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Author Zaremba, Alan Jay.

Title The madness of March : bonding and betting with the boys in Las Vegas / Alan Jay Zaremba
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages)
Contents Tuesday night, March 13, 2007 -- Wednesday, March 14, 2007 -- Thursday, March 15, 2007 -- Friday, March 16, 2007 -- Saturday, March 17, 2007 -- Sunday, March 18, 2007
Summary Every spring, the first four days of the NCAA men's basketball tournament attracts a horde of basketball bettors to Las Vegas. From the tip-off of the tournament's first game on Thursday morning to the final whistle on Sunday, throngs of bettors--overwhelmingly male--sit in smoky casinos obsessively watching as many as forty-eight college basketball games. This book immerses readers in that action. In The Madness of March: Bonding and Betting with the Boys in Las Vegas, Alan Jay Zaremba travels to The Strip and gives us a front-row view of the betting culture that surrounds the frenzied first we
Notes "A Bison original"--Page 4 of cover
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Subject Basketball -- Betting -- Nevada -- Las Vegas
College sports -- Corrupt practices -- Nevada -- Las Vegas
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Basketball.
Basketball -- Betting
College sports -- Corrupt practices
Nevada -- Las Vegas
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780803222984
080322298X