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The Madness of March: Bonding and Betting with the Boys in Las Vegas
Alan Jay Zaremba
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Paperback. Offers an account of the Las Vegas gambling scene that surrounded the first weekend of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. This book raises the question of whether this subculture of March Madness is a blessing or a curse - and what, finally, it all means. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
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 weekend of the ... Read more
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 weekend of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803213838
SKU
V9780803213838
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Ref
99-1
About Alan Jay Zaremba
Alan Jay Zaremba received his BA from the University of Albany and PhD from the University of Buffalo. He is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Graduate Curricula and Research in the College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Zaremba was the keynote speaker at the Eighth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change ... Read more
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