LAS VEGAS – As much as I enjoy playing Blackjack in Las Vegas there’s nothing more enjoyable in Las Vegas to me than sitting in a leather seat with a beverage (hopefully comped) next to me while I’m watching about 72 athletic events taking place simultaneously.
I haven’t been to every sports book Las Vegas has to offer but I’ve been to several. For what it’s worth, here are my favorite venues and why:
LAS VEGAS – Despite yesterday’s brutal showing in the sports book Zoneblitz.com was back at the Golden Nugget this morning plopping down more cash on the opening weekend of professional gridiron action.
We put some action down on several individual games and then we each took a couple parlays as well. Parlay cards are generally seen by professional gamblers as sucker bets due to how they make bit players like us light up because of the progressively large payouts – people think they are smarter than they are and when they put down a few bucks hoping for the big immediate payoff they usually get themselves beat.
So we did it anyway.
Here are the games we picked together:
On the eve of the beginning of the 2008 football season for most of the league Drew Rosenhaus has taken the opportunity to reiterate that his client, Anquan Boldin would like his employer, the Arizona Cardinals, to trade him.
Despite having three years left on his current deal he wants a new one that would put him among the highest-paid receivers in the league.
Rosenhaus emphasizes that he hopes Boldin is traded by the Oct. 14 trade deadline and adds that Boldin won’t re-sign with the Cardinals. “Essentially that bridge has been blown up,” Rosenhaus told the Arizona Republic. “He’s looking to play as hard as he can for the club, for his teammates, but the sooner he is traded, the better.”
That’s a great message for his teammates to hear as they prepare for San Francisco. “Hey guys, I’ll be out on the field with you, but it’ll be grudgingly. I really don’t want anything to do with this team anymore.”
LAS VEGAS – All of the fantasy league drafts and auctions I participate in each year culminate in the Power League auction. It’s the highest stakes league I play in and it’s the most competitive with nine players that are all skilled in football and trash talk.
This year the Power League gathered in Las Vegas for the auction at 10 p.m. Las Vegas time in an abandoned hallway/lobby area in the Flamingo hotel.
The participants had been in Vegas for varying amounts of time and many were clearly on the tired side as the night got underway. But everyone was also clearly stoked for our annual football get together and my brother did yeoman’s work in his debut as a fantasy auctioneer.
LAS VEGAS – Well, the Blackjack tables haven’t really gotten any kinder yet despite heroic – or perhaps desperate – efforts that lasted until 3:30 a.m. Las Vegas time.
Despite the late night my brother and I did manage to hit the Golden Nugget’s Sports Book before kickoff of the early games this afternoon in an effort to get some money on something besides 21.
We ended up with a collection of picks that included betting against our alma mater and a couple that, frankly, didn’t look all that great as halftime approached. Our selections were as follows:
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Thanks Paul ... I will nominate more anyway. Maybe someone I like can break through again, similar to Chuck Howley.
You can submit as many as you like but Hall still reserves right to add or reject nominees (based on…
Help me out guys ... getting older fogs my memory more but I am about to do another write-in ballot…
Paul I guess but did you see my other comment
There is a tight timeline of only a few weeks to schedule these, perhaps Joe and Jerry had previous commitments