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much all vanished.
“I think there is a realization on the part of the
league commissioners and owners that legalized
sports betting is going to expand beyond the
borders of Nevada,” Musburger said. “It’s coming
like a runaway freight train and you might as well
embrace it in some way and be a part of it. I don’t
think it harms the industry one bit to talk about
spreads during the broadcast. Dallas Cowboys
owner Jerry Jones has been coming to Las Vegas
for years, and he knows exactly what is going on
here and the positives of Las Vegas.”
In a recent Las Vegas Sun article detailing Las
Vegas’ efforts to land the NCAA Final Four
or other earlier rounds of March Madness,
financial analyst Jeremy Aguero discussed the
new Las Vegas event frontier. The fact that
several conferences already host post-season
tournaments here makes the case for college
basketball’s premier event to be played in the city
that glitters even more of a no-brainer.
“We’ve had a lot of success with conference
championships here in Las Vegas,” said Aguero,
principal at Applied Analysis and one of the
leaders of the Las Vegas Stadium project. “Those
types of things have laid the foundation. Look,
we have 147,000 hotel rooms and the second-
busiest destination origination airport in the
country. This community was designed to host
these types of events.”
Christenson and his Las Vegas Events team LAS VEGAS BOWL
and Steve Hill and his team at the Las Vegas
Convention and Visitors Authority are working Sam Boyd Stadium is home to the Las Vegas Bowl, annually one of the best games of the
in front and behind the scenes on a nearly daily December holiday post-season with teams representing the Pac 12 and Mountain West.
basis to attract these mega-events. PHOTO COURTESY OF LAS VEGAS BOWL

ROCK'N'ROLL MARATHON

The Humana Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon is run
down the heart of the Las Vegas Strip and features
concerts, expos, music a half-marathon and much more
action surrounding the race, to be held Nov 16-17.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ROCK'N'ROLL MARATHON

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