Saturday, April 1, 2006

Spotlight
NCAA Basketball's Final Four tips off today in Indianapolis as the UCLA Bruins meet the LSU Tigers and the George Mason University Patriots meet the University of Florida Gators in the championship's semifinals. The games will be held in the RCA Dome today and on April 3. Women's Final Four Semifinals will be held tomorrow, with the championship game on April 4, both at Boston's TD Banknorth Garden.

Quote
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." – Michael Jordan, who as a freshman at the University of N. Carolina, made the shot that won the 1982 NCAA tournament final over Georgetown

Word of the day
seed: in sports, to rank contestants so that more skilled competitors meet in a later round of games; the NCAA's top seeded teams play in the Final Four. (© )

Holiday
April Fool's Day

Today's News

• gasoline: high prices, possible shortages foreseen this summer due to ethanol shortage (story)
• cellphone: kosher version may come to the US (story)
• Superman Returns: in a big way – on IMAX and partly in 3D (story)

Today's History

• Royal Air Force: branch of the British Armed Forces was formed (1918)
• Apple Computer: was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (1976)
• Gmail: Google's Internet-based email service was launched (2004)

Today's Birthdays

• Otto von Bismarck: German statesman (1815-1898)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff: Russian romantic composer (1873-1943)
• Samuel Alito: latest justice to be appointed to the US Supreme Court (56)