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Posted by Karen at 03/13/10 · 7:00 AM

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.

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Posted by Bill at 03/12/10 · 9:58 PM

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.

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Posted by Gary at 03/12/10 · 9:15 PM

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.

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Posted by Bill at 03/11/10 · 6:44 PM

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.

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Posted by Bill at 03/10/10 · 4:32 PM

Every week Bill chooses two favorites from the never-ending flow of ridiculous sports stories. Today he looks at the problems that arise when a drunken rugby player stumbles upon a golf cart. And fresh off the excitement of Olympic curling in Vancouver, Bill shares the details of the new “sport” of “human curling.”

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Posted by Tyler at 03/06/10 · 7:00 AM
From left, New Jersey Devils' Travis Zajac, Ilya Kovalchuk, Zach Parise and Dainius Zubrus celebrate Zajac's game-tying goal against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010.

This week on Only A Game, we endeavor to answer a most vexing question regarding the sexes: Why aren’t there more sports that pit women against men? Also, the New Jersey Devils rise from hockey purgatory, plus SI’s Peter King on the NFL, and a story of a sports hero who disappeared.

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Posted by Bill at 03/04/10 · 9:09 PM

In his new book, The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy And Promoted The American Way Abroad, Robert Elias explains how America’s pastime has proven to be more than just a game. With spring training underway, Bill shares his thoughts on the book.

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Posted by Tyler at 03/04/10 · 7:35 PM

Only A Game Senior Producer Gary Waleik offers his weekly thoughts on the music we use for the show.

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