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. Hiring former LSU basketball coach Will Wade came with no small measure of risk for McNeese State athletic director Heath Schroyer. “I had a lot of people email …

Pittsburgh Penguins (28-27-8, seventh in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (25-33-4, eighth in the Atlantic Division) Ottawa, Ontario; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The Ottawa Senators look to break their seven-game skid when they take on the Pittsburgh Penguins. Ottawa has gone 17-14-2 at home and 25-33-4 overall. The Senators are seventh in the league serving 10.8 penalty …

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey and the nation were not prepared when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and the state “remains underprepared for the next emergency,” according to an independent report examining New Jersey’s response to the pandemic that sickened nearly 3 million people statewide and killed over 33,000. The report released Monday faults planning, communication and decision-making before and …