The Detroit Shock, three times the WNBA Champs, have lost a lot this summer. This week on “Only A Game,” their current story. We’ll also ask “Whither golf in these hard times? Will it whither?” Whether or not it does, we’ll witness bad bowling at the Big Lebowski Fest.

Only A Game’s Charlie Schroeder was in California to cover the Big Lebowski Fest, where the participants go all out all the time.

Predicting that pitcher Tim Wakefield would make his first All-Star game in 2009, a full 21 years after being drafted as an infielder, would be perhaps the only thing harder than predicting where his fluttering knuckleball will end up. Bill reflects on the career of the longest tenured Red Sox player in his commentary.

People forget Michelle Wie is only 19-years-old. The golfer has endured a father’s greed, numerous ailments, and the scorn of her peers throughout her career. Author Eric Adelson chronicles her rise and fall in “The Sure Thing: The Making and Unmaking of Golf Phenom Michelle Wie,” a book that leaves open the possibility for a happier and more successful future chapter in Wie’s still young life.

This week on “Only A Game,” an Independence Day conversation about an American named Armstrong, bicycling in France. We’ll update the tennis from Jolly England, and we’ll have a fishing story about a Greek. But he’s fishing in New York, and he’s pretty independent.