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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. Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs (11-14, 6-4 Big South) at Charleston Southern Buccaneers (8-15, 4-6 Big South) North Charleston, South Carolina; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Gardner-Webb visits Charleston …

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Two-time batting champion Luis Arraez tried to win his salary arbitration case for the second straight year on Tuesday, while Tampa Bay reliever Jason Adam failed to become the first player in five years to win twice in a row. Arraez asked a panel for $12 million instead of the Miami Marlins’ $10.6 million offer. A …

A 45-year-old man was arrested in the theft of a bronze Jackie Robinson statue that was cut off at the ankles and found days later smoldering in a trash can in a city park in Kansas, police announced Tuesday. Ricky Alderete was taken into custody earlier this month in a kidnapping case and charged Monday with four counts stemming from …