Well, it looks as though I might have overshot the 2010 Mastodon Weekend by about, oh, 675 miles or something. While others degen it up in G-ville, I am spending the weekend in West Palm Beach with Vera Valmore, attending with her a dressage competition. Will be, I imagine, a marginally less intense time these next couple of days here in southern Florida, although I have to say I’m very glad to be able to get away with Vera like this

Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman has refused an invitation to meet with Presiden Barak Obama when he arrives to Sin City to campaign for Nevada Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Reid. Goodman was invited by the White House to meet the president on his arrival to Las Vegas on Thursday night and join him at a town hall event scheduled for Friday. Goodman spokesman Jace Radke said the mayor would consider the invitation if Obama promised to apologize for comments made last week suggesting that people saving money for college shouldn’t spend in it partying in Las Vegas

Visitors to the Las Vegas Natural History Museum can now take a trip through time to King Tut’s Tomb, see actual mummies and view artifact recreations of the most-recognizable Egyptian pieces in the world. The “Treasures of Egypt” exhibit is now open to the public at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum.

Let me just get this out of the way, if the Saints win the Super Bowl, then the celebration that’ll come after will be bigger than Mardi Gras. And since Super Bowl XLIV will be their first ever trip to the Super Bowl for the New Orleans Saints, anything they celebrate from this point forward will be nothing compared to the way this city will celebrate if the Saints win the big game. In case you didn’t get that, the New Orleans Saints are going to the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history.

Bettors take a trip inside the Octagon before they wet their pants watching the Super Bowl this Sunday. And in case you didn’t get that, businessman extraordinaire and UFC President Dana White managed to squeeze his little UFC pay per view event right before Super Bowl XLIV .