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No-one was hurt and reports suggest the robbers had their faces covered, they left in a car.
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Send your images of the desert blooms to isee@nbcsandiego.com.
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A former Naval yard is soon to be a place of peace as the Navy hands off ownership to the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
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The land sits at the northern end of the bay, according to the CC Times, and will increase the existing reserve by 25 percent.
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It's been through many changes over the years. It was in the 1940s that the Navy first took the land over, and then ran military operations until the mid-90s.
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Around the same time that the Army left the Presidio, the Navy began handing the land over to the Fish and Wildlife Service.
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It's still unclear what the finished product will look like. It's likely that the public will have limited access, but wildlife officials will need to be careful to protect the habitat of threatened species like the marsh harvest mouse and California clapper rail.
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Public tours of the area are likely to start in the next few months, but it could be years before restoration is complete and full public access is arranged.
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Yes, Chromecast is compatible with your iPhone and iPad. Simply tap the square icon in the upper right side of your device’s screen to launch Chromecast. The square will turn white to indicate that Chromecast is activated on your device.
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* Keep in mind that Chromecast is an option, not a requirement, when using the PBS app.
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Chromecast is a thumb-sized media streaming device that plugs into the HDMI port on your TV. After plugging it in to your TV, all of the content you are viewing on your phone or tablet will appear on your TV screen.
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Iowa State could be on a path toward its first nine-win football season in almost two decades.
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AMES, Ia. — Iowa State’s weekend without a football game is a wonderful opportunity to reset game-by-game predictions that appeared in this space during the preseason.
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According to those August picks, I had the Cyclones with three wins through the first half of the season. So far, so good — although one of the three was in the South Dakota State game that didn’t happen.
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I went on to write that Iowa State would win four more games, finish 7-5 during the regular season and then beat Utah in the Dec. 26 Cactus Bowl in Phoenix for the school’s second eight-win season in a row.
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Now, with Incarnate Word (3-3 heading into Saturday’s game against McNeese State) being tagged onto the end as South Dakota State’s replacement — let’s revisit, and then revise, what I wrote two months ago.
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What happens: If defensive coordinator Jon Heacock and his guys can hold West Virginia's Will Grier to just 100 passing yards, then I figure they’ll find a way to beat Kliff Kingsbury’s pass-happy Red Raiders.
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If JaQuan Bailey and Jamahl Johnson (and, by then, a healthy Ray Lima) keep Texas Tech guessing as much as they bewildered West Virginia with multiple fronts, coverages and pressure, then this will be a doozie of an 11 a.m. game.
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What happens: Everyone was giddy after the Jayhawks won two of their first three games — against Central Michigan and Rutgers. OK.
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At least there was some good news coming out of Lawrence, I guess, when you compare that 2-1 start with basketball coach Bill Self getting negative headlines in the Adidas trial. But Kansas football quickly became the Kansas football we expected. Coach David Beaty is still fighting to keep his job, and they're headed to Week 8 just like we thought they would: without a Big 12 victory and the worst defense in the league.
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What happens: I wrote in August that the Bears would be the Big 12’s most improved team, and they are. I said they’d play in a bowl game, too, and that coach Matt Rhule’s name would continue to be floated in NFL circles.
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Baylor’s defense has been solid overall, yet not so solid against the rush. Charlie Brewer has proven to be a pretty good quarterback, but remember what Iowa State did against Grier?
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What happens: I’ll borrow from what I wrote in August: It’s been eight years since Iowa State won a game at Texas. It was so long ago — 2010 — that Longhorns coach Tom Herman was the Cyclones’ offensive coordinator.
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What happens: The Cyclones end their 10-game losing streak in this series, that’s what happens.
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For the first time since Iowa State beat the Wildcats 31-20 in Ames in 2006, the Cyclones finally beat Kansas State. Some fans thought Bill Snyder’s team would contend for the Big 12 title, which isn’t happening. They’ve been to eight bowl games in a row, and that streak is iffy right now.
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Revised prediction: Iowa State 34, Kansas State 21. There won’t be any penalty flags curiously removed from the grass, and I guarantee you that Snyder’s coaching future will be the game-week conversation. And this will be the Cyclones’ annual Senior Day game, despite the Incarnate Word finale still to go.
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What happens: The Cardinals were 3-3 at their midpoint, and I doubt they’re as bad as Iowa State fans probably think. I’ve even heard some people predict Campbell not playing all his starters in this game. That’s wrong.
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All healthy regular starters will start; however, they’ll likely not play much more than a half. It should be a good game for the Cyclones' freshmen to show their stuff.
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Updated prediction: Iowa State 34, Utah 24 in the Cheez-It Bowl. Yes, the Cactus Bowl is now the Cheez-It Bowl, for those keeping score at home. It changed names since the preseason column.
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Prediction: It’s the first game since Ruffin McNeill replaced Sooners defensive coordinator Mike Stoops. That unit faces a turnover-prone TCU offense, so there’s that. The Horned Frogs will have the best defense on the field, but it won’t be good enough to do much rattling of Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray’s cage. Furthermore, If TCU couldn’t slow mobile Texas Tech quarterback Jett Duffey, is there reason to believe it will bother Murray? I think not.
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Prediction: Don’t turn the ball over too many times against a Kansas outfit with four interceptions and a fumble recovery against the Big 12, and all should be fine for the Red Raiders. Statistically, the Jayhawks' defense is the Big 12’s worst after giving up an average of 508.0 yards a game in their first three conference games. Kansas continues destined toward an oh-fer Big 12 season.
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WASHINGTON - The top US commander in Afghanistan said on Thursday that there was a need for a "holistic review" of the relationship with Pakistan, adding that it was supporting the Taliban and undermining the Afghan government.
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"Our complex relationship with Pakistan is best assessed through a holistic review," Army General John Nicholson, who leads US and international forces in Afghanistan, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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The United States has cut both military and economic aid to Pakistan sharply in recent years, reflecting mounting frustration among a growing number of officials with the nuclear-armed country's support for the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan.
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"The Martian" is Scott’s second biggest opener behind "Hannibal" in 2001, and it's Damon’s second biggest opener behind "The Bourne Ultimatum" in 2007. Depending on final numbers for Sunday ticket sales, due out Monday, "The Martian" might inch past the $55.8 million opening of "Gravity."
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"Everest," which took a similar strategy to "The Walk," came in at seventh in its third weekend, adding $5.5 million. The film, about an infamous 1996 expedition on the world’s highest mountain, has made about $33.2 million at the domestic box office.
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In limited release, Lionsgate’s “Freeheld” grossed $40,000 in five locations, a per screen average of $8,000. Fox Searchlight's documentary “He Named Me Malala,” directed by David Guggenheim, opened strong with $56,000 in just four locations, a per screen average of $14,000.
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10:29 a.m. This article was updated with studio comments and other details.
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The original version of this pots published at 9:32 a.m.
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The initial public offering of Ruckus Wireless on Friday highlights the growing importance of Wi-Fi in mobile networks as service providers try to meet the demands of smartphone and tablet users.
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Ruckus, a maker of Wi-Fi network gear based in Sunnyvale, Calif., focuses on products for carrier-owned networks in public places as well as for enterprises. Though it is dwarfed by its main competitors, Ericsson and Cisco Systems, Ruckus is riding a wave of growth in Wi-Fi for the kinds of mobile services that used to be solely the province of cellular networks, industry analysts say.
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Wi-Fi is one of many technologies for solving the so-called spectrum crunch that carriers say could degrade mobile service, according to Ruckus CEO Selina Lo.
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Ruckus began operations in 2004 and has about 600 employees, giving it just a fraction of the overall size and experience of rivals Ericsson and Cisco. But in a filing on its planned IPO to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ruckus said its revenue in the first nine months of this year was 93 percent higher than in 2011’s first nine months, reaching $152.5 million. The company said its profit also grew.
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Listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RKUS, the company offered 8.4 million shares at $15 per share, raising about $126 million. The stock dipped after the market opened and was down $0.70 at $14.30 in midday trading. Lo downplayed the company’s first-day performance. “It’s too bad that the stock market is currently not very strong,” she said.
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“We’re not looking at a day or a week or even a year,” Lo said. “For us, this is part of the process of building a long-term strong company.” Going public will give Ruckus more credibility with service providers, she said.
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The company’s new capital might also go into acquisitions. “If I see a technology that makes sense, certainly I will not be shy about going after it,” Lo said.
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Cellular carriers rely mostly on their own licensed frequencies to carry their subscribers’ data traffic. But despite the growing efficiency of mobile technologies such as LTE, the service providers foresee such heavy use of mobile data in the coming years that they think their networks may run out of capacity to carry it all. Older 3G networks have already given subscribers maddeningly slow performance in some areas when bandwidth-hungry new devices such as the iPhone became suddenly popular.
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Wi-Fi is available to any service provider that wants to supplement its own spectrum, because it’s built into almost all mobile devices and runs on frequencies no one owns. Wireless analyst Craig Mathias of Farpoint Research estimates there is about 800MHz of Wi-Fi spectrum available around the world, compared with 20MHz in a typical pair of cellular bands used by a carrier.
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Mobile operators such as AT&T have made big investments in Wi-Fi and are likely to turn to it even more with the emergence of standards that let service providers shift their users from cellular to Wi-Fi networks invisibly, Mathias said.
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“Wi-Fi is definitely a tool that carriers are looking at to deal with mobile data,” Ovum analyst Daryl Schoolar said. Ovum estimates carrier Wi-Fi shipments will grow 84 percent this year from 2011 and will increase by an average of 34 percent per year through 2017. Ericsson, the world’s biggest maker of traditional mobile network gear, earlier this year acquired Wi-Fi vendor BelAir Networks and said it would integrate Wi-Fi with new small cells that are designed to boost network capacity in densely populated areas. Cisco CEO John Chambers said on Tuesday that his company would do the same.
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Ruckus has also competed against larger rivals with Wi-Fi gear for homes and businesses. The company has worked to set itself apart by developing new technologies Those include interference-avoiding antennas, real-time traffic prioritization tools, and software that allows its access points to organize themselves in a mesh and be managed easily. Ruckus also offers access points that can accommodate integrated small cells.
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In its filing this month, Ruckus claimed 18,700 customers worldwide, with more than 7,100 added in the first nine months of this year. Those customers include U.S. cable operators Bright House Networks and Time Warner Cable, Japanese mobile operator KDDI, and The Cloud, a public-access Wi-Fi business run by British carrier BSkyB. About 65 percent of the company’s revenue comes from outside the U.S.
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One risk factor for Ruckus is its reliance on large service-provider customers, which have substantial negotiating leverage against the company, and the loss of one big customer could adversely affect its business, the company warned in its SEC filing.
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But while the traditional cellular base-station industry may be a steep challenge to enter, the emergence of carrier Wi-Fi is a new opportunity, Ovum’s Schoolar said.
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“Ruckus has certainly made themselves a major player in this market,” he said.
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This week, Galaxy device maker, Samsung, opened their first retail "experience" store in Sydney, Australia. The design of the store is quite swish, featuring the company's blue look, right down to the t-shirts on its employees backs.
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There's a dedicated customer support desk that is run by "Samsung Smart Tutors", that mimics Apple's Genius Bar. There's also a group demonstration bar, displays, and more products than you can find stars in a... galaxy.
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Some have said that Samsung's new store looks too much like an Apple Store, but Samsung's corporate color is blue. Last time I checked, Apple haven't got the patent on the color blue. As for the design of the store itself, there's only so many ways a store can be laid out when showing off smart devices, too.
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NEW YORK | Facebook is giving more details about its effort to connect remote parts of the world to the Internet --and it involves drones, lasers and satellites.
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that Facebook is hiring "key members of the team" from Ascenta, a U.K. company whose founders created early versions of the world's longest-flying solar powered drone.
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The announcement comes days after Facebook announced a $2 billion deal to buy virtual reality startup Oculus.
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Zuckerberg has said that access connectivity is not the main obstacle to getting the world online. He noted at the Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona, Spain last month that more than 80 percent of the world's population live in areas with 2G or 3G wireless access. More important, he said, is giving people a reason to connect: basic financial services, access to health care information and educational materials.
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Facebook's acquisition of a company called Onavo last fall also fits with Internet.org's vision. Onavo develops data compression technology, which helps applications run more efficiently. This is especially important in developing countries, where people have access to much slower Internet speeds.
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More than one hundred protesters rallied Wednesday night outside Ottawa police headquarters on Elgin Street.
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“No justice, no peace. No racist police!” they shouted as police looked on.
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The protesters are demanding that two Ottawa police officers, Const. Dave Weir and Const. Daniel Montsion be held accountable in the death last month of Abdirahman Abdi.
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The officers are under investigation by the Special Investigations Unit, the civilian oversight agency that investigates incidents involving police where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.
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Abdi’s aunt, Khadra, who did not want her last name used, spoke through a translator to express her family’s anguish over her nephew’s death.
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She said that Abdi’s mother has not been able to sleep since watching her son die on the sidewalk in front of his Hilda Street apartment building.
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“She is living in anguish. She’s got anxiety. She keeps playing it in her head and can’t shut it off,” said Khadra.
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The protest was one of many across the country in recognition of Abdi’s death. In Toronto, Black Lives Matter members blocked off the SIU building entrance and parking lot Wednesday morning demanding more police accountability.
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“We know that it is not an isolated case, and we could be the next one,” said Bilan Arte of the Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition who attended the Ottawa protest on Wednesday night.
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Despite the fact that the investigation into Abdi’s death is ongoing, BLM Toronto and other protesters say they are skeptical of the SIU’s investigations. Protesters at the Ottawa rally said they don’t trust the SIU to investigate the Abdi case and have demanded that the agency make public its report along with any race-related data it has collected.
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“We know that the SIU has had a history of a 90-per-cent clearance rate for police officers,” said Arte.
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In a statement Wednesday in response to the Toronto protest, the SIU said BLM Toronto has made a number of demands related to how the Special Investigations Unit fulfils its mandate, but it would not comment on specific demands.
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The SIU said that the Ontario government has already appointed Ontario Court of Appeal Justice Michael H. Tulloch to lead an independent review of the SIU and two other agencies that oversee police. That review was announced in April.
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The decision for the review followed the SIU’s report on the death of Andrew Loku, an unarmed South Sudanese immigrant, in the hallway of his apartment building in Toronto. The officer who shot Loku was not charged.
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Leila Moumouni-Tchouassi, also of Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition, said it is time for Ottawa and Canada to recognize that there is systemic racism.
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Ottawa police said they chose to close the station 30 minutes early because of the combination of the protest and construction around the building, which only gives officers only one exit to leave the building.
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The Cerritos College men’s basketball team capped off its third win in a row after facing off against Compton College Jan 30.
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This win puts them at 3-0 in the conference and back in the driver’s seat in first place.
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This was another large margin victory for the Falcons beating Compton 90-73, following Friday’s 46-point rout against conference foe El Camino.
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When playing against undersized teams such as the Tartars, the Falcon’s objective for games is to exploit the match-ups and pound the ball into the paint.
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Though the scoring onslaught didn’t ignite until midway into the first half, Cerritos managed to penetrate the Compton offense by rotating from zone and man-to-man defenses throughout the game.
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On the other hand, Compton’s offense shot 41 percent from behind the arch, not to mention a Steph Curry-esque three at the buzzer to end the first half.
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The times they did make it into the paint the Cerritos bigs were there with the help defense.
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Early in the second half, sophomore guard Christian Alvis-Labadie suffered a fall on his ankle fighting for a rebound.
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The fall shocked the crowd and he was carried off of the court by teammates.
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Freshman guard No. 13 Chance Hunter led the charge in rebounds, contributing 14 of the squads 47 total boards.
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As the proclaimed “head of the horse” by fellow guard, No. 1 Cody Wilkes, scoring opportunities begin and end with Hunter.
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Just as Wilkes feeds off of Hunter, No. 5 point guard Tawon Elston feeds off of Wilkes. The prolific scorer says he takes a while to get going on the offensive side of the ball. He is a second half player, and it showed with most of his 14 buckets coming later in the game. This gave the Falcons some insurance.
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Wilkes led the Birds in scoring with 18 points shooting 7-12 from the field, and 4-8 from three.
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Feeling as though inconsistency had struck early in the season, the sophomore guard feels that finding consistency now, referring to this three-game win streak, will be good as the playoffs approach.
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When asked about how high the team could fly this year he smiled and said, “I think we can go all the way. We’re hitting our run now, which is good, instead of in the beginning and middle.
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We started off strong then kind of fell off, but everything is coming back along now. As long as we stay on the same page we’ll be good,” he said.
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The coach believes that the team is playing its best basketball thus far and that there is room for his men to grow. With playoffs only three weeks away, they hope to continue that stretch dominance.
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Cerritos men’s basketball will square off at second place Los Angeles Southwest Friday Feb. 1 at 5 p.m., in an attempt to maintain their status as top dog in the SCC.
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AC MILAN ended a run of three Serie A games without a win to scrape past Bologna to win 2-1 at the San Siro.
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Giacomo Bonaventura proved to be the hero for Gennaro Gattuso's side as he scored either side of a Simone Verdi strike.
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It was Gattuso's first win in charge of the Rossoneri, as Milan jump up to seventh in the Italian top-flight.
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