Super Bowl XXXVIII; Super Paul Attner; Super-Sizing Your Head; The Super Bowl of Advertising; Super Madden Bowl; The Same Old Super Stories and More With Charlie Pierce; Super Commentary; Super Bowl Haiku X

Does watching the Super Bowl make you part of a community? Maybe, but who cares.

The Brooklyn Nets; Utah Jazz; Let’s go “Met Office”!; Men’s College Basketball With Pat Forde; Olympic Truce; Super Bowl Sonnet; Simulated Super Bowl and More with Charlie Pierce; Four Square

The two-week break between the NFL conference champioships and the Super Bowl leaves too much time for stories about the players’ lives off the field.

Endangered Eagles; University of Minnesota-Duluth; Drug-Free High; Women’s Hoops with Mechelle Voepel; Train; Letters; NFL and More with Charlie Pierce; Double Dutch

Bill describes his least favorite part of going to his daughter’s basketball games.

Bill considers Pete Dexter’s new book, “Train.”

Pete Rose; U.S. Figure Skating Championships; Muscular Man of God; Ed Hochuli; Hustler Days; Gambling and More with Charlie Pierce; Cricket

We remember pitching great Tug McGraw, who died of brain cancer at the age of 59.

A look at R.A. Dyer’s book about the greatest pool players that ever lived.