This week on Only A Game, a profile of Sue Walsh, who missed her Olympic chance in 1980 but has recently been shattering world records as a masters swimmer. Also, dancing librarians let down their hair and their horn rimmed glasses at the 2008 Drill Cart Team Competition.

Only A Game’s Gary Waleik also happens to be quite the music aficionado and recently had the chance to review the band The Baseball Project and their debut album "Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails." A band that devotes an entire album to a sport is rare, and Gary believes The Baseball Project brings a [...]

Tonight in Toronto, Major League Soccer’s all-star team, led by New England Revolution Coach Steve Nicol, will take on West Ham United of Great Britain’s Premiership. Bill Littlefield looks forward to the game, and back at what M.L.S. has accomplished.

This week on Only A Game, the attempt by double amputee Oscar Pistorius to qualify for the South African Olympic team. Also, remembering the 1987 Leonard/Hagler fight, Major League Soccer players stretch the field as well as the season, and kids push the boundaries at summer asthma camp.

Only A Game’s Michelle Seaton recently visited Camp Canonicus, a summer camp for children with Asthma. Take a look at some of her photos from the camp.

If you think of sports as offering a diversion from real world concerns, Bill Littlefield advices you to think again, especially if your investment portfolio has recently suffered.

The fight that crowned Sugar Ray Leonard the middleweight champion over Marvelous Marvin Hagler in 1987 is still being contested today, twenty one years later. Many believe that Hagler was the rightful winner of that match, that Sugar Ray stole the title from him. Steve Marantz’s new book Sorcery At Caesars: Sugar Ray’s Marvelous Fight brings readers back [...]

Can seventeen million Frenchmen be wrong? About playing petanque, I mean? This week on Only A Game, we’ll find out. Also, ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian will tell us what’s up with the Tampa Bay Rays, which is pretty much everything, and who’s the best of the worst in the National League West.

As this year’s Tour de France is well underway across the Atlantic, spectators are still no doubt wary about the ongoing doping scandal that has marred the event. Johan Bruyneel’s new book, We Might As Well Win: On the Road to Success with the Mastermind Behind a Record-Setting Eight Tour de France Victories, addresses that [...]

Only A Game’s Charlie Schroeder recently attended the San Pedro Open, where the French game of Petanque is played. Here are some of his photos from the event.