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.

This week on “Only A Game,” an Independence Day conversation about an American named Armstrong, bicycling in France. We’ll update the tennis from Jolly England, and we’ll have a fishing story about a Greek. But he’s fishing in New York, and he’s pretty independent.

David Falk made a living representing Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, and many other big-name professional athletes. In “The Bald Truth,” he shares the secrets to his success in the competitive world of sports agents. Bill Littlefield got a chance to read The Bald Truth and now he reviews it.

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.

In professional sports, the purpose of a player’s union is to protect the interests of it’s athletes. However, this is not always the case. Bill Littlefield comments on the class action lawsuit filed by retired NFL players against their own union, the National Football League Players Association.

Bill Littlefield has a few suggestions for the MLB and the player’s union so that maybe next year’s World Series won’t be played in freezing rain and snow…maybe.