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There was a time when I would take off from work for one or more of the first days of the March Madness tournament. It was completely and totally worth two vacation or … cough, cough … sick days. But as the years progressed and responsibilities at work prevented that from being an option, I tended to miss a lot of the early games.

Well, starting last year, people could watch the Madness on their computers at the office. The response for this free access was overwhelming. So this year, the folks at CBS Sportsline are offering anyone the opportunity to sign up for VIP access for free. What does this VIP access mean? Well, it may very well be the difference between getting to watch the games and clicking refresh every 10 seconds on a Gamecast.

Berger from Sports Business Radio explains:

“As a VIP member, users will have much faster access to live video from the 2007 NCAA® Division I Men’s Basketball Championship on game days. Without VIP access, fans will have to wait in a virtual line behind all VIP members. As an example of how long this virtual line can be, in 2006, MMOD had 150,000 people in the waiting room on Thursday March 16 just after the first games started. If that line was single-file and visible (assuming each person takes up two feet of space), it would have been over 50 miles long.”

I signed up. It took ten seconds. Literally. Click on this link to do the same.

Thanks to Swamp Hall of Famer wlu_lax for the heads up.