This week on Only A Game, the latest sliding, skiing, sledding, sweeping, salchow, and sit-spinning news from Vancouver. Also, we’ll check into the New York hotel that goes to the dogs each year during the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

Only A Game’s Doug Tribou took his camera down to Fenway Park for the NHL’s 3rd Annual Winter Classic. See Doug’s photos and listen to his story about the phenomenon of outdoor hockey.

Will the second jewel of Horse Racing’s Triple Crown end up in hock? This week on Only A Game, Baltimore’s storied Pimlico Race Track tries to rein in impatient creditors. Also, saying goodbye to 120 years of University of Vermont baseball.

This week on Only A Game, the latest March Madness news, including Morehead State’s unlikely berth into the NCAA men’s tournament. Plus, peeling back the curtain on one of baseball’s most enigmatic sluggers: Manny Ramirez. And from the thrill of good water pressure to the agony of a clog, it’s the Plumbers’ Olympics.

On Sunday – Selection Sunday – college basketball fans will find out the rest of the teams that will be involved in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament…an event that will consume millions of sports fans from then until early April, when a champion is crowned. Bill Littlefield is anticipating the madness and its potential benefits.

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.

Beginning in mid-March, Bob Knight, who has presided over more Division One wins than any other men’s basketball coach, and Billy Packer, who spent twenty seven years broadcasting college games for CBS, will be discussing the product with which they are both thoroughly familiar from a bookmaking establishment in Las Vegas. Commentator Bill Littlefield wonders if you find that arrangement as bizarre as he does.

This week on Only A Game, a flash forward to the Final Fours for the fellows and for the females. Also, Cubs fans anticipate a possible Wrigley renaming or renovation, and Pi-loving math geeks assemble for a contest …not for gorging, but for recitation.

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.

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.