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Thursday, February 28, 2013
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New Jersey Lawmakers Legalize Online Gambling
New Jersey is just a Governor?s signature away from becoming the third state in the country to legalize online betting:
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) ? New Jersey legislators gave final approval Tuesday to a bill legalizing gambling over the Internet, sending it to Gov. Chris Christie, who has indicated he will sign it quickly.
The state Assembly and Senate passed an updated version of the bill that Christie vetoed on Feb. 7, making the changes he asked for including setting a 10-year trial period for online betting, and raising the taxes on the Atlantic City casinos? online winnings.
Assuming Christie signs the bill ? he said last week he would do so quickly if the legislature made the changes he wanted ? New Jersey would become the third state in the nation to legalize gambling over the Internet. It also would represent the largest expansion of legalized gambling in New Jersey since the first casino began operating in Atlantic City in 1978.
Nevada and Delaware have passed laws legalizing Internet betting, which also is going on offshore, untaxed and unregulated.
?Finally, some good news for Atlantic City?s future,? said state Sen. Raymond Lesniak, one of the strongest proponents of online gambling. ?Internet gaming will give an immediate boost to the outlook for Atlantic City?s future, preventing the closing of at least one casino, and saving thousands of jobs. Now we can get to work making Atlantic City the Silicon Valley of Internet gaming by being the hub for other states to join.?
The idea is to help the struggling casinos by attracting new gamblers who are not now visiting the casinos. The comps, like free hotel rooms, show tickets, meals or other freebies, would be accrued from online play, but would have to be redeemed in person at a casino, presumably enticing a player to spend more money while there.
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The bill would allow gamblers in other states to place bets in New Jersey as long as regulators determine such activity is not prohibited by federal or any state?s law. It even has provisions for allowing people in other countries to play, although federal law would have to be changed before that could happen, Lesniak said.
There have been efforts in Congress in recent years to life the Federal ban on offshore online gambling, ?most recently a joint effort by retired Congressmen Ron Paul and Barney Frank. If Congress doesn?t act, then perhaps the states will start taking action themselves.
Source: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/new-jersey-lawmakers-legalize-online-gambling/
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Google?s Chrome Super Sync Sports Turns Your Smartphone?s Browser Into A Game Controller
Google’s Super Sync Sports Chrome Experiment is what happens when you put modern web technology, smartphones and a love of 80s sports games into one rather wacky package where cupcakes race moose heads for virtual gold. The new game, which Google announced this morning, runs in your desktop browser, but you use your smartphone or tablet as the game controller to make your avatars run, cycle and swim. Super Sync Sports uses new browser technologies like the HTML5 audio, CSS3, SVG and Canvas, but the highlight is obviously its use of the Touch API to recognize the gestures you make on your mobile device and WebSockets to make sure your phone(s) and browser stay in sync. Up to four players can join in every race. We’ve seen our fair share of cool browser demos recently, but Super Sync Sports’ ability to turn your mobile browser into what is essentially a very basic Wii U GamePad clearly shows how far our mobile and desktop browsers have come over the last year or so. To get started, you have to fire up Super Sync Sports on your desktop browser and mobile phone or tablet (Android 4.0+ and iOS 4.3+). After choosing whether you want to play a multiplayer or single-player game, you simply type a sync code into the web app and then it’s off to the races. The music will quickly drive you crazy, but the overall experience is quite a bit of fun, especially if you manage to recruit a few other people to play with you. Google says it will publish more information about how it built this experience in the next few weeks. Until then, you can always use your browser’s built-in developer tools to take a look under the hood.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/rh615BqG4ck/
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Meek Mill Preps Dreamchasers 3 While Dreaming Up Wale Mixtape
After he drops Dreamchasers 3, Meek Mill thinks he and Wale can give the fans 'something new and different.'
By Rob Markman
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Asus Zenbook Prime Touch UX31A-BHI5T
Run down the laundry list of what makes a great ultrabook, and chances are the Windows 8-equipped Asus Zenbook Prime Touch UX31A-BHI5T11 ($1,199 list) has it: Stylish, thin design? Check. Touch-enabled full HD display? Check. Great battery life? Check. And so on. While it isn't entirely free of faults?its paucity of storage capacity spring to mind?the good easily outweighs the bad. It's the high-end ultrabook to beat.
Design and Features
The first thing that you'll notice when you pull the UX31A-BHI5T out of the included fabric sleeve is its undeniably attractive design. Its svelte brushed aluminum chassis measures 0.7 by 12.8 by 8.8 inches (HWD) and, at only 3.20 pounds, it's among the lightest touch-enabled ultrabooks that we've seen, including the Samsung Series 5 UltraTouch NP540U3C-A01UB (3.83 pounds) and the Dell Inspiron 15z-5523 (5.19 pounds). With its impressively compact body, the UX31A-BHI5T fits into your bag just as easily as two or three magazines.
The UX31A-BHI5T's 13.3-inch display is, quite literally, a site to behold. With a full HD resolution of 1,920 by 1,080 and built-in IPS (in plane switching) panel, the display's stellar color reproduction and wide viewing angles handily complement its class-leading 1080p resolution. Taken as a whole, the UX31A-BHI5T's display is indisputably superior to that of the 1,366-by-768 resolution displays found in most comparable ultrabooks, like the Samsung NP540U3C-A01UB and Dell 15z-5523. Moreover, the display's capacitive touch functionality is pleasantly responsive, so pinching, zooming, scrolling, and Windows 8-specific functions?like bringing up the Charms menu or swiping through open apps?can be pulled off smoothly. The UX31A-BHI5T's Bang & Olufsen ICEpower speaker do a good job delivering crisp audio, and although its maximum volume lacks the oomph to make the windows rattle, this is an understandable limitation in the tinny-sounding realm of ultrabooks.
The chiclet-styled keyboard makes for a fairly comfortable typing experience. For such a thin system, it largely succeeds in sidestepping the shallow key travel that often plagues ultrabooks. Moreover, it's brightly backlit and doesn't exhibit any noticeable flexing, so the end result is all-around good keyboard. The system's smooth and responsive touchpad provides a good amount of tactile feedback and sports left- and right-click buttons that don't exhibit any unappealing clackiness.
As if often the case with ultrabooks, port selection on the UX31A-BHI5T is limited. The left side of the system houses a USB 3.0 port, a 2-in-1 card reader (SD, MMC), and a headphone jack. The right side, meanwhile, sports another USB 3.0 port, a micro HDMI port, and a mini VGA port, the latter of which can be outfitted with the included mini VGA to VGA dongle. The micro-HDMI port is puzzling, as the similarly sized former high end ultrabook Editor's Choice Asus Zenbook Prime UX32VD-DB71 has a full-sized HDMI port. The UX31A-BHI5T comes equipped with Intel's Wireless Display technology (WiDi 2.0), so you can stream HD video from your system to any television outfitted with an adapter, like the Netgear Push2TV ($99 list).
The UX31A-BHI5T's 128GB SSD may be too small for some, since only 90.4GB of it is can be used. Thankfully, it ships with a minimal amount of preloaded software. Aside from Office Starter 2010, a trial version of Trend Micro A/V, and some proprietary programs (ASUS Software Suite, ASUS PowerWiz, and so on), extraneous software is kept to a minimum. Asus covers the UX31A-BHI5T11 with a one-year warranty on parts and labor.
Performance
Like the rest of its class?save for the Asus UX32VD-DB71?the UX31A-BHI5T packs a 1.7GHz Intel Core i5-3317U processor and an integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU. Consequently, it yielded very similar performance to its peers on our benchmark tests. Thanks to its speedy SSD, though, the UX31A-BHI5T was able to maintain a slight edge. Its PCMark7 score of 4,510 points trumped the rest of its class, save for the Vizio 14-inch Thin + Light (CT14-A2) (4,819 points). Its Cinebench R11.5 score of 2.40 points, meanwhile, was equal to that of the Vizio CT14-A2 and Asus VivoBook S400CA-UH51 and was bested by the class-leading SamsungNP540U3C-A01UB (2.41 points) by a razor-thin margin and, to a greater extent, the Asus UX32VD-DB71 (3.58 points).
The UX31A-BHI5T also has the chops to tackle moderately intense media creation tasks. It completed our Handbrake video-encoding test in 1 minute 29 seconds, the same as the Dell 15z-5523 (1:29) and a mere second behind the front-running Vizio CT14-A2 (1:28). Similarly, the 5 minute and 31 seconds it took to complete our Photoshop CS6 test was roughly on par with the Dell 15z-5523 (5:33) and only two seconds short of the Vizio CT14-A2 (5:29).
When it came to 3D rendering, the UX31A-BHI5T showcased an unrivaled surefootedness. Its 3DMark11 scores (1,160 points in Entry-level settings; 216 points in Extreme settings) landed at the top of the pile, with the Asus S400CA-UH51 (1,101 and 187 points, respectively) and Vizio CT14-A2 (1,152 points and 208 points, respectively) trailing closely behind. Don't get your hopes up for high-end gaming, though. The UX31A-BHI5T's integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000 didn't have the gusto to break the 30 frames per second (fps) playability barrier on our gaming benchmark tests.
A major area where the UX31A-BHI5T held a clear advantage over its peers is battery life. Its non-removable 50Whr battery lasted an impressive 6 hours 38 minutes on our battery rundown test, or nearly an hour longer than the runner-up HP Envy TouchSmart Ultrabook 4t-1100 (5:48). With other systems clocking in at under five hours?like the Asus S400CA-UH51 (4:18) and Vizio CT14-A4 (4:30)?the UX31A-BHI5T's great battery life becomes all the more apparent.
The Asus Zenbook Prime Touch UX31A-BHI5T isn't the perfect ultrabook. Its limited storage capacity and so-so port selection are obvious shortcomings. Even with these flaws, though, it comes close to delivering a superlative Windows 8 experience. Its brilliant, touch-enabled screen, incredibly thin design, and great battery life, make it worthy of serious consideration. Throw in the fact that its $1,100 price tag is on par with its competitors, and it becomes a no-brainer. This is the ultrabook to beat, and it justifiably replaces the Asus Zenbook Prime UX32VD-DB71 as our Editors' Choice award for high-end ultrabooks.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Long-Lost Continent Found under the Indian Ocean
The beaches of Mauritius contain fragments of a type of rock typical of ancient continental crust ? rock which could have been brought to the surface by volcanic eruptions. Image: http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.9116.1361551494!/image/HIRES%2042-32415022%20reduced.jpg
The drowned remnants of an ancient microcontinent may lie scattered beneath the waters between Madagascar and India, a new study suggests.
Evidence for the long-lost land comes from Mauritius, a volcanic island about 900 kilometers east of Madagascar. The oldest basalts on the island date to about 8.9 million years ago, says Bj?rn Jamtveit, a geologist at the University of Oslo. Yet grain-by-grain analyses of beach sand that Jamtveit and his colleagues collected at two sites on the Mauritian coast revealed around 20 zircons ? tiny crystals of zirconium silicate that are exceedingly resistant to erosion or chemical change ? that were far older.
The zircons had crystallized within granites or other igneous rocks at least 660 million years ago, says Jamtveit. One of these zircons was at least 1.97 billion years old.
Jamtveit and his colleagues suggest that rocks containing the wayfaring zircons originated in ancient fragments of continental crust located beneath Mauritius. They propose that geologically recent volcanic eruptions brought shards of the crust to Earth?s surface, where the zircons eroded from their parent rocks to pepper the island?s sands. The team's work is published today in Nature Geoscience.
Crustal remains
The paper also suggests that not just one but many fragments of continental crust lie beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean. Analyses of Earth?s gravitational field reveal several broad areas where sea-floor crust is much thicker than normal ? at least 25 to 30 kilometers thick, rather than the normal 5 to 10 kilometers.
Those crustal anomalies may be the remains of a landmass that the team has dubbed Mauritia, which they suggest split from Madagascar when tectonic rifting and sea-floor spreading sent the Indian subcontinent surging northeast millions of years ago. Subsequent stretching and thinning of the region?s crust sank the fragments of Mauritia, which together had comprised an island or archipelago about three times the size of Crete, the researchers estimate.
The team chose to collect sand, rather than pulverize local rocks, to ensure that zircons inadvertently trapped in rock-crushing equipment from previous studies did not contaminate their fresh samples. The nearest known outcrop of continental crust that could have produced the Mauritian zircons is on Madagascar, far across a deep sea, Jamtveit notes. Furthermore, the zircons came from Mauritian sites so remote that it is unlikely that humans carried them there.
?There?s no obvious local source for these zircons,? says Conall Mac Niocaill, a geologist at the University of Oxford, UK, who was not involved in the research.
Also, it does not seem as if the zircons rode to Mauritius on the wind, says Robert Duncan, a marine geologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis. ?There?s a remote possibility that they were wind blown, but they?re probably too large to have done so,? he adds.
Other ocean basins worldwide may well host similarly submerged remains of ?ghost continents?, Mac Niocaill notes in an accompanying News & Views article. Only detailed surveys of the ocean floor, including geochemical analyses of their rocks, will reveal whether the splintered and now submerged Mauritia has any long-lost cousins, he suggests.
This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on February 24, 2013.
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Monday, February 25, 2013
White House questioned over donors' access
White House spokesman Jay Carney on Monday answered growing questions about whether big donors to President Barack Obama's nonprofit Organizing for America (OFA) are being promised access to the president.
His answer? Well, kind of.
While Carney had responded "no" when Fox News' Ed Henry asked if a recent report "suggests that access to the president is being sold," his explanation sidestepped the issue. He offered instead a string of policy proposals, definitions and a recitation of campaign finance rules.
On Friday, New York Times reporter Nicholas Confessore wrote of an alleged pay-for-access arrangement through OFA: "Giving or raising $500,000 or more puts donors on a national advisory board for Mr. Obama?s group and the privilege of attending quarterly meetings with the president, along with other meetings at the White House."
On Monday, Carney emphasized that the group, which was born out of the president's campaign committee, is an "independent organization"; that administration officials follow rules regarding separation between outside groups and the administration; and that the president supports campaign finance transparency.
When pressed again to explain the reports, Carney referred questions to OFA.
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Senate panel plans Tuesday vote on Lew nomination
FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2013, file photo Jack Lew, President Barack Obama's choice to be treasury secretary, testifies during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Finance Committee. Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, says the committee will vote on Lew's nomination Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, said Lew had answered the committee's questions "in a thorough and fully transparent manner" and that the committee has conducted a "thorough review" of the nominee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2013, file photo Jack Lew, President Barack Obama's choice to be treasury secretary, testifies during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Finance Committee. Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, says the committee will vote on Lew's nomination Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, said Lew had answered the committee's questions "in a thorough and fully transparent manner" and that the committee has conducted a "thorough review" of the nominee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee says the committee will vote on Tuesday on the nomination of former White House chief of staff Jack Lew to be treasury secretary.
Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana says in a statement that Lew has answered the committee's questions "in a thorough and fully transparent manner" and the committee has conducted a "thorough review" of the nominee.
Lew would succeed Timothy Geithner in President Barack Obama's second-term Cabinet.
Some of the toughest questions he faced during his confirmation hearing dealt with his short time at Citibank. Lew was a top executive during the height of the financial crisis.
On policy matters, he addressed Europe's debt crisis, U.S.-China relations and the 2010 financial regulatory overhaul.
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ZTE Grand Memo hands-on: a Galaxy Note competitor without a stylus (video)
Nothing's changed since last we saw ZTE's Grand Memo in Hong Kong last January. But the Chinese OEM's trotting it out once again at MWC 2013 here in Barcelona, reintroducing the palm-stretching device for the global press. From the name alone, it's clear that ZTE's angling this tabletphone (sorry, no stylus included) at Samsung's successful Note line; a competition that's already been won by the recently unveiled and incredibly massive Note 8. The Grand Memo's specs have remained the same -- 5.7-inch 720p TFT display, quad-core 1.7GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro, 1GB RAM, Android 4.1.2 and 13-megapixel rear camera module -- but now we have an English-language demo to walk you through it. So check out the video tour after the break and stay tuned for our live coverage of ZTE's press event.
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Fire at Bluffton course destroys dozens of golf carts
A fire burned through a shed Friday night at Eagle's Pointe Golf Course in Bluffton, destroying 50 to 75 golf carts.
The Bluffton Township Fire District was called to the fire at about 7:30 p.m., according to Capt. Randy Hunter.
Though the fire was under control by 8:15, firefighters had to continue spraying the ruins with thick, white flame-retardant foam because of battery acid from the carts, Hunter said. There were no injuries.
As of 10 p.m., fire investigators could not get close enough to the shed to start investigating the cause and origin of the fire because of smoldering debris, Hunter said. It also hadn't been determined what time the fire started, he said.
Brent Carlson, the course's general manager, declined to comment because he had not yet spoken with authorities at Textron Financial Corp., the company that owns Eagle's Pointe. That company also owns Crescent Pointe Golf Course, which is about four miles southeast off U.S. 278.
Both courses have been for sale since 2009, according to news reports.
This is the second fire at a cart shed in southern Beaufort County since November.
A cart shed at a golf course on Hilton Head Island burned down Nov. 26. That fire, at Bear Creek Golf Club in Hilton Head Plantation, was caused by arson and destroyed 52 golf carts, authorities have said.
Source: http://www.islandpacket.com/2013/02/22/2390622/fire-at-bluffton-course-destroys.html
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GOP House panel chairman will consider gun bills
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The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Friday that he's interested in writing legislation this year improving background checks for gun buyers and cracking down on illegal firearms sales.
In an interview, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., provided little detail about his plans. But he said the federal background check system should be fixed to make sure more people with serious mental illnesses don't get firearms.
Criminals and people with significant mental problems are among those barred by federal law from buying guns. States are supposed to supply the federal background check system with purchasers' mental health records, but often they do not because of privacy rules and other barriers.
"We want to improve that system to try to screen out people who should not be able to possess firearms," Goodlatte said.
Until now, House GOP leaders have only said they will wait to act until the Democratic-run Senate produces legislation. The Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., could begin writing its own gun curb measure in the next week or two.
Goodlatte did not say when his panel might write legislation, but he said he would not necessarily wait for the Senate to pass legislation.
President Barack Obama has proposed near-universal background checks. Currently, the checks are only required for purchases from federally licensed gun dealers, not sales between private individuals at gun shows, online or elsewhere.
Goodlatte said his legislation would be unlikely to require private background checks for private gun sales between people.
Obama also wants to ban assault weapons and ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds. Goodlatte said he opposes those ideas.
Goodlatte did not say when his panel might write legislation. His comments that the House would begin acting on gun legislation were first reported by Roll Call, a newspaper that covers Congress.
Details remain unclear about the mental health of Adam Lanza, who shot 26 people to death at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school in December. But shooters in some recent mass shootings have been afflicted with mental problems, including those involved in the Virginia Tech killings in 2007 and the 2011 Tucson attack that killed six people and wounded 13, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.
As other congressional Republicans have done, Goodlatte also complained that current gun laws are not being enforced sufficiently. He and other GOP members of the Judiciary Committee wrote letters Friday to Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, asking for data on federal firearms prosecutions for the past 11 years.
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Orbital test-fires engines on Antares rocket
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Orbital Sciences Corp. lights up the engines on its Antares rocket for a hot-fire test at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia on Friday.
By Tariq Malik
Space.com
Orbital Sciences Corp. has successfully tested the engines for a new private rocket designed to send cargo to the International Space Station.
The Virginia-based company test-fired the first-stage engines of its new Antares rocket for 30 seconds Friday night at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Va. NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, also based on the island, supported the so-called static fire engine test, which involved having the Antares rocket fire its engines without leaving the launch pad.
"This pad test is an important reminder of how strong and diverse the commercial space industry is in our nation," Phil McAlister, director of commercial spaceflight development at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said in a statement released after the test. "A little more than one year after the retirement of the space shuttle, we had a U.S company resupplying the space station, and another is now taking the next critical steps to launch from America?s newest gateway to low-Earth orbit."
Orbital Sciences is one of two private spaceflight companies with billion-dollar NASA contracts to provide unmanned cargo delivery missions to the International Space Station. Under its $1.9 billion contract, Orbital Sciences will make at least eight delivery flights to the space station using its Antares rocket and robotic Cygnus spacecraft. The first Antares rocket test flight is expected later this year. [Antares Rocket and Cygnus Explained (Infographic)]
California-based SpaceX is the other company with a NASA contract for unmanned space station deliveries. SpaceX has a $1.6 billion contract to fly at least 12 missions to the space station using its Dragon space capsules and Falcon 9 rocket. The company launched both a test flight and a bona fide delivery mission to the space station in 2012. The second delivery flight under the contract is slated to launch on March 1.
An animation shows how Orbital Sciences Corp.'s unmanned Antares-Cygnus launch system would be used to resupply the International Space Station.
With NASA's retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2011, the space agency is relying on new private rockets and spacecraft to ferry cargo ? and eventually astronauts ? to and from low-Earth orbit. NASA is currently dependent on Russia, Europe and Japan for cargo deliveries to the space station. Russia's Soyuz spacecraft are the only vehicles currently available to ferry astronauts to and from the station. ?
Friday's engine test marked Orbital's second attempt to check the Antares rocket's dual AJ26 rocket engines, which are designed to provide 680,000 pounds of thrust. A first attempt on Feb. 13 was aborted before engine ignition due to a "low pressurization" detection during a nitrogen purge in the rocket's aft engine compartment, Orbital officials said.
The test took place at Pad-0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, which is located on the eastern shore of Virginia. It set the stage for a full-up flight test of the Antares rocket, and then a demonstration flight as part of Orbital's contract under NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, also known as COTS.
"Following the successful completion of the COTS demonstration mission to the station, Orbital will begin regular cargo resupply flights to the orbiting laboratory through NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract," NASA Wallops officials said.
This report was updated by NBC News Digital. You can follow Space.com managing editor Tariq Malik on Twitter?@tariqjmalik.?Follow Space.com on Twitter?@Spacedotcom. We're also on?Facebook?and?Google+.?
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
CBS Sports Wire: Cobbs' last-second jumper gives Cal win over Oregon
EUGENE, Ore. -- Even after an uneven performance, Justin Cobbs got his wish.
With the score tied and time running out, Cobbs drained a long jump shot with 0.7 seconds left to send California past No. 23 Oregon 48-46 on Thursday night.
The shot, which came after the Golden Bears (17-9, 9-5 Pac-12) ran nearly all of the final 26 seconds off the clock, hit nothing but net.
"Pure as the driven snow," Cal coach Mike Montgomery said.
The shot was bit of redemption for Cobbs, who had a team-high 14 points to go with eight rebounds and seven assists. But the junior guard also had a team-high eight turnovers.
But with the game on the line, he asked for the ball.
"Just the whole game I felt like I had a lot of mental lapses and I owed it to my team," Cobbs said. "I've been working on my jump shot a lot and I knew if I got the ball in the right spot I'd be able to knock it down."
Allen Crabbe, the Pac-12's leading scorer, had 12 points on 5-of-12 shooting. Richard Solomon also had eight points and 11 rebounds.
Arsalan Kazemi had 11 points and a season-high 18 rebounds for the Ducks (21-6, 10-4), who lost their 11th straight game to the Bears. Carlos Emory scored 13 points for Oregon, which hasn't beaten Cal since Feb. 9, 2008.
Oregon lost sole possession of first place in the Pac-12 with the loss. The Ducks are tied with Arizona.
Cal, meanwhile, continued its climb up the rankings with its sixth win in seven games. The Bears are tied with Arizona State for third place, one game behind the Ducks and Wildcats.
"The last game against California, I told Coach I let him down, I didn't play my best," said Kazemi, who had 10 points and six rebounds in a 58-54 loss to Cal three weeks ago. "And it really hurts right now sitting here and not winning this game."
The Ducks' season-low 27.6 percent shooting led to a season low in points. Oregon was 16 for 58 from the field, 2 for 15 from 3-point range and 12 for 20 from the free throw line.
"That's really a disappointing loss," said Oregon coach Dana Altman, who was going for his 600th career win. "The guys played awfully hard, but you got to hit some shots. We had some open looks and didn't knock them down."
Oregon, which led 26-21 at halftime, was up 46-43 with 2:06 to play when Robert Thurman recorded a three-point play for Cal on a dunk and free throw to tie it.
Oregon had possession with under a minute to play but missed on two shots before Cal got the rebound and called a timeout with 26.3 seconds left.
In the huddle, Cobbs asked for the final shot.
"He wanted it, he felt it, he said, `Give me the ball. Give me the ball,"' Montgomery said. "He made that shot. It was fabulous."
Cal trailed by 11 points in the first half but came back to tie the score 29-29 on a dunk by Thurman 4 minutes into the second half.
Oregon went back up 37-33 on a free throw and 3-pointer by E.J. Singler, but the Bears followed with a 6-0 run and Cobbs hit a jumper to put them up 39-37 with 7:12 to play. It was Cal's first lead since early in the first half.
Trailing 41-39, Oregon followed with five straight points to go ahead 44-41 with 3:30 to play, setting the stage for Cal's final heroics.
Kazemi had 14 rebounds and six points in the first half, and Emory sparked Oregon early after Cal scored the first six points of the game.
The senior forward came off the bench to score nine points in a 16-2 run that put the Ducks up 16-8 at the 10:18 mark.
Each goaltender made outstanding saves later in the second to keep the game at 2-2. Schneider made a nice skate save on Benn at 12:55 and Nilstorp denied Burrows' breakaway attempt at 17:35.
I saw him at the side, thought maybe he would tip it and sure enough, he pulls it," Schneider said. "Somehow I swung my leg around and got a toe on it. It was a little bit of luck, but I was able to stay with him."
Source: http://www.bbstate.com/news/648440
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