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Pennsylvania visits Princeton after Lee’s 20-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. Pennsylvania Quakers (9-12, 1-5 Ivy League) at Princeton Tigers (16-3, 4-2 Ivy League) Princeton, New Jersey; Saturday, 6 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Princeton hosts the Pennsylvania Quakers after …

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Vermont visits Brown and UMBC

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. Vermont Catamounts (18-6, 8-1 America East) at UMBC Retrievers (7-17, 2-7 America East) Baltimore; Saturday, 1 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: UMBC takes on the Vermont Catamounts after Dion …

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Steelers defensive lineman Heyward receives Walter Payton Man of the Year award at NFL Honors

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers defensive lineman Cam Heyward received the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year award on Thursday night at NFL Honors. Prince Harry introduced Heyward. “Prince freakin’ Harry,” a stunned Heyward said. This was the sixth time the Steelers nominated Heyward for the award. He created the Heyward House Foundation that supports several initiatives in …

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Denver plays Sacramento on 3-game win streak

Denver Nuggets (36-16, second in the Western Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (29-21, seventh in the Western Conference) Sacramento, California; Friday, 10 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK NBA LINE: Kings -1; over/under is 232.5 BOTTOM LINE: Denver seeks to extend its three-game win streak with a victory over Sacramento. The Kings are 18-13 in Western Conference games. Sacramento ranks third in the …

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AP NFL Comeback Player Voting

The voting for the 2023 NFL Comeback Player of the Year selected by The Associated Press in balloting by a nationwide panel of media: (Voting is on a 5-3-1 basis) Joe Flacco, Cleveland, 13-26-8=151 Damar Hamlin, Buffalo, 21-7-14=140 Baker Mayfield, Tampa Bay, 10-10-13=93 Matthew Stafford, Los Angeles Rams, 1-6-7=30 Tua Tagovailoa, Miami, 4-0-1=21 Brock Purdy, San Francisco 1-0-1=6 Calvin Ridley, …

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UN experts take Russia to task over deported Ukrainian children and a ‘military agenda’ in schools

GENEVA (AP) — A panel of U.N.-backed experts that focuses on children’s human rights called Thursday on Russia to prevent efforts to rewrite school curricula and textbooks to reflect the government’s “political and military agenda,” including over the war in Ukraine. The Committee on the Rights of the Child held two days of hearings in Geneva last month before presenting …

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Sheriff’s deputies corral wayward kangaroo near pool at Florida apartment complex

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A wayward kangaroo was corralled safely by sheriff’s deputies Thursday after it was spotted hopping around the pool area of a Florida apartment complex. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office released video and still photos of the kangaroo, including some footage shot from a helicopter. The agency also released audio of a female resident of the complex …

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Hampton hosts Hofstra after Deng’s 21-point performance

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. Hofstra Pride (13-10, 6-4 CAA) at Hampton Pirates (5-18, 0-10 CAA) Hampton, Virginia; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Pride -11; over/under is 146.5 BOTTOM LINE: Hampton …

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Microsoft’s Nadella woos Indian developers to the company’s AI tools

BENGALURU, India (AP) — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged in a speech to more than a thousand Indian computer code developers on Thursday that they use the company’s artificial intelligence tools being deployed across its products. Speaking in Bengaluru, India’s “Silicon Valley,” Nadella noted that more than 13.2 million Indian developers are currently on GitHub, an internet hosting service for …

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