March Madness Tweets From Me: Plus Packer, Coach Knight at Wynn Las Vegas

March 12, 2009

LAS VEGAS, NV – Come join me and a crazy cast of characters at the Wynn Las Vegas for the first four days of March Madness. Even Bobby Knight and Billy Packer will be with us.

Knight and Packer will be broadcasting from the sports book. I’ve been assured they will be asking for the opinions of my brainy posse who I will introduce a little later in this post. I’ve also been assured that all the chairs in the Wynn Sports Book are either bolted to the floor or too big to throw.

Here’s how to join us.

First, if you can’t make it to Las Vegas just follow me online or on your cell phone with Twitter. I will be tweeting during the first four days of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

To receive my updates, you need to sign-up at Twitter. It’s free. Once you have your account, find my Twitter site and then sign-up as one of my followers. Then keep watching the computer or your cell phone starting March 19.

The second way is to join us at the Wynn Sports Book. For more information, go to LocalsLoveVegas and click on Johnny Avello, Wynn Sports Book on March Madness and see the interview with Johnny Avello.

As a last minute check, I just found out all the rooms at the Wynn Las Vegas are booked for the weekend. You can still join us at the Wynn Sports Book, though.

If you do, you’ll meet Ron Futrell, my long-time friend and broadcast sidekick, who also runs the site LocalsLoveVegas.com.

LocalsLoveVegas will also carry video of our antics during the games. And Ron will also be tweeting. Here’s his Twitter site.

Take a look at this interview Ron and I did at LocalsLoveVegas. Click on “March Madness Hits Wynn Sports Book”.

In addition, I will have my usual posse on hand. This is the betting combine that has other sports bettors trembling.

Dave “The Heat” Williams is flying in from ACC country to give us the low-down from Tobacco Road. (He’s my father-in-law: judge him on his hoop choices and not on the advice he gave his only daughter.)

Art “Doctor Data”, the PhD from Harvard, who has an uncanny ability to call a game when it’s a laugher, is also an expert on the Big Ten and Southeast Conference. (After all, his daughter graduated from Michigan and his son from Vandy.)

And last but not least, Jerry “Twinkle Toes” Ehrens, a prodigy out of Princeton, knows The Big East and The Ivy League for the beasts they are.

The four of us pool our bets to get the optimum financial and bragging right benefits. (Tax about toxic assets.  Really, we do it so there’s no acrimony at the table.)

OK, I’ll level with you. Whatever bets you hear we make, go the other way.

This is a family ritual for me. I’ve done this since 1991 when I moved to Las Vegas. My father-in-law Dave has joined me every year.

I’m looking forward to having you there either in person or by Twitter.

Written by John Daly Sports · Filed Under Basketball/College 

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