Check out the new football craze sweeping the nation! That’s right, Only A Game’s Charlie Schroeder reports on the Lingerie Football League.

This week on Only A Game, a cultural history of Montreal Canadiens great Maurice Richard. Also, a pennant race update, and you’re invited to chortle, chuckle, howl and bellow along with the Only A Game staff as we attend a laughter yoga class.

This week on Only A Game, why people would rather sweat for charity than write checks. Also, a football equipment manufacturer feels the heat eight years after the death of Vikings lineman Kory Stringer, and moth sailing takes wing.

This week on Only a Game, our fifteenth offering of Super Bowl Haiku poetry. Also, how Super Bowl TV ads went from superstars to underachievers, and two music critics help us decide the winner in a battle of the Super Bowl fight songs.

On the eve of the Super Bowl, two new cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy – the brain damage associated with multiple concussions – have been in the news. Commentator Bill Littlefield remembers – sort of – one of his worst days as an intramural athlete – and wonders why it’s taking so long for physicians associated with teams to acknowledge the obvious.

This week on Only A Game, the sound of Arizona pinching itself as the Cardinals prepare for Super Bowl XLIII. Also, Trinity College squash tries to extend its title run to an astonishing eleven straight, and Sports Illustrated’s L. Jon Wertheim on the rise of Mixed Martial Arts.

With the Super Bowl just 11 days away, commentator Bill Littlefield offers a few humble suggestions for improving the event.

This week on “Only A Game,” Penn State strives for further football glory, a ghost named Grange gallops again across various gridirons, courtesy of his biographer, and we solve all your seasonal gridlock with our annual “Only A Game” gift guide.

Red Grange was a dominant college football player and the first true star of the National Football League. In his book, The Galloping Ghost: An American Football Legend, Gary Andrew Poole profiles the man who was an American icon long before the NFL was the place where players went to become stars. Bill Littlefield shares [...]

On Monday evening, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell spoke to the issue of New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress, whom Goodell had suspended for the remainder of the regular season after Burress shot himself in the leg with a gun for which he had no New York City license. Plaxico Burress was in a night club [...]