Thursday, March 19, 2009

NCAA March Madness

This year's college basketball tournament is one hot ticket (despite allegations of selection bias against the mid-majors). Tickets will be hard to come by for these matches, but that won't stop people from cheering their favourite teams on!

For complete scores, recaps and video, check out www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/scoreboard or score tickets on EBay and Google. Good hunting!

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Heather Schmid - enemy of Islam? Seriously?

Heather Schmid, classical recording artist, TV host and philanthropist seems to have attracted the ire of Al Qaeda.

The musician (whose albums can be found everywhere from cdbaby to mp3.com) began receiving threats due to her charitable work in Pakistan, which earned the admiration of its then President, Pervez Musharraf.

According to Hollie McKay at foxnews.com “The FBI has deemed Schmid’s case as a credible threat, and has filed a report, advised her to track all calls and odd occurrences, to change her Web server, and to hire protection while out in certain public places.”


The full Fox News story can be found at www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509649,00.html