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This Week on Only A Game, a report from Japan, where the Red Sox and A’s recently opened the 2008 Major League Baseball Season.  Also, an NCAA Hoops update, and the Sons of Ben Franklin declare their love for Philadelphia’s MLS squad just two short years before their first game.

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This week on Only A Game, early signs of madness in the NCAA and NIT Tournaments.  Also, how the Cal Tech Beavers lost each of their conference games for 22 years while engineering the dammedest losing streaks imaginable, and the seasonal migration of the Blue Jays in spring.

With March Madness in full swing, it’s only fitting to talk College Hoops.  With that in mind, Bill Littlefield has the review of Quantum Hoops, a film documenting Caltech Basketball.  As Bill says,  Director Rick Greenwald tells an entertaining story about a below average basketball team made up of above average young men.

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This week on Only A Game, college basketball craziness in advance of the thoroughly insane Selection Sunday. Also, St. Lawrence University shoots for their fourth Frozen Four, and Dodgertown prepares to pull up stakes in Florida after a 60 year residency.

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Will the Sonics leave Seattle? And, if so, will it be sooner or later before they re-settle in Oklahama? Get it? Sooner? We’ll have that story this week on Only A Game. Also, free sledding grabs winter sports enthusiasts by the knees.

 In The Franchise, Terry Pluto and Brian Windhorst provide an inside look into the construction of the Cleveland Cavaliers around mega-star LeBron James, and how Cleveland management has revitalized the franchise. Bill Littlefield reviews the book.

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This week on Only A Game, Bill Littlefield travels to spend some time with the number one men’s basketball team in the country. Memphis? No….Bentley! Also, Tim Kurkjian reports for his first 2008 assignment, and skiing Colorado’s smaller slopes.

The NBA and NHL are both experimenting with outdoor regular season games. As Bill Littlefield comments, they may not exactly be returning to the roots of their sports, but the open air contests can still be fun to watch.

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This week, the NBA at the season’s middle, a trip to the US Table Tennis Olympic Qualifiers and don your funny hats and grab your muzzle loaders, it’s the primitive biathlon!