No. 4 Gonzaga faces San Diego State in a men’s college basketball game at Viejas Arena in San Diego, California, on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024 (11/18/24).

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Here’s what you need to know:

What: College basketball

Who: Gonzaga vs. San Diego State

When: Monday, Nov. 18, 2024

Where: Viejas Arena

Time: 10 p.m.

TV: CBS Sports Network

Live stream: DirecTV Stream and FuboTV

AP Story:

Gonzaga Bulldogs (3-0) at San Diego State Aztecs (2-0)

San Diego; Monday, 10 p.m. EST

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bulldogs -11.5; over/under is 151

BOTTOM LINE: No. 4 Gonzaga plays San Diego State after Khalif Battle scored 21 points in Gonzaga’s 113-54 victory over the UMass-Lowell River Hawks.

San Diego State finished 26-11 overall last season while going 14-1 at home. The Aztecs averaged 74.1 points per game last season, 15.5 from the free-throw line and 21 from deep.

Gonzaga finished 8-2 on the road and 27-8 overall last season. The Bulldogs averaged 84.5 points per game last season, 42.3 in the paint, 14.6 off of turnovers and 13.9 on fast breaks.

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Cayden Steele may be reached at CSteele@njadvancemedia.com

A new restaurant and seafood market operated and stocked by local fishermen has docked just steps from the sand in Pacific Beach. Nico’s Fish Market is the permanent location of a roving outfit that’s been popping up around town since 2022, including regular weekend residencies at Oceanside’s South O Brewing and the Shanty in Cardiff.

The Emerald Street space is the fruition of a dream that founder Nico Gibbons has held since he was a teenager. At 18, the San Diego native started as a bus boy at El Pescador Fish Market, working at the 50-year-old La Jolla institution even while attending college at UCLA and eventually becoming a fishmonger. Through family connections, Gibbons spent several months living in Mexico City, training in the kitchen with chef Federico Rigoletti (Contramar) while spending nights cutting fish in the city’s main seafood market. After returning to San Diego, he learned the wholesale side of the business at Hawaiian Fresh Seafood, where he graded tuna for the poke experts.

Photos of the local fishermen who fuel the market and restaurant, including Gibbons himself, are displayed next to the retail seafood counter, where sashimi plates and containers of poke sit on ice next to filets of fresh fish, from bluefin tuna to local halibut and swordfish.

Gibbons, who lives in Pacific Beach, worked with the owner of a neighborhood taco shop he used to frequent to take over its lease with help from Dino De Salvio of Next Wave Commercial.

The menu includes poke bowls plus tacos, burritos, sandwiches, and plates featuring the day’s fresh catch always cut to order. Gibbons tells Eater that they’ll also be running specials featuring seasonal local seafood and are working to secure a beer and wine license.

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The Los Angeles Chargers can finally breathe.

After blowing a 27-6 lead with 21 unanswered points, the Chargers eventually staved off the Cincinnati Bengals with a key 34-27 win on Week 11 of Sunday Night Football.

Los Angeles dominated the first half en route to a 24-6 cushion at halftime, which extended to 27-6 in the early minutes of the third quarter.

But Cincinnati woke up from that point on and scored 21 unanswered to stun the SoFi Stadium crowd. However, Bengals kicker Evan McPherson blew two opportunities to give Cincinnati the lead, eventually resulting in J.K. Dobbins’ game-winning run. Justin Herbert also threw multiple dimes to move the chains.

The result moved Los Angeles to 7-3 to maintain its spot near the top of the tight AFC while Cincinnati disappointingly fell to 4-7, where there is almost no more room for error the rest of the way.

Let’s analyze the game further with three takeaways:

Kickers are important

Of course it’s impossible to tell how the game would’ve ended if McPherson made his field goals late on, but it further amplified the importance of kickers.

McPherson’s two late misses failed to give Cincinnati the lead to capitalize on the hard work the offense and defense did to knot the game at 27 all. He did so on back-to-back drives too, missing from 48 and 51 yards out.

He made two first-half field goals, with a long of 27. However, he’ll obviously be known for his misses that may have finally derailed Cincinnati’s underwhelming season.

Chargers avoid embarassment

Los Angeles may have had flashbacks to the 2023 playoffs (2022 season) when it traveled to face the Jacksonville Jaguars in the playoffs.

The Chargers in that game led 27-0 and looked well on their way to advance to the divisional round under Brandon Staley, but infamously allowed a comeback that saw Jacksonville win 31-30.

Los Angeles didn’t return to the playoffs last season with Staley still at the helm, but Jim Harbaugh has helped lead a resurgence in just his first season with the franchise. He didn’t allow a repeat of that performance, though they did need some luck this time.

Are the Chargers contenders?

There’s still plenty of football to be played, but the Chargers are in a very propitious spot after 10 games in the books. At 7-3, they are currently in the No. 5 seed if the playoffs began today, which would set up a wild-card matchup against the Houston Texans.

Los Angeles still has its flaws — defensive injury inconsistencies and a lack of star weapons for Herbert — but it might just be decent enough to be a sleeper team in the conference. The 7-4 Baltimore Ravens and 6-5 Denver Broncos are the two teams behind them, with every other AFC team currently below .500.

Michael Ozanian, Senior Sports Reporter for CNBC, delves into the factors that make the Los Angeles Rams significantly more valuable than their cross-town rivals, the Los Angeles Chargers.