BOYS PREP BASKETBALL= Bridgeport 69, Liberty Harrison 26 Buckhannon-Upshur 56, Philip Barbour 46 Doddridge County 71, Gilmer County 43 Logan 72, Westside 57 Morgantown Christian 72, Blair County Christian School, Pa. 13 Nicholas County 67, Clay County 50 Ravenswood 69, Wirt County 36 Victory Baptist 44, Cross Lanes Christian 23 ___ Some high school basketball scores provided by Scorestream.com, https://scorestream.com/

Tony Gibson jumped right into recruiting at Marshall in his first college head coaching job after nearly three decades as an assistant. It involved his own players. The roster took an immediate hit after Charles Huff was named coach at Southern Miss on Sunday while Gibson, the defensive coordinator at N.C. State, was announced as his replacement less than an hour later. The transfer portal opened the next day. By Thursday, at least 25 Marshall players were in it. Gibson held a meeting shortly...

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Marshon Lattimore is trending in the right direction to play Sunday after missing time with a hamstring injury, Washington Commanders coach Dan Quinn said. That would allow the four-time Pro Bowl cornerback to make his debut for his new team at the New Orleans Saints six weeks since they traded him at the deadline in early November. Lattimore on Wednesday was a full participant in practice for the first time since the move. “We’ll take it through the whole week,”...

BOYS PREP BASKETBALL= Bath County, Va. 66, Richwood 38 Berkeley Springs 52, Grace Academy, Md. 46 Calvary Baptist 90, Cross Lanes Christian 21 Chapmanville 87, Lincoln County 62 Charleston Catholic 55, Notre Dame 21 Frederick Baptist, Md. 67, Martinsburg Christian 46 Grace Christian 65, Bloomingdale 35 Hannan 85, Paden City 69 Hedgesville 59, Oakland Southern, Md. 20 James Monroe 64, Narrows, Va. 49 John Marshall 90, Magnolia 73 Linsly 78, Austintown-Fitch, Ohio 60 Logan 72, Westside 59 Mingo Central 68,...

DALLAS (AP) — Thomas Boswell, a reporter and columnist for The Washington Post for 52 years until his retirement in 2021, won the BBWAA Career Excellence Award for meritorious contributions to baseball writing. The honor was announced Tuesday by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America at the winter meetings. Boswell will be honored during the Hall of Fame’s induction weekend from July 25-28 in Cooperstown, New York. Boswell, who turned 77 in October, covered every World Series game from 1975...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt and conversational takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality, has died. She was 81. Giovanni, subject of the prize-winning 2023 documentary “Going to Mars,” died Monday with her lifelong partner, Virginia “Ginney” Fowler, by her side, according to a statement from friend...