This week on Only A Game, can Husker hoopsters of the female variety help Nebraskans forget about their relatively unsuccessful football team? Also, some good spring training talk with Tim Kurkjian, and Vermonters say goodbye to winter with wickets and mallets.

In his new book, Straight Down the Middle: Shivas Irons, Bagger Vance, and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Golf Swing, Josh Karp documents his long and winding quest to improve his golf game. Bill shares his thoughts on the book.

This week brought the news that Tiger Woods will return to the pro golf tour next month at the Masters Tournament in Augusta. Bill Littlefield is among those curious about how a man who’s become notorious for all the wrong reasons will fare when he returns to the golf course.

Two more strange news items that have some sort of connection (even a very small one) to sports. This week, Bill shares the stories of a sumo wrestler who needed some cash fast and a national anthem controversy for our neighbors to the north.

Sixty-four teams are good, so 128 must be better! This week on Only A Game, should the March Madness field be increased to include just about everybody? Also, the round-the-world saga of Canadian hero and Paralympian Rick Hansen.

Everybody knows that Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball. Bill Littlefield reviews a book that covers interactions between black and white baseball players before 1947.

Every week “Only A Game” brings you a variety of sports-related music. (Ok, sometimes “sports-related” is an exaggeration.) And every week, Senior Producer Gary Waleik writes about what we play and why he chose it.

College basketball bubble teams find out their fate on Sunday and Monday when the brackets are announced for the NCAA tournament. But, Only A Game’s Bill Littlefield’s favorite basketball moment has already come and gone.