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.

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.

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.

This week on Only A Game, a member of the 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team puts the Miracle Theory on ice. Also, a Vancouver wrap up, and the story of the Boston sports league that helps adolescents overcome trauma, abuse and neglect.

This week on Only A Game, the latest sliding, skiing, sledding, sweeping, salchow, and sit-spinning news from Vancouver. Also, we’ll check into the New York hotel that goes to the dogs each year during the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

This week on Only A Game, a preview of the 21st Olympic Winter Games, and a radio tour of Vancouver. Also, Burundi’s president takes to the soccer pitch to help repair a fractured nation, and the life and circus catches of the great Willie Mays.

The buildup, the dip
And the chips are nothing to…
Super Bowl Haiku

This week on Only A Game, our 16th Annual installment of gridiron, er, poetry. Also, a big game preview, and bringing together bikes and beer in Boston.

The Milwaukee Bucks have found a possible solution to their attendance woes…have a star player purchase season tickets for enthusiastic fans! This week on Only A Game, Andrew Bogut’s attempt to fill the home arena. Also, the best tales of the Stanley Cup, and Bill talks with Kelly Kulick, the first woman to win a PBA Tour title.

This week on Only A Game, bounce the ball once, twice, breath, set and…shoot the 105,400 something free throw for charity. We’ll meet a guy who’s hoisting up 1,000,000. Also, Vikings? Saints? Jets?

This week on Only A Game, a small golf course in Aceh, Indonesia reopens five years after the 2004 tsunami. Also, Mark McGwire gets all teary-eyed remembering that really great summer of ’98, and Charlie Pierce dissects the week’s sports news.