Massive Food Stamp Scam Busted At South Florida Convenience Store

A pair of convenience store owners in south Florida have been busted for allegedly conducting a massive food stamp scam and using taxpayer money to stock their own shelves.

Police say Bassam Sale Abu Diab, 55, and his son, Matthew Bassam Abu Diab, 22, bought EBT cards at deeply discounted prices from customers and then turned around and used those credits to buy goods for their shop, 4M Food Mart in Daytona Beach, Fla., the Daytona-Beach News Journal reports.

The father-and-son team bought the cards from sellers desperate for hard cash for between 20 and 40 cents on the dollar. According to News Journal, the duo would pay $200, for example, for an EBT card loaded with $500 in credits. Then they used the cards to buy goods at Walmart and Save-A-Lot stores as a way to cheaply supply their own store.

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NATE SILVER: Florida Gulf Coast Still Has Almost No Chance To Win It All

Nate Silver updated his forecast for the NCAA Tournament, and things are still looking bleak for America's team, Florida Gulf Coast. FGCU now has a 0.019% chance of winning it all, Silver's model says. That works out to 1 in 5180 odds. Before the tournament the school's odds were 0.0001% (1 in 79322), so things have improved considerably, but not to the point that you'd call a FGCU national title "realistic." So why are the odds still so small? FGCU has a really tough path to the Final Four. The other three teams in its bracket (Kansas, Michigan, and Florida) are seeded 4th or higher. In addition, all the stats say Florida is one of the five best teams in college hoops, even though they're just a 3-seed. So it would take two monumental upsets for FGCU to get to the Final Four, and they'd still have to win two more games after that. Here are Silver's odds for FGCU to advance from here on out:

• Elite 8: 5.6%
• Final Four: 0.76%
• Title game: 0.13%
• Winning it all: 0.019%

Check out Silver full Sweet 16 forecast here >

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ESPN Went Live To A Florida Gulf Coast Pep Rally At The Worst Possible Moment

Everybody's favorite team right now is the ultimate Cinderella, Florida Gulf Coast University. So it is understandable that ESPN would show their "SportsCenter" audience a live shot of the pep rally just as coach Andy Enfield was speaking on the mic. And everything was going well until the students broke into a "F*** THE GATORS!" chant, live on "SportsCenter." It was the first experience many sports fans have had with the campus, and it was an unfortunate one.

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