Will he goad the NFL, propose marriage or change his name yet again? This week on Only A Game, Karen Given fills-in for Bill and talks with Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver and provocateur Chad Ochocinco. Also, college basketball with Pat Forde and Indonesian bull racing.

Just like the wide receiver’s work on the field, Chad Ochocinco’s new autobiography is entertaining. But, Karen Given discovers, it’s certainly not teeming with literary merit.

The NFL’s head-honchos would have you believe that anything can happen on any given Sunday. But many fans of teams in the bottom-half of the league have already left their teams for dead. Bill asks, “Where’s the parity we hear so much about?”

This week on Only A Game, World Series trophy making with the fiery silversmiths of Tiffany and Company, which also produces championship trophies for the NFL and the NBA. Also, knives and mollusks fly at a Cape Cod oyster shucking competition.

As we wait to see which two teams will meet in the fall classic beginning next week, Bill has found himself thinking about a time when the World Series had fewer neighbors.

In various cities fans are coming to terms with the disappearance of their baseball teams from the playoffs. According to Bill, for some of those fans, there’s solace in other games…for others, not so much.

A recently published study indicates that former NFL players have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and dementia much more frequently than their counterparts in the population at large. Bill tries to put those findings and their consequences in perspective.

The oxen of the autumnal equinox are back on the fields! This week on Only A Game, an NFL season preview. Also, recalling Staten Island high school football when Staten Island was still an island, a US Open update, and a bicycle race for donut lovers.

This week on Only A Game, a conversation with the author of a new biography of late Yankees catcher Thurman Munson. Also, taking in all the weirdness at a Washington Nationals home game and all the trash at a rodeo featuring front-loaders, side loaders and all manner of garbage trucks.

This week on “Only A Game,” the latest from the NHL playoffs, and the science behind what makes a slapshot, well, slap. Also, we’ll speak with the author of “Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town.”