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It’s here. For basketball fans, this is like Christmas morning. The brackets were set Sunday night. You’ll be printing brackets and you’ll soon be destroying the same bracket.
Office pools will be set up today and you’re hoping to collect from that dollar bet you placed with co-workers and friends. The betting counter at Sandy’s Gaming will be busy. Sandy’s is a good place to watch a game with your buds and besties.
Every year, some business publications will report how much time we spent preparing brackets and flowing around the work place discussing brackets and the usual complaints about early defeats of your favorite team — which, around here, is usually UK.
The odds of you getting everything in your bracket exactly right are longer than winning this week’s Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots in the same week. Still, we try. For basketball fans, this is it.
If college basketball isn’t your thing, Kentucky’s popular high school Sweet Sixteen tips off in Lexington on March 26. This year’s 16th Region winner is the Ashland Tomcats — for the seventh straight season. Driving west on I-64, you’ll see lots of Ashlanders on the road soon enough. Nearly every parent and many grandparents will be watching their kiddos along with cheerleaders and players hoping to make it to the finals.
It’s not until late March this year because Rupp Arena is hosting NCAA Tournament games.
Various studies show Americans spend 13 hours watching games, three hours creating brackets, and five hours talking about it with friends and colleagues. This doesn’t include the hours spent online researching and betting on games. Some 38 states now have legalized sports betting.
Americans will spend hundreds of millions dollars wagering on which team will win. In Las Vegas, this week will be the second-highest sports betting week only behind the Super Bowl.
If you’re not a big basketball fan, we’re less than two weeks from Cincinnati Reds opening day — Thursday, March 27.
Enjoy the rest of this year’s March Madness season! We’ll have it covered. Americans deserve a brief distraction from stressful congressional happenings and talk of government shutdowns.
Continue reading...
Office pools will be set up today and you’re hoping to collect from that dollar bet you placed with co-workers and friends. The betting counter at Sandy’s Gaming will be busy. Sandy’s is a good place to watch a game with your buds and besties.
Every year, some business publications will report how much time we spent preparing brackets and flowing around the work place discussing brackets and the usual complaints about early defeats of your favorite team — which, around here, is usually UK.
The odds of you getting everything in your bracket exactly right are longer than winning this week’s Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots in the same week. Still, we try. For basketball fans, this is it.
If college basketball isn’t your thing, Kentucky’s popular high school Sweet Sixteen tips off in Lexington on March 26. This year’s 16th Region winner is the Ashland Tomcats — for the seventh straight season. Driving west on I-64, you’ll see lots of Ashlanders on the road soon enough. Nearly every parent and many grandparents will be watching their kiddos along with cheerleaders and players hoping to make it to the finals.
It’s not until late March this year because Rupp Arena is hosting NCAA Tournament games.
Various studies show Americans spend 13 hours watching games, three hours creating brackets, and five hours talking about it with friends and colleagues. This doesn’t include the hours spent online researching and betting on games. Some 38 states now have legalized sports betting.
Americans will spend hundreds of millions dollars wagering on which team will win. In Las Vegas, this week will be the second-highest sports betting week only behind the Super Bowl.
If you’re not a big basketball fan, we’re less than two weeks from Cincinnati Reds opening day — Thursday, March 27.
Enjoy the rest of this year’s March Madness season! We’ll have it covered. Americans deserve a brief distraction from stressful congressional happenings and talk of government shutdowns.
Continue reading...
