PHOENIX (AP) — Kevin Durant scored 31 points, Bradley Beal had 30 and the Phoenix Suns — with All-Star Devin Booker sidelined by a sore left hip — beat the Utah Jazz 129-115 on Thursday night. The Suns never trailed, winning their third straight game and 12th of 15. They also swept the four-game, regular-season series from the Jazz. It …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo sparred at the United Nations over the latter’s ban of the use of the Serbian currency in areas where minority Serbs live, the latest crisis between the two governments. Tensions escalated after the government of Kosovo, a former Serbian province, banned banks and other financial institutions in the Serb-populated areas …

PARIS (AP) — Metz snapped a seven-game losing streak in drawing at Marseille 1-1 in the French league and will rue not taking advantage of facing 10 men for more than an hour on Friday. A defeat in Marseille would have equalled Metz’s worst losing run and its hopes were raised after 30 minutes when Marseille captain Samuel Gigot was …

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. Pepperdine Waves (9-16, 2-8 WCC) at Loyola Marymount Lions (10-13, 3-6 WCC) Los Angeles; Saturday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Pepperdine visits the Loyola Marymount Lions after Jevon …

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. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Derrin Boyd scored 29 points, including a game-winning reverse layup in the final second, and Lipscomb defeated Queens 90-88 on Thursday night. Boyd was …

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. Prairie View A&M Panthers (9-13, 4-5 SWAC) at Bethune-Cookman Wildcats (10-12, 5-4 SWAC) Daytona Beach, Florida; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Prairie View A&M faces the Bethune-Cookman …

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. SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Chris Bell scored a career-high 30 points and made eight 3-pointers, Quadir Copeland was credited with a basket after a goaltending call with 3.8 …

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — California’s governor announced plans Thursday to send prosecutors to Oakland in his latest move to crack down on rising crime in the San Francisco Bay Area city where brazen robberies in broad daylight have drawn national attention. Gov. Gavin Newsom days earlier said he would deploy 120 California Highway Patrol officers to also help with targeted …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The majority of new head coach Dave Canales’ staff is now set in Carolina. The Panthers have agreed to terms with Brad Idzik as their new offensive coordinator and Tracy Smith as special teams coordinator, and also announced that Ejiro Evero has been retained as defensive coordinator. Idzik and Smith both worked with Canales in Tampa …

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — It’s now or “Neverkusen.” Xabi Alonso has coached Bayer Leverkusen to its best chance in years of finally winning the Bundesliga. The ultimate test comes on Saturday when Leverkusen hosts 11-time defending champion Bayern Munich. Leverkusen has not lost any of its 30 games in all competitions this season — the only unbeaten team in any …