This week on Only A Game, meet the travelling Harpers, the husband and wife coaching duo currently enjoying basketball bliss at NC State. Also, a college football roundup, and hut, hut, hike those garters up, ladies…it’s the Lingerie Football League.

One of the most famous athletes of the 20th century, Sugar Ray Robinson is also one of the most complex. In his new book, Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson, author Wil Haygood contends that Robinson belongs with many of the luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.

This week on Only A Game, the story of the young, talented, and suddenly high-flying Atlanta Hawks. Also, how the synthetic surface called Snowflex is putting the schussing and sliding into snowless ski areas, and writer George Kimball tells the boxing tales of Hagler, Hearns, Leonard, and Duran.

Next month, 46 year old Evander Holyfield will attempt to become the oldest man to win a heavyweight title.  Bill Littlefield is dismayed. 

Bill Littlefield reviews a very different boxing book by Bob Halloran.

Thirty years ago, two former heavyweight champions, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, fought for the third and final time.

Arts commentator Bill Marx offers his thoughts on sports writer A.J. Liebling.

Writer Bill Heinz is inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame.

A look at the book on boxing by Thomas Hauser.

Boxing is the only game set up to guarantee that virtually everyone will get hurt badly.