Pat Forde - Pat Forde has no discernible talents but still talked his way into semi-regular appearances with Bill Littlefield. He is a national columnist with ESPN.com and prior to that spent 17 years working for The (Louisville) Courier-Journal. He still lives in Louisville with his wife and three children, roots avidly for the Denver Broncos and believes that no one will ever write a Tiger Woods story as good as Charlie Pierce’s "The Man. Amen."

Greg Echlin - Greg Echlin is a free lance sports journalist based in Kansas City. He is also a regular contributor to Kansas Public Radio and KCUR, the Only A Game affiliate in Kansas City. Though he grew up in Chicago, he has grown attached to his adopted hometown of Kansas City where he has covered sports since 1980.

Grant Wahl - Grant Wahl joined Sports Illustrated in November 1996 as a reporter and was promoted to his current position of senior writer in October 2000. Wahl’s writing for SI and SI.com includes college basketball, soccer, investigative reporting, and features on a variety of topics. He began his career with the Miami Herald in 1996.

Joel Rose - Joel Rose is a reporter for WHYY in Philadelphia. His stories also appear on NPR’s All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Day to Day. His favorite diversions include gardening, cooking, traveling, and playing keyboards for various indie rock bands. He ran the 2005 Chicago Marathon in just under four hours, a feat he is considered unlikely to repeat.

George Carter - George Carter, our youth hockey analyst, has won 22 championships in 73 youth hockey leagues coaching midgets, mites, peewees and squirts, as well as bedbugs, amoebas, nutrinos, and quarks. Asked recently about the fighting in the National Hockey League, Carter replied, “What about it?”

Helene Elliot - Helene is a sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times and has covered baseball, hockey, soccer, basketball, track and field, figure skating water polo and everything else that has been thrown at her over the years. She has covered 10 Olympics and more Stanley Cup finals than most NHL players have teeth.

Kathleen Adams - After moving from New Hampshire to Louisville, Kentucky in 1998, Kathleen Adams soon developed a strong interest in horse racing which lead to her first Only a Game feature, "Gentlemen’s Agreement." In 2000, Adams took a break from public radio and went to work on the backside of Churchill Downs as a hotwalker. She’s currently assistant news director at member station WUKY in Lexington, Kentucky.

Ken Shulman - Ken Shulman cut his journalistic teeth during a fifteen year holiday in Italy, where he covered Italian soccer for The Associated Press, and later for The Times of London, Newsweek, and The New York Times. Multilingual – he claims to be the only American who speaks the recondite Logodorese Sardinian dialect - Ken publishes widely on sports, culture, politics, and fine arts.

Bud Collins - Bud Collins, who reports on major tennis events for "Only a Game," has covered almost every important sporting event during his illustrious career. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1994 and was awarded the Red Smith Award in June 1999. In his travels, Bud searches far corners of the world to find fabric for his colorful trademark trousers, each a unique creation that you can see on BudCollinsTennis.com.

Sean Cole - In 1997, Sean Cole landed an internship in the WBUR newsroom. Strangely, they kept him around. As well as being Only A Game’s Belt Sander Racing correspondent, he reports for Weekend America and Marketplace and has also contributed to This American Life, All Things Considered, Studio 360 and other programs.

Jon Kalish - Jon Kalish is a free-lance radio reporter and print journalist who has been heard on National Public Radio for more than 25 years. Jon edits and mixes his radio stories on a Macintosh computer and recently started producing podcasts. He shares a loft in Manhattan with his wife Pamela, a painter, and two Siamese cats named Max and Izzy.

Charlie Schroeder - Charlie Schroeder is a writer, actor, and “radio guy” who has contributed to Only a Game since 2003. His story "A (Fishing) Hole in One" was published in the Los Angeles Times Magazine and selected for inclusion in the Best American Sports Writing, 2006. His antics are captured at http://charlieschroeder.net/.

Monica Brady-Myerov - Monica Brady-Myerov has been a radio reporter for more than fifteen years. After graduating from Brown University she was a freelance reporter in Kenya and then Brazil. She worked at the Christian Science Monitor as a producer and then as a correspondent in Washington, DC. She is currently a reporter for the NPR station WBUR-FM in Boston. She loves to snowboard and once climbed Mt. Kenya.

Judith Ritter - Judith Ritter is a freelance radio and print journalist who has brought OAG stories of everything from ice hockey in Hong Kong to dogsled racing in Jamaica. She runs. She swims, but her favorite sport, for sure, is participating in the daily espresso and morning newspaper event held at cafes around the world.

Chuck Quirmbach covers Milwaukee for Wisconsin Public Radio. He’s been fortunate enough to have stories on NPR, VOA, The Environment Report, and some radio networks that are now just a sound in his mind. Highlights of his lengthy sports career include joining the Carbon Daters platoon of his local softball teams, and nicknaming his circa 1930’s A.G. Spaulding golf putter, "The Spatula."

Ron Schachter - After producing Monitor Radio’s early morning show for one sleepless year, Ron Schachter took to the road 17 years ago as a poor man’s Charles Kuralt, finding interesting and quirky stories for various NPR shows, from Weekend Sunday to Performance Today. Nowadays, Ron travels less, but following in the footsteps of our intrepid host, also teaches writing at a Boston-area college.

Tim Kurkjian is a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine, and a columnist for ESPN.com. He is an analyst/reporter for ESPN television, and has been a regular on Baseball Tonight for 10 years. For the eight years prior to ESPN, he was a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. For the 10 years before that, he wrote baseball for the Dallas Morning News and the Baltimore Sun.

Michelle Seaton - Michelle Seaton has been a contributor to Only A Game since 1995 when she filed a semi-investigative report on semi-pro football. She is a senior contributor to Worth magazine whose work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Yankee Magazine, Bostonia, Robb Report, Reader’s Digest and Midwest Express magazine.

Nancy Greenleese discovered radio in the 1970s during those few hours a day when she wasn’t underwater training as a swimmer. Before moving to Rome, Nancy worked as a public reporter and anchor in Denver and San Diego. She began her radio career in Philadelphia where she helped edit and produce NPR’s "Fresh Air" and was part of the team that launched NPR’s "World Café." She’s a proud member of the Association for Women in Sports Media.