AMHERST, Mass. — KeShawn Curry posted 18 points as VCU won its seventh consecutive game, topping UMass 77-62. Trent Buttrick led the Minutemen on Saturday with 12 points and eight rebounds.
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Hello all and happy Saturday. It’s almost Fat Tuesday!! Yay!! Tomorrow is looking pretty nice…but slightly cooler than today. We topped out at 69 degrees at the airport today, which is 3 degrees above normal. Tomorrow, we will be 3 degrees below normal, but still not too bad. I expect sunny skies and light winds.
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By Jim Sciutto, Oren Liebermann and Jeremy Herb, CNN Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is encountering “stiffer than expected” resistance from the Ukrainian military as well as unexpected difficulties supplying its forces, two senior US officials with direct knowledge tell CNN. On the battlefield, Russia is suffering heavier losses in personnel and armor and aircraft than
Continue Reading CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Darius Banks posted 16 points and seven rebounds as Chattanooga beat Samford 70-57. Jermaine Marshall led the Bulldogs on Saturday with 17 points and eight rebounds.
Continue Reading MILWAUKEE (AP) — Ben Simmons is dealing with back soreness as the Brooklyn Nets’ new acquisition prepares to make his 2021-22 debut. Nets coach Steve Nash confirmed before Saturday’s game with the Milwaukee Bucks that the three-time All-Star has encountered “just a little soreness in his back.” Nash added that “it’s just kind of like
Continue Reading NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) — Jalen Benjamin scored 19 points and Mount St. Mary’s rolled to a 65-49 win over Central Connecticut. Nigel Scantlebury scored 18 points to lead the Blue Devils.
Continue Reading HIGH POINT, N.C. — Zach Austin had 21 points and 10 rebounds as High Point defeated Hampton 88-77. Bryant Randleman added 20 points for the Panthers. Najee Garvin led the Pirates on Saturday with 19 points and 15 rebounds.
Continue Reading DAVIDSON, N.C. — Luka Brajkovic had 15 points and 11 rebounds to lift Davidson to a 66-45 win over Fordham. Chuba Ohams led the Rams on Saturday with 15 points and 10 rebounds.
Continue Reading GRAMBLING, La. — Bryce Moragne had 16 points and nine rebounds and MJ Randolph recorded 18 points as Florida A&M topped Grambling State 79-73. Prince Moss led the Tigers on Saturday with 16 points.
Continue Reading NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Taylor Robertson beat the buzzer with a 3-pointer to give No. 20 Oklahoma a dramatic 72-69 victory over Kansas State. Robertson took a pass from Nydia Lampkin along the left sideline and drilled the 3-pointer as time was running out. Six of the last seven made baskets were 3-pointers. Twice Kansas
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Corporate partnerships keep falling for Phil Mickelson in the wake of his shocking comments about Saudi Arabia and his involvement in a proposed super league the Saudis are funding. The Desert Sun reports that Mickelson no longer will be tournament host of The American Express in the California desert.
Continue Reading OREM, Utah (AP) — Fardaws Aimaq had 20 points and 16 rebounds as Utah Valley topped California Baptist 63-54. Trey Farrer had 13 points and three assists for the Wolverines (19-9, 10-6 Western Athletic Conference). Taran Armstrong scored a season-high 22 points for the Lancers (15-14, 5-11).
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By Paradise Afshar and Laura James, CNN A Salinas, California, police officer was shot and killed Friday night while conducting a traffic stop, local officials said during a Saturday news conference. The Salinas Police Department identified the slain officer as 30-year-old Jorge David Alvarado, a five-year veteran of the force. At around 10:45 p.m., Alvarado
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, Emiko Jozuka, Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN North Korea launched a ballistic missile off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula on Sunday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The missile was fired from the Sunan area of North Korea at around 7.52 a.m. local time, the Joint Chiefs said.
Continue Reading By Katherine Dillinger, CNN Two preprint studies posted Saturday offer further evidence that the coronavirus originated in animals and spread to humans in late 2019 at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China. One of the studies — neither of which has been peer-reviewed or published in a professional journal — used spatial analysis to
Continue Reading By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — A soccer derby in southern Brazil was postponed after fans injured several players by throwing rocks at their team bus. The soccer body in Rio Grande do Sul state said in a statement it had made the decision about the Internacional vs. Gremio match after
Continue Reading By Eva McKend, Melanie Zanona and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming called out two members of her conference who spoke at an event organized by White nationalist Nick Fuentes. “As Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rep Paul Gosar speak at this white supremacist, anti-Semitic, pro-Putin event, silence by Republican Party leaders
Continue Reading NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — Antonio Reeves scored 28 points as Illinois State routed Indiana State 86-66. Howard Fleming Jr. added 20 points for the Redbirds (12-19, 5-13 Missouri Valley Conference), who snapped a five-game losing streak. Zach Hobbs had 15 points for the Sycamores (11-19, 4-14), whose losing streak stretched to five games.
Continue Reading FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Koby McEwen had 20 points as Weber State easily beat Northern Arizona 73-49. Nik Mains led the Lumberjacks on Saturday with 11 points.
Continue Reading ROCK HILL, S.C. — D.J. Burns Jr. had 22 points and 11 rebounds as Winthrop won its eighth straight game, defeating Charleston Southern 92-86. Drew Buggs added 17 points for the Eagles. Deontaye Buskey led the Buccaneers with a season-high 28 points.
Continue Reading PHILADELPHIA — Khalil Brantley had 17 points off the bench to lift La Salle to a 62-60 win over Dayton. Koby Brea led the Flyers on Saturday with 18 points.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jamal Mashburn Jr. had 24 points as New Mexico edged past Air Force 69-65. Joseph Octave led the Falcons on Saturday with 18 points.
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Dos grandes explosiones iluminaron el cielo nocturno al suroeste de Kyiv en la madrugada del domingo con una detonación que pareció estar aproximadamente a 20 kilómetros del centro de la ciudad. Las explosiones se producen después de que las fuerzas superadas en armas de Ucrania ocuparon la capital de Kyiv por tercer
Continue Reading CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Matthew Cleveland hit a deep 3-pointer at the buzzer and Florida State beat Virginia 64-63 in a wild finish. Florida State hadn’t led since it made the opening bucket and trailed by as many as 11 points in the second half. Armaan Franklin took an inbounds pass, dribbled the floor and
Continue Reading FORT MEYERS, Fla. (AP) — Kierstan Bell and Tishara Morehouse combined to score 44 points to spark No. 24 Florida Gulf Coast to a 78-55 win over Jacksonville to close out the regular season with 26 wins in 28 games. Bell, in her second game back after missing nine games with an injury, and Morehouse
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Celebridades y figuras políticas han expresado su apoyo a Ucrania desde que Rusia invadió esta semana. Ahora viene otro rostro famoso con una conexión personal con la nación sitiada, el actor Ashton Kutcher. Huir del avance de las tropas rusas significa que algunas familias ucranianas están dejando atrás a sus esposos,
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN Business) — No importa a dónde vayas: las hamburguesas de los restaurantes de comida rápida se ven casi iguales, las mismas hamburguesas redondas y planas. Excepto por Wendy’s, que tiene hamburguesas cuadradas. El motivo de la forma atípica de cuatro lados se remonta al fundador de Wendy’s, Dave Thomas. En 1969 abrió
Continue Reading By AL LESAR Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Santiago Vescovi scored 14 points and Zakai Zeigler had 11 of his 13 points in the second half to lead No. 17 Tennessee to a 67-62 victory over No. 3 Auburn. Kennedy Chandler had 13 and Josiah-Jordan James added 10 for the Volunteers, who improved their
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer FONTANA, Calif. (AP) — The beautifully weathered asphalt at Auto Club Speedway is older than Austin Cindric. The Next Gen car that the Daytona 500 champion drove over that asphalt to the pole Saturday is so new that most of the NASCAR Cup Series drivers still haven’t figured out
Continue Reading By GARY HOROWITZ Associated Press CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Tyger Campbell scored a game-high 20 points to lead No. 12 UCLA to a 94-55 victory Saturday at Oregon State. The Bruins’ junior point guard was 8 of 10 from the field, made four 3-pointers, and had five assists. Despite the absence of leading scorer Johnny
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