Item #42 on the “50 sporting things you must do before you die” listing recommends taking in the NCAA’s March madness basketball tournament. If attending the event live is out of the question this year, you might instead be interested in the recently published book from the University of Nebraska Press entitled “The Madness of March: Bonding and Betting with the Boys in Las Vegas” by Alan Jay Zaremba.
“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.”
