This week on Only A Game, will the Duke Blue Devils finally earn respectability? Hint: we’re not talking about their basketball teams. Also, remembering Sheboygan’s one and only NBA season 50 years ago, and ESPN columnist Bill Simmons joins me to geek out on basketball stats. And oh yeah, New York celebrates the Yankees’ 27th World Series title.

Love the music you heard on this week’s show? Hate it? Here’s why you heard what you heard.

The NFL’s head-honchos would have you believe that anything can happen on any given Sunday. But many fans of teams in the bottom-half of the league have already left their teams for dead. Bill asks, “Where’s the parity we hear so much about?”

Can you argue for days about the relative virtues of Bill Walton and Dave Cowens? Are you more interested in reforming the Basketball Hall of Fame than the country’s healthcare system? Then Bill Simmons’ The Book of Basketball might just be your bible.

This week on Only A Game, World Series trophy making with the fiery silversmiths of Tiffany and Company, which also produces championship trophies for the NFL and the NBA. Also, knives and mollusks fly at a Cape Cod oyster shucking competition.

Love eating oysters on the half shell? The science, and sport, of oyster shucking was on display at Cape Cod’s Wellfleet Oyster Festival, and Only A Game’s Karen Given was there.

You’ve probably heard of Tiffany & Co., one of the most famous jewelry companies in the world. What you probably didn’t know is that Tiffany makes many of the sporting world’s most famous trophies. Only A Game’s Doug Tribou saw how many of those trophies are made.

Loved the music you heard on this week’s show? Need to hear more? Check out why Only A Game’s Senior Producer Gary Waleik chose the music for this week’s show.