Cool, if you are into following College B-ball (and have a chumby).

Here is the release:

Chumby Industries and CBS Team Up to Offer ‘College Hoops’ Widget for College Basketball Tournament

Now chumby users can wake up to the latest real-time scores, game previews, highlights, headlines, articles, and more provided by CBS

San Diego, CA - March 19, 2008 - Chumby Industries officially released today a CBS ‘College Hoops’ widget for the College Basketball Tournament March 16 - April 7, 2008.

Who: CBS is providing the ChumbyT Network, a dynamic and rapidly expanding open pipeline of user-created and sponsor-supported commercial widget applications, with its ‘College Hoops’ widget that will showcase game previews, highlights, headlines, articles and real-time scores for chumby device owners.

What: The chumby is a compact wi-fi enabled device that lets people receive a constant personalized broadcast of their favorite parts of the Web. College basketball fans will now be able to access information about their favorite teams and get the latest videos, scores and tournament news delivered straight to their chumbys.

When: The CBS ‘College Hoops’ widget will be updated in real time with the latest information as games are being played. Wake up to the chumby and know your team’s results before you even get out of bed!

How: Access the CBS ‘College Hoops’ widget as well as hundreds of other widgets that offer the latest news, weather and entertainment, as well as the ability to share photos, widgets and e-cards with family and friends by purchasing the chumby, available at www.chumby.com for $179.95 including shipping.

About Chumby Industries:

Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Chumby Industries makes, sells, and licenses the chumbyT, a compact device that connects via a wireless Internet connection and gives people a fun, hassle-free way to enjoy what they want most out of the Internet, always on and simply at a glance. Chumby Industries also runs the ChumbyT Network, a rapidly expanding open pipeline of user created and commercial widget applications from high-profile media partners such as CBS, MTV Networks, MySpace, The Weather Channel Interactive, AOL’s SHOUTcast and Scripps Networks among many more. Offering the latest news, weather and entertainment as well as the ability to share photos, widgets, e-cards and more with family and friends, Chumby Industries provides an open platform, enabling the chumby to be constantly updated by any user, developer, media company or content creator to enhance and improve the chumby experience.

CBS also has a basketball headlines widget.

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