Vegas is coming! Worlds are colliding!

The recruiting trail starts in earnest this coming weekend with the Las Vegas Invitational and the President's Day Classic in Omaha.There have already been mandatories, power leagues, and central zones, but this weekend's two tournaments are the largest yet of the club season.

Omaha, as most college coaches discovered in December, isn't all that bad. It even has gambling "across the river" if you're worried about how to lose that $500 that's burning a hole in your pocket. But, it's still not Vegas, where you can lose that $500 in more sumptuous surroundings.

Vegas is a little different this time around, however. And, no, we're not talking about how they finally decided to have Open and Club divisions, so we don't have to watch Laguna Beach destroy Staten Island VBC's 18-5s. We're talking about the fact that the NBA All-Star Game is being played in Vegas this weekend, too. You know what that means? Worlds are colliding. The club and college volleyball worlds are running headlong into the NBA, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

Will Vision's Amanda Gil walk past Steve Nash and say "Wassup, shortness"? Will Bond Shymansky lose $500 because Stephon Marbury takes his ace at the BlackJack table? And how many women of the volleyball community are going to get hit on by random NBA posse members? "Yo, I'm rollin' with Smush Parker. You wanna party with us at the Hard Rock?"

It might be more entertaining to just sit back and watch the action--in various hotel lobbies--than do anything else.