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?

Epsom, NH resident Dave Cummings is shooting 1,000,000 free throws in an effort to raise money for US military veterans and their families. Only A Game’s Doug Tribou was on hand for some of Dave’s shooting sessions. Listen to his report and see photos of Cummings on the “charity stripe.”

Over the past few weeks, numbers of coaches making lots of money at one university have moved on to make more money at other universities or in the professional ranks. For some reason, the annual shuffling of high profile coaches has commentator Bill Littlefield thinking of a low profile coach who was also something of a magician.

When it comes to U.S. basketball in the Olympics, it’s easy to focus on the glory days of the past two decades. But where did it all begin, and how did it get to this point? In turning back the clock in his new book, American Hoops: U.S. Men’s Olympic Basketball From Berlin to Beijing, Carson Cunningham reveals that Team USA hasn’t always been a “dream team,” and that in its extensive history, the program has certainly come a long way.

The end of the year offers us the opportunity to look back, and Bill Littlefield is among those taking advantage of that opportunity…though he’s only looking back a week or so.

At Rock the Ages, a three-on-three women’s basketball tournament, women from all different generations play basketball to raise money for a Massachusetts High School’s Girls’ Basketball program. Only A Game’s Karen Given took in this year’s tournament.

This week on Only A Game, the on-again/off-again winter migration plans of the NHL’s Phoenix Coyotes. Also, the latest divisional series baseball news, and a look at the best sports movies, unless they’re the worst.

This week on Only A Game, Minnesotans, most of them shedding no tears, say goodbye to the Metrodome, a high incidence of brain injuries in the NFL, the NHL cranks up the slap shots and poke checks again, the basketball poetry of Jack Ridl, and in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon, girls just wanna play soccer.

As any athlete knows, there are few things more painful than being a part of a bad team. But author Jack Ridl proves that all is not lost in a losing season, as he finds poetry among the heartache and frustration.

This week on Only A Game, will the Cavs ever go where no NBA team representing Cleveland has gone before? Also, a conversation with George Steinbrenner biographer Peter Golenbock, and sawing wood…lots of wood…at Lumberjack College.