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Vintage Day welcomes the Fresno community for a weekend of celebration from April 15 to 17. Vintage Day is Fresno State’s largest student-planned celebration that includes, food, refreshments, game booths, live entertainment, Crafts Faire and many more. Vintage Day includes gladiator jousting, rock climbing and more.

OPINION

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CAMPUS

INVEST IN OUR EDUCATION FIRST

By Megan Bronson @Bronsosuarus

The most important spaces on any institution’s campus should be the spaces where students are learning.

The focus of attending a university is to learn. So you would think that a university’s top priority would be making sure that students have access to classes, passionate professors and sound adequate classrooms in which to learn.

Fresno State has been working on adding classes. New class options and majors pop up every year. And now with the California Faculty Association having fought for better and livable wages, students are going to reap the rewards of professors who actually want to teach and can afford to keep teaching.

Fresno State is working on what students are being taught and helping those who teach us, but what they are failing to do is help us with where all of this education takes place. Our classrooms and buildings are in desperate need of repair. They are dated and falling apart.

If the rooms in which we are taught are falling to pieces every year, how can we expect student success to be on the rise? Our learning environment needs to be the next big project this university takes on.

Last semester, the sewage system in the Social Science Building failed twice – once during finals. Students still had to come to class and sit through their finals while literally smelling poop, making the permeating thoughts about our finals really crappy.

How can we be expected to perform at our best when our learning spaces are actively working against us?

Social Science is not the only faulty building on campus. If you happen to be assigned a class in the Lab School buildings, you’d better hope that it is not during the fall semester. These “classrooms” aka, portables, get incredibly hot during the summer, and whether the air conditioning works in them is a roll of the dice.

Students walk through the Rose Garden on Feb. 5, 2016.

If you are not in one of the portables in Lab School, but rather in one of the real classrooms – the thermostats are often bonkers, and when the AC is actually turned on, the lecture is impossible to hear.

So here we sit, broken-hearted, tried to learn, but only sweated.

There are bathrooms in the Science Building that do not even have stall doors, just plastic sheeting. We feel part embarrassment and part begrudging regret for choosing Fresno State as we try to pee while intently watching the plastic sheeting, hoping no one throws it open midstream.

This anxiety makes students not want to take classes in this building – opting out of courses that could have much to teach them.

Most of the classrooms on campus do not offer enough outlets. For a university that is priding itself on its progressive tablet courses and integration of technology in the classroom, we sure don’t have the means to support a lot of these advances.

If you happen to meander into Grosse Industrial Tech, good luck fighting for the few outlets in the classrooms to charge your tablet or laptop.

On top of all of this, multiple colleges on campus do not have a centralized place

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for professors and students to meet. Faculty are often spread out amongst multiple buildings, offering no synergy between students and their professors, students with each other or departments within the same college.

The departments in the College of Arts and Humanities are separated across the campus – not offering students the opportunity to cross paths with a field that shares much common ground.

This is the reality for many departments on campus. Our education could be better built with synergistic intentions to increase discovery, diversity and distinction if we funneled resources into students’ educational needs.

These are only a few examples. All over campus there are decrepit classrooms which are hindering learning. These older buildings on campus need revitalization.

They need the same loving attention and care that we give to the lawns and the aesthetic of Fresno State.

While the way our campus looks is its selling point for future students, how and where it teaches its present students will set a brighter precedent for the kind of student success of which this university is capable.

From the bowels of the anonymous app Yik Yak – a five mile radius from Fresno State

I may appear okay on the outside, but deep down, inside my shoe, my sock is falling off.

“He’s cute, I swear! Let me find a better picture.”

That moment when you convince your friend about choosing a clicker answer but it was the wrong one.

This wind is making me self conscious. Now, everyone can see all my rolls & I’m not a bakery.

Relationship status: hot boy looked at me today in the library because I burped too loudly.

I’ll pay you $7 to have a crush on me.

I’m wearing a push-up bra and can still only do 3 push-ups. Would not recommend.

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CAMP KESEM

Camp helps families affected by cancer

By Jasmine Castrellon @TheCollegian

Making a difference in the lives of children and their families touched by cancer, Camp Kesem hosts several events each year for children whose parents have been stricken by illness.

Camp Kesem’s mission is to create an opportunity for kids between the ages of 5 to 16 to connect with one another. The camp was originally founded by Stanford in 2000, and began at Fresno State in 2014.

Kristine Nachand, a cancer survivor and a mom of three, said her children have attended the camp before and plan to go again this in Santa Cruz.

“They make a reference to Camp Kesem at least once a day,” Nachand said. “What’s special about this camp is that there is a wide range of kids who go through the event together.”

There are 14 Fresno State students who raise money year-round to keep the camps free of cost. Fresno State’s Camp Kesem goal this year is to fundraise $35,000. So far, they have raised nearly $20,000.

Nikki Wheeler, a student counselor for Camp Kesem, said this camp is one of a kind.

“One evening, we do have an empowerment ceremony,” Wheeler said. “That’s where the kids have the time to share their stories about how cancer has affected them and their family and their everyday lives.”

Nachand said that for 15 months she

went through about 60 treatments of radiation and chemotherapy. During those months, her family had to take extra responsibilities during her absence.

“They gave up things for me,” Nachand said. “My oldest, my daughter acted [like] the mom.”

Nachand said when the boys needed something, her oldest would report back to her and fill her in.

“Because of treatments, I wasn’t aware of certain things,” Nachand said. “They grew up a lot in that time.”

Namit Dhesi, one of two directors for Fresno State’s Camp Kesem, said although they put in a lot of hours, she believes it is all worth it.

“We do a lot of planning,” Dhesi said.

“But when we finally get to see the kids, it’s all worth it.”

Dhesi said the best counselors the kids had at camp were ultimately each other.

“Kids are a better support system to each other than the counselors are,” Dhesi said. “You see this 10-year-old comforting a counselor who is crying.”

Dhesi said to be student counselors, they have to go through 20 hours of training and get certified.

“I couldn’t have asked for more,” Nachand said. “The counselors are caring, sincere and genuine.”

Dhesi said this camp has touched a lot of people, and she believes kids should be focused on as well.

“Most people focus on the patient and not the kids,” Dhesi said.

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Camp Kesem hosts a fundraising event at the Free Grace Church April 2, 2016. The Make the Magic event is a formal dinner and silent auction in hopes of fundraising money to bring children whose parents have been involved or is involved with cancer to summer camp for a whole week.

The camp isn’t just for the kids; the camp is for the families as well, because it gave Nachand’s kids a place to get their minds on something other than her cancer and was a place where her kids could just be kids, she said.

“They were able to go to camp without having to take care of me,” Nachand said.

“It was really a gift to the whole family.”

Nachand said one of the hardest things was losing her hair, not because she cared about her appearance, but because she could no longer go to the grocery store or pick up her kids from school without people knowing what was going on.

“Chunks of my hair would fall out,” Nachand said, “The day we had to shave my head it took a couple of hours.”

After her head was shaved, the whole family showered, got dressed and went out to dinner, Nachand said.

“This was after we cried, laughed and then cried some more,” Nachand said. “I didn’t want to stay in.”

Nachand said although treatments were hard, her family stayed strong.

“Out of necessity, they suck together,” Nachand said. “Those things brought us closer together.”

ENTREPRENEUR

Student entrepreneur creates a new way to have a date

By Chueyee Yang @TheCollegian

Sitting on the couch with her fiance, Michelle Turk asked him why he was not as romantic as he use to be.

When Michelle asked her fiance at the time, now husband, Tyler Turk, 25, that question, it made him wonder how he could bring romance back into their relationship.

As a result, he created Date in a Crate, a monthly subscription box service where others can pay to receive a box where it features activities and ideas for a date night.

“We send out a box to our couples that include date night items, activities that are focused on improving and strengthening the relationship, while also giving a fun, spontaneous kind of alternative to date night,” Turk said.

The company started in December 2014, which is when his lifestyle started to change.

“I got four hours of sleep at night,” Turk said. “Every waking moment, every free moment that I do have, is spent on the business.”

While working two jobs, being a fulltime student and working as an entrepreneur, Turk was stressed.

As an entrepreneur, “you have to be able to fight through the hard times to know that there’s an end result,” Turk said. “That there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.”

On Feb. 6, Fresno Chamber of Commerce named Turk College Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2016 Valley Business Awards and Installation Luncheon.

“I really want to use this to grow the business, but also to help other entrepreneurs, college students like me who want to start a business,” Turk said. “My goal is to kind of use my influence as much as I can to help them because I know what it feels like to be a college entrepreneur – you have to balance school while running a business.”

Prior to the launch of Date in a Crate, Turk was a recording artist.

Turk said being a recording artist and an entrepreneur go hand to hand with each other. He had to brand himself, learn how to create his own music, sell his music and get people excited about his performances.

“With songwriting, you have to be able to connect with your readers at some point and same thing goes for Date in a Crate,” Turk said. ‘We have to create and write these date nights that emotionally connect with these people.”

He found an interest in creating music when he obtained a role in his high school’s musical.

Essentially, he had a passion for football, not music, however, after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament [ACL] during his senior year of high school, he decided to audition for his school musical as a joke with his friends.

“I wanted to play college sports,” he said. “I just wanted to play sports somewhere and so I kind of geared my whole life towards that.”

His injury caused him to stop playing sports and made him learn how to pivot.

“I had to learn to pivot and so that’s a big term in entrepreneurship,” Turk said.

“If you go find a problem, you have to pivot

Darlene Wendels • The Collegian

Entrepreneur of the year Tyler Turk shows his in Date in a Crate box in the Lyles Center, Monday, March 7, 2016.

so you can change the business idea and go a different way.”

As an entrepreneur, there are challenges.

“What I have learned with Date in a Crate is you don’t really know what’s going to happen next, you really don’t know who you’re going to meet,” Turk said, “but the

best thing that you could do is prepare for it.”

“I know that if I work hard now,” he added, “I know that there will be a larger reward at the end, whether that’s opportunity, whether that’s financial stability, whether that’s just growing as a person, so I know that I have to work hard now.”

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#SHAREAPAIR

Campaign aims to collect socks and undergarments for kids

Darlene Wendels • The Collegian

Fresno State Public Relations students promote their campaign #ShareAPair at Vintage Days on Friday, April 15, 2016. The #ShareAPair campaign collects socks and undergarments for kids and gives its proceeds to the Marjaree Mason Center and to Catholic Charities.

By Jasmine Castrellon @TheCollegian

Dressed in capes and bright socks, Fresno State Public relations students flew and soared through Vintage Days to promote their campaign #ShareAPair.

Collecting socks and undergarments for kids, #ShareAPair is giving half of its proceeds to the Marjaree Mason Center and the other half to Catholic Charities.

The Marjaree Mason Center is a shelter for women and children that have gone through domestic violence and their mission is to keep the mother and children safe. The Catholic Charities is an organization that helps families get back on their feet through things like getting a job or driver's license.

This campaign is ran by Fresno State public relations students and is taking donations until April 21.

Jacqueline Moreno, a PR student and one of six CEO’s of the campaign said this hits home.

“It really pulls on my heart strings,” Moreno said. “It affects children and to see them without these necessities.”

The campaign has already collected over 400 pairs of socks during a softball game and a baseball game at Fresno State. The campaign's goal is to raise 1,000 pairs of socks and undergarments.

Moreno said there is also a box in the department of journalism and mass communication office for anyone who wants to donate during school hours.

“I’d like to thank anyone who’s already donated,” Moreno said.

Betsy Hays, MCJ professor said this campaign is a project in her advanced class that is all student ran.

“I read an article in a magazine about a women doing something similar in a differ-

ent country,” Hays said.

Hays said that a lot of thought has gone into this campaign.

“A lot of the creativity is really fun to watch,” Hays said. “There are six teams and each team has it’s own CEO and component.”

The six components of outreach are social media, on campus, off campus, social events, special events and media and video, Hays said.

The students are trying to inform as many people as possible through multiple outlets of communications. Every fire station in Fresno has a #ShareAPair box at their station for people to make donations as well.

Hays said she feels an emotional connection because she is a mom.

“There is a need that has not necessarily been met,” Hays said. “This is very easy thing to participate in.”

The PR students have received more socks than undergarments, Terryn Rennie, a campaign student said.

“Undergarments are an awkward thing to donate,” Rennie said. “It’s uncomfortable to think about children without underwear. It’s really sad. I try to put myself in their shoes and I can’t imagine.”

Rennie said that she feels fortunate enough to help out.

“I’m glad we have the opportunity to help these kids out,” Rennie said. “There are families living within the poverty line.”

“It’s really great knowing that we are using PR for ethical reasons,” Rennie said.

“The right reasons.”

The campaign also has an alternative donation outlet that the public can donate to through their personal cell phones by texting the word “GIVE” to (559) 512-7780.

STORYCORPS

Local residents share their stories for StoryCorps

By Chueyee Yang @TheCollegian

She walked with Martin Luther King Jr. during the march and participated in the Civil Rights Movement – Graciela Martinez is one of the many interviewees who participated in StoryCorps.

Hoping to share and preserve stories from 10 pairs of Latinos in the San Joaquin Valley, like Martinez’s, Fresno State’s Henry Madden Library has partnered with StoryCorps.

StoryCorps is a national nonprofit organization founded by Dave Isay in 2003. The organization allows people to participate in recorded interview sessions. They later have the opportunity to share their recorded stories with others.

The event, which is part of the celebration of Cesar Chavez Day, was held on Saturday and Sunday.

“We work to record the stories of people

living in the U.S.,” said Jhalen Akhavan, a StoryCorps facilitator. “Usually, people come in with somebody that they know, and they record a conversation in an informal format about whatever they would like.”

The 10 interviewees were nominated and chosen through a public campaign.

They were interviewed by somebody they know.

“The way it works is two people who know each other well [participate in the interview],” said Tammy Lau, head of the Henry Madden Library special collections research center. “It’s two friends. Two family members, getting together and sitting down together, talking about their story.”

Martinez was the first nominated interviewee to participate on Saturday.

She was interviewed by her son, Richard Herron. He asked her questions about her experience growing up, raising her children and her experience with participating in social movements.

“The very first [social movement] was of course being the daughter of a farmworker,” Martinez said. “I learned how to work in the fields and became aware of some of the issues.”

However, her first time participating in a Civil Rights Movement was when she marched with King and joined the United Farm Workers.

“I joined the United Farm Workers as Cesar’s secretary, but then I winded up working in the legal department,” Martinez said. “I was inducted into the legal department where we worked on constructing the American labor relations, which brought the farmworkers under the protections of the law, the same way other workers were.”

Other pairs of interviewees and interviewers from Saturday were Robert Navarro, a public defender; Anna Trigeros-Rocha, a Fresno State student who began college 30 years after graduating high school; Michelle Montelongo and Hannah DeVous, Fresno State sign language inter-

preters; and Eloise and Armando Rivera, a brother and sister who are both deaf.

Those recorded on Sunday were Robert G. and Erika Mendoza; Maria "Mama Lola" Dolores Lopez and her son, Willie Lopez; Julian and Angelina Flores; Manuel and Olga Jiminez; and Doris Martinez Ceballos and Cathy Lozano.

If approved by the interviewees, the recordings will be made available to the public, Lau said.

“The special collections research center will get each interview transcribed so we can make those available for research and use.” Lau said. “They will go online in our digitized collections and be available through the library's online catalog and on the Web.” With the participants’ permission, the recordings will be archived by the library and available for in-house use. Additionally, the edited versions of the recordings will be broadcast on KVPR.

THE COLLEGIAN • POLITICS

MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2016

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PRIMARY

Sanders faces closed primary in New York

By Michael A. Memoli

Tribune Washington Bureau

NEW YORK – The men and women who make up one of Bernie Sanders’ best political assets in New York are doing just about everything to help him except one: vote.

The Working Families Party, a nearly two-decade-old political force in the Empire State, has sprung into action on behalf of Sanders, the independent-turned-Democratic presidential hopeful. But only registered Democrats can vote in Tuesday’s primary, shutting out the nearly 50,000 Working Families members.

Although their ranks are minuscule compared with the state’s 5.8 million Democrats, Sanders’ inability to count on support at the polls from them or others outside the Democratic Party underscores the reality that a core source of his strength throughout the nomination battle, independent liberals, can’t vote for him in dozens of states, including New York.

In this unexpectedly drawn-out Democratic primary in which delegates are awarded proportionally, a few thousand votes here or there could help Sanders snatch a handful of delegates from front-runner Hillary Clinton. Sanders’ campaign has said its current strategy to win the nomination is to come within striking distance of Clinton in pledged delegates and persuade the so-called superdelegates, party leaders and elected officials who can back the candidate of their choosing and who largely support Clinton, to switch allegiances.

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during the AFL-CIO convention in Philadelphia on Thursday, April 7, 2016.

The urgency of Sanders’ challenge was apparent Wednesday evening at a rally in downtown Manhattan where the senator from Vermont drew 27,000 supporters, the latest in a string of “yuge” rallies scheduled in the run-up to New York’s most consequential Democratic presidential primary in decades.

One of the first speakers reminded the audience that New York’s primary was closed to all but registered Democrats, prompting boos across Washington Square Park. Sanders himself raised the issue at the conclusion of his more than hourlong

speech, acknowledging a “tough race for us.”

“We have a system here in New York where independents can’t get involved in the Democratic primary, where young people who have not previously registered and want to register today can’t do it,” Sanders said from the foot of park’s signature arch, the Empire State Building gleaming in blue and green behind him. Still, Sanders predicted a “surprise for the establishment.”

“If we have a large voter turnout on Tuesday, we are going to win this thing,” he said, echoing predictions he’s made in

other states.

Johanna Weiss of Brooklyn, who arrived at the Sanders rally more than six hours before he took the stage, said she switched her registration to the Democratic Party just before the October deadline. She said she only learned about the need to do so because of her engagement with the Sanders campaign online through social media.

“I was very active with the campaign on Facebook, so I was lucky enough to have stuff coming up in my feed all the time. And I’m always reminding family members – get out there, switch if you need to switch,” she said.

“Back in the fall and the late summer, a lot of people didn’t know who Bernie Sanders was,” she said, adding that media coverage of his candidacy only became widespread after similar voter deadlines had passed.

“I still don’t necessarily consider myself a Democrat,” she added, saying she’d vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein in November if Sanders isn’t the Democratic nominee. “I still have some qualms with the Democratic establishment.”

Hurley Graham of Queens, who also attended the rally and is registered as a Libertarian, said that by the time he learned he had to switch parties to participate in the Democratic primary, it was too late.

“It certainly is a handicap for a lot of voters,” he said, blaming Democratic leaders in New York who overwhelmingly support Clinton, a state resident for the last 16 years. “Whatever they’re going to do to handicap [Sanders], they’ll do.”

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SPORTS

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NFL

Carson Wentz won’t let FCS pedigree get in NFL way

By Charean Williams

Fort Worth Star-Telegram/TNS

Carson Wentz seems unfazed that he lacks FBS experience.

“I'm a very confident player, and I know what I'm capable of,” Wentz said. “I know a lot of people had that question, so I am excited to go prove that.”

Wentz won two FCS national titles at North Dakota State and ended his career with a 20-3 record. At 6-foot-5, 237 pounds, Wentz has the size NFL teams covet. He also has the arm talent and athleticism, and Wentz even has experience under center.

“Certainly, there's a learning curve they all go through, but I don't think it's as drastic as some may [think],” San Francisco 49ers general manager Trent Baalke said.

“They play at a high level. They won five national championships in a row, and Carson was a part of four of those.

“He's a good football player. He's got the stature you're looking for. He's got the intelligence you're looking for. There are so many positive to draw from.

“Now, how ready is he going to be when he gets to the league? I think there will be a learning curve, but there is for everybody at

Nationallyranked Bulldogs continue to roll SOFTBALL from Page 8 have hours and hours of video and data on her and she is still continuing to come out here and get wins. If that doesn’t say a lot about her, I don’t know what does.”

The Bulldogs are 30-9-1 overall and have won 22 consecutive league games dating back to the 2015 season. Fresno State is one game away from tying the best conference start in MW history. The last time the ‘Dogs opened conference with more than nine-straight wins was a 24-0 stretch in 1999.

Notes •Fresno State (12-0) tops the Mountain West by a four-game margin over San Jose State (8-4) meanwhile Nevada trails in third, New Mexico is fourth and Utah State dropped one place to fifth among the nine-team league.

•In the past two weeks the Bulldogs have swept Boise State and New Mexico on the road and took all three contests from San Diego State and Utah State at home.

•When combining the 12 conference games played this year, Fresno State has outscored their opponent 117-46 which includes four run-rule victories.

that position.”

Wentz could beat out the FBS products and be the first quarterback selected in this NFL Draft. He follows four other FCS quarterbacks who became first-round draft picks – Grambling's Doug Williams in 1978; Morehead State's Phil Simms in 1979; Alcorn State's Steve McNair in 1995; and Delaware's Joe Flacco in 2008.

“I think the success of guys like Joe Flacco or Tony Romo or ... the list goes on, whether it's quarterbacks or other position players,” Wentz said. “There's a lot of talented individuals at the FCS level that can play, especially a guy like Flacco coming in really right away as a rookie and winning some ballgames.

“I think it shows that that adjustment can be made by special players, for sure.”

Wentz ended his career completing 64.1 percent of his passes for 5,115 yards, 45 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. He also ran for 1,028 yards and 13 touchdowns. He missed half of last season with a broken right wrist that required surgery.

“Sometimes you see guys that come out maybe of a I-AA or Division II [school], it takes some time to adjust or you wonder is it too big,” said Jacksonville Jaguars coach Gus Bradley, who played and coached at

North Dakota State.

“That's not the case with him, in just my conversations, so I'm happy for North Dakota State, and I'm happy for him.”

Wentz, 23, has no doubt he will win in the NFL just as he won at North Dakota State.

“Being a winner in the NFL, that will take you places for sure,” Wentz said. “I think for me coming out of North Dakota State, I think the track record speaks for itself as a winner.

“So when I think of a franchise quarterback, not only do I think of the physical ability, but I think of being a winner, winning ballgames, taking command, being a leader. All those things come to mind.” ___ Overview The top of this class is not as strong as last year when Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota were the top two picks. Winston and Mariota both ranked higher than any quarterback in this class. But the overall position is much stronger than in 2015.

Carson Wentz and Jared Goff are viewed as future NFL starters, worthy of top-10 consideration. Only seven quarterbacks were drafted last year; that number could double this year.

___ Top five •Jared Goff, California, 6-4, 215, 4.82: His record was only 14-23, but he was a three-year starter at an FBS program and has the tools to succeed in the NFL. •Carson Wentz, North Dakota State, 6-5, 237, 4.77: Some scouts like him better than Goff. He won two FCS national championships in his two years as a starter.

•Paxton Lynch, Memphis, 6-6{ , 244, 4.86: He passed for 8,865 yards, 59 touchdowns and 23 interceptions as a three-year starter and will need time to develop.

•Connor Cook, Michigan State, 6-4, 217, 4.79: He left as Michigan State's all-time winningest quarterback with a 34-5 record, but questions persist about his leadership ability.

•Christian Hackenberg, Penn State, 6-4, 223, 4.78: He had his best season as a freshman, regressing after Bill O'Brien left for the Texans. ___ Sleeper •Cardale Jones, Ohio State, 6-5, 253, 4.81: He isn't a sleeper in the traditional sense, but projected as a late-round pick, Jones has a chance to develop into more than expected.

NBA

Phil Jackson talks to Luke Walton about coaching Knicks

By Al Iannazzone Newsday/TNS

Phil Jackson has spoken to current Warriors assistant Luke Walton about the Knicks' coaching job, a league source confirmed Sunday.

The source called it a "conversation."

The New York Post first reported that they talked. Jackson has said he will speak to people he knows and "has compatibility with," and Walton fills both criteria. He played on two of Jackson's five Lakers championship teams.

Whether Walton would want to leave the NBA-champion Warriors for a rebuilding situation is unknown, but a report claimed he told Jackson he's not interested at this time.

He could be a sought-after candidate this offseason, Walton coached Golden State to a 39-4 mark this season when head coach Steve Kerr was sidelined after back surgery. The Warriors don't run the triangle offense, but use principles of it.

Jackson said he also will interview interim coach Kurt Rambis, who is believed to be a leading candidate for the job.

Rambis went 9-19 after replacing Derek Fisher and made it a point of emphasis to teach the players the triangle. Fisher tried to add wrinkles to the offense and didn't have the same relationship with Jackson as Rambis does.

Rambis is expected to stay with the Knicks in some capacity, even if it's not as head coach.

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three hits, including a double, a pair of singles, two runs and an RBI. Sophomore catcher Nick Warren also tied his career high with three hits, a double , two RBIs and two runs.

Senior Tim Borst picked up the win for the Bulldogs, throwing 2.1 innings while allowing two hits, two unearned runs and recording four strikeouts.

Up next, the Bulldogs head to Cal Poly Tuesday to take on the Mustangs in a nonconference matchup.

•The Bulldogs improved to 11-1 at home against Nevada since joining the MW in 2013 and have now swept three of the four series (2013, 2014, 2016) at Pete Beiden Field.

•The ‘Dogs have now swept four threegame series this season to match the number of three-game sweeps in 2015.

•The ‘Dogs improved to 19-3 at home and 18-2 when scoring six or more runs.

•It was only the second win of the sea-

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Fresno State junior outfielder Jake Stone records a hit during Sunday’s conference matchup between the ‘Dogs and Wolf Pack.

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•The ‘Dogs have at least seven hits in 31 of the 37 games this season and are 22-9 in those contests.

•It was Lee’s sixth career save and Borst’s 13th career win.

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The Fresno State softball team celebrates after its 2-1 win over Utah State. With the win, the Bulldogs capped the three-game weekend sweep of the Aggies.

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The No. 23-ranked Fresno State softball team pulled off its fourth-straight Mountain West series sweep with a 2-1 win against the Utah State Aggies on Sunday at Margie Wright Diamond.

After coming from behind in all three matches this weekend, the Bulldogs managed to dig themselves out of an eight-run deficit to beat the Aggies 12-11 in nine innings on Friday. They also squeezed out a 3-2 win on Saturday.

After being held hitless through two complete innings by senior ace Jill Compton, the Aggies managed to put up their one and only run in the top of the third inning.

But with two outs in the fourth inning, freshman outfielder Vanessa Hernandez and senior infielder Whitney Smith hit back-to-back doubles to tie the game 1-1.

After two scoreless innings, Smith reached base and was ran for by junior outfielder Christina Rodriguez. Senior outfielder Bria Kennedy laid down a sacrifice bunt as Rodriguez ran for third base and after a throwing error by the Aggies Rodriguez was able to score the game-winning

run in the bottom of the seventh inning.

“Our pinch runners, Christina [Rodriguez] and Brooke [Coates], are considered our special teams and they really take pride in that,” Fresno State head coach Trisha Ford said. “Their only goal is to come out every day and mess with our defense. They practice just as long and just as hard as the rest of our position players and have really embraced the role they’ve been given.

Christina has scored a lot of big runs for us throughout the year and today was obviously one of them. She’s here to cause chaos and force teams to have to make plays.”

Compton showed up big, throwing all

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The Fresno State baseball team (2413, 12-6 MW) held off Nevada for a 7-6 win Sunday afternoon at Beiden Field to complete the weekend sweep of the Wolf Pack.

“Both teams were absolutely grinding today and it was a great Sunday college baseball game,” said Fresno State

seven innings of work while allowing the Aggies just two hits and one run. Compton went 2-0 with a combined total nine strikeouts and tossed two complete games after earning all three starts in the circle for the ‘Dogs.

“Jill was in a grove, she hit a minor speed bump earlier in the series but refocused and came back out and mowed them down today,” Ford said. “We’re talking about a kid that has faced every team in our conference for four years, and every batter at least twice a day each series. Other teams

head coach Mike Batesole. “Today came down to who won more pitches and we may have won three or four more of those pitches and that was the difference in the ballgame.”

Nevada (15-18, 6-7 MW) nearly came back in the top of the ninth as it scored three runs off senior pitcher Dylan Lee to make it a one-score game before the senior put the game away for his fifth save of the season.

Down 1-0, the Bulldogs put together

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a four-run fourth inning to take the lead and never trailed again.

The Bulldogs’ pitching staff held Nevada to eight hits on the afternoon with five of those coming in the final three innings.

The Bulldogs continued their hot hitting streak, recording 13 hits to raise their weekend total to 34. Leading the way Sunday was junior outfielder Jake Stone, who tied his career high with

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Track @ Bulldog Invitational Softball vs. Colorado State, 6 p.m.

Baseball vs. San Jose State, 6:05 p.m.

Softball vs. Colorado State, 11:30 p.m.

Baseball vs. San Jose State, 1:05 p.m.