Overview
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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Author: Alan Jay Zaremba
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Imprint: Bison Books
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.295kg
ISBN: 9780803213838
ISBN 10: 0803213832
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 01 March 2009
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
Prologue Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Thursday, March 15, 2007 Friday, March 16, 2007 Saturday, March 17, 2007 Sunday, March 18, 2007 Epilogue Acknowledgments Glossary
Reviews
Professor Alan Zaremba chronicles the scene in Las Vegas during the opening weekend of the 2007 NCAA Tournament. . . . The result is a fascinating, often humorous, look into the lives of the (mostly) men who converge on the desert every March with their locks and sure thing picks. . . . One of the best books I''ve read this year. -Jeff Fox, hoopsmanifesto.blogspot.com -- Jeff Fox hoopsmanifesto.blogspot.com
Author Information
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 in Organisations. Also by Alan Jay Zaremba: • Mass Communication and International Politics • Management in a New Key: Communication in the Modern Organization • Organizational Communication: Foundations for Business and Collaboration • Speaking Professionally: A Concise Guide
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