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 tournament. Alternating between
humorous accounts of gamblers' exploits and cultural theories on
sports in society, Zaremba provides an engaging analysis of the
sporting ritual that such gambling has become. With forays into the
history of the tournament, the background of sports betting, and a
little betting of his own, Zaremba raises the question of whether
this subculture of March Madness is a blessing or a curse--and
what, finally, it all means.
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