, agreed to a non-roster deal with the Braves in hopes of getting his injury plagued career back on track. …