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Air Force has lost all four of its games this season that were decided by three or fewer points, which is either horrible luck or a fatal flaw in the clutch, depending on what you believe.

Most people who rely heavily on statistics for analysis could look at Air Force as being a bit unlucky. If Colorado’s tying shot had fallen off the rim with 11 seconds left on Nov. 23, if one of Air Force’s two open 3-pointers at Drake on Dec. 3 were good, if a game-tying 3-pointer at TCU or Michael Lyons’ short shot vs. UNLV had fallen last week, Air Force could be 15-4. Instead, Air Force lost all those games and go into tonight’s game against New Mexico with an 11-8 record.

Fans of advanced stats will say close games like those should be about 50-50 propositions, and that a record like Air Force’s 0-4 in close games is a product of bad luck in a small sample size.

Coaches usually don’t buy into that type of thinking.

“It’s certainly something we need to do better,” Falcons coach Jeff Reynolds said about his team’s play late in games.

To Reynolds, the coin flip nature of the last shot isn’t the issue. Against UNLV, the Falcons made mistakes down the stretch that kept them from putting the game away long before the final possession. He talked about not getting a couple of key stops in the final minutes, and a turnover by guard Todd Fletcher late in regulation, when he tried throwing a long pass, that led to a UNLV basket. Instead of being tied in the final seconds of regulation, Reynolds thought the Falcons could have been up by at least a couple baskets.

“We need to be more consistent on each end of the floor when the game is in striking distance,” Reynolds said.

Then, on the final possession of regulation and the final possession of overtime, Reynolds said each time a player was a couple of steps out of position in the offensive set, allowing his defender to help, which affected the play.

“Rather than talk about ‘We’re close, and here we go again,’ we talk about, ‘It’s execution time, it’s about taking care of your business and doing your job completely,’” Reynolds said.

UNLV won two close games last week, winning in overtime at Boise State before beating Air Force in overtime. Rebels coach Dave Rice thinks there is a tangible skill to playing down the stretch. In a last-second loss against San Diego State, he said he didn’t coach the final possession well, and the players didn’t execute it well. He said the team learned from that experience and was ready for similar situations in both games last week.

“I think there’s always a little bit of luck in anything we do, but I think a bigger part of it is good teams do win close games over the course of the season,” Rice said. “Good teams learn from adversity.”

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THE Isle of Man TT Races received another huge boost from the TT3D film ‘Closer to the Edge’ when CinemaNx Chief Executive Steve Christian was interviewed on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Radio Two this morning. The show has a weekly audience of over 8 million listeners and is the most popular radio show in the UK.

The interview, where Steve featured as the ‘mystery guest’ came about when Chris was inundated with supportive texts the previous day when he mentioned TT3D Closer to the Edge on his show.

Sports presenter Vassos Alexander introduced Steve by saying that he was ‘the driving force’ behind the film and that it ‘put the move into movie’ before Chris began the 3-minute interview with Steve Christian. During the interview Steve was able to give a brief history of the event while Chris encouraged everyone to be inspired by the film’s strapline ‘just because you’re breathing, doesn't mean you’re alive’ – a quotation from its star Guy Martin.

The CinemaNx team also arranged for Chris to receive a copy of the DVD and invited him to visit the Isle of Man for this year’s event.

This is the second high profile boost that the film has provided this month, following the endorsement from respected F1 Williams team owner Sir Frank Williams who described the film as ‘unbelievable’ in his monthly column in leading Motorsport magazine ‘F1 Racing. Sir Frank also went on to add that ‘If you haven’t seen the documentary Closer to the Edge, go and get it on DVD’ and revealed ‘my family got bored of hearing me say how good it is, so I started telling the dog.’

Hon John Shimmin, MHK, Minister, Department of Economic Development commented:

‘This is a great example of the benefits that the Isle of Man and the TT Races continue to receive from the film long after its original release date.  This high profile appearance on the leading breakfast radio show, and the endorsement from someone as respected as Sir Frank Williams, demonstrates the impact that the documentary continues to have.’

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This is a great example of the benefits that the Isle of Man and the TT Races continue to receive from the film long after its original release date.

John Shimmin, Department of Economic Development

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January 31, 2012 |

It's started out as a great 2012 for technology stocks. So far, the tech-heavy Nasdaq has stomped the Dow Jones Industrial Average, returning 7.7% versus the Dow's 3.6% return.

Taking a peek at the top performers in the Internet and services space, you'll find a few key themes.

It's a global list. The top four performers are all from China. In addition, Net 1 Ueps hails from South Africa. Many of these stocks were horribly beaten down in 2011. Renren (NYSE: RENN  ) is of particular note for being one of the biggest busted IPOs of 2011. Did I mention China? Seven of these companies on the list are from China. While the Shanghai Composite is up a reasonable 5% so far in 2011, we're talking some extreme outperformance in the list below.

Top 10 Internet and services stocks of January

Company

% Price Change

VanceInfo Technologies (NYSE: VIT  )  57.0 AsiaInfo-Linkage  50.2 Renren  47.9 Youku.com (NYSE: YOKU  )  47.5 Net 1 Ueps Technologies  44.1 Parametric Technology  41.3 SouFun Holdings  37.4 NetQin Mobile  36.6 Ancestry.com (Nasdaq: ACOM  )  35.1 SINA (Nasdaq: SINA  )  34.5

Source: S&P Capital IQ. Includes only companies with U.S. listings and market caps greater than $300 million. All prices through Jan. 27.

Will the rest of 2012 be as kind to these highflyers of the new year? Here's an amazing fact: While outperformer lists early in the year are normally riddled with companies that smoked earnings during the first few weeks of January, only one stock in the list above has reported earnings! That's Parametric, which unsurprisingly earned its spot by beating earnings. For example, top performer VanceInfo doesn't have any particularly exciting news this year aside from an analyst upgrade.

What's driving that level of outperformance? For one, many technology growth stocks were heavily sold across the summer of 2011. As investors begin nibbling on more risk again, those stocks have come back in vogue. China reported GDP far more robust than the market was expecting earlier in 2012, and that's led investors back into the country.

Also, there's some pretty key tailwinds at the backs of other companies. As players in the social media space, both Renren and SINA will get to ride momentum from Facebook's upcoming IPO. Likewise, both Ancestry.com and Youku are also seen as fringe social media players that could ride the momentum of a positive Facebook IPO.

That's it for our recap of the Internet space. However, if you're looking for a better stock idea to kick off 2012, we've uncovered one such stock with so much promise we've dubbed it "The Motley Fool's Top Stock for 2012" and created a special free report for investors to uncover this soon-to-be rock star. The report highlights a company that is revolutionizing commerce in Latin America, and you can get instant access to the name of this company. Thousands have already requested the report, which is free today, but it won't be forever, so access it now.

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28-01-2012 06:03 People with sensitive ears or headphones may have a vested interest in adjusting their volume near the 22 minutes mark. Ah... man, that last bit. I think it's a little unfortunate. Like, I understand the 'why' of it, dude needed a way to get rid of all the lives, and more or less a way to 'punish' getting lives along the way, that makes sense. But the method just seems strange to me, since the level more or less encourages you to just get all those lives anyway so you actually have the abilty to run fast enough. Otherwise you just can't catch up unless you perform in some crazy flawless way that has nothing to do with the game's previous platforming expectations. Again, it's just too bad! But think of it this way: that last dot took me litteraly as much time to go through as the rest of the whole video. http://www.raocow.com http

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