Where happiness lives

 We are merely an hour or so away from arguably the greatest four day stretch in the sporting calender.  The opening round of the NCAA’s is really unmatched for rapid fire drama and excitement.  Most of us will be slightly distracted at work as we are trying to fool the work filters into allowing live feeds from games or constantly refreshing the Scoreboard page on ESPN.  Some of the lucky few either took off work, feigned illness, or think full time employment is for suckers and so they’ll be parked on their couch or bellied up to the closest bar to watch their brackets fall apart (Stanford, don’t you even think about laying an egg!).  Even others will be on site, dipping their toes directly into the madness.  But the great ones…the truly wise among us, will spend the extended weekend in the arms of the warm embrace that is legal sports wagering, most notably those who will be huddled in the sportsbooks littered across Las Vegas. 

Seriously, can you think of a better place to be than in the Bellagio Sportsbook (our personal favorite) during all of this?  Sure some of you might say you’d rather be at the games themselves, but honestly, think about this for a second, would you rather be on hand to see Mount Saint Mary’s get steamrolled while eating stale nachos and washing it down with $8 beer or sitting in a comfy leather chair rooting for the over in the same game as aspiring actress/dancer Misty, who is just working here to pay off that pesky community college tuition, brings you a gin and tonic?  Exactly.

While we’ve never been to Vegas during March Madness, we did spend a spring break during our college years in the Bahamas, at a resort with, whadoyaknow, a sportsbook and casino.  We paid for the entire trip by the first day (thank you Weber State!) and didn’t see the beach the entire time we were there, which we believe is both pathetic and exemplary. 

If you want to know what the scene is like in Vegas right about now,  check out The Sporting Blog’s Spencer Hall’s reports from Sin City.