Morning Whip, 3/28/05

Haven’t heard of Sungard? That’s OK, most people haven’t. They provide computer services, primarily to financial companies. They’re going private, in what is reported to be the second largest deal of its kind[*1] . The company had planned to spin off their disaster recovery business[*2] but that transaction is apparently on the rocks.

Somehow, a bag with a gun inside got through the security checkpoint at the Cincinatti airport[*3] .
The passenger and the bag were never found.. . . Confident the concourses were free of weapons, TSA officials reopened the concourses at 9:05 a.m. All passengers had to be rescreened before entering . . .
WHAT!?!?!?!

Finally this morning, Snookums and I saw a couple of pretty good women’s basketball games last night. Vanderbilt lost to Michigan State[*4] , and Stanford beat Connecticut[*5] . We found ourselves in the Stanford section, about six rows behind John Elway whose daughter plays (or, more accurately, sits on the bench) for Stanford.
Attendance was disappointing, as Mechelle Voepel of the K.C. Star[*6] notes.