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North Carolina is enjoying a fine season, currently ranked #7 in the country, but if they falter there's a whole crew of Tarheels willing to step in: the UNC J.V. team. (AP)
With no NFL football on Sunday, we turn to… just about everything else. This week on Only A Game, we’ll hear a story from North Carolina’s basketball program, but not the team that you usually see in the highlights. We’ll also hear about a few Major League Soccer prospects that are trying their feet at art. Hockey writer Roy MacGregor joins Bill Littlefield to talk about his new book Wayne Gretzky’s Ghost, and Helene Elliott of the LA Times assesses the NHL season at the All-Star break. All that, plus Charlie Pierce. Join us.
With multi-million dollar television ads and “big day” radio promotions, the Super Bowl has long served as a way for companies to get their message to consumers. But, a recent pitch from a fast food chain has left Only A Game’s Karen Given confused.
Do you think you have what it takes to write a Super Bowl Haiku? Post yours in the comments below and it might be read on the air.
Baltimore and San Francisco fans have labeled Billy Cundiff and Kyle Williams as “goats,” for their mistakes during last Sunday’s AFC and NFC Championship games. Bill offers some perspective for NFL fans who have lost theirs.
Nobody would deny that Boston is a sports town. But which sport? Bill Littlefield tackles the age-old question in his latest commentary.
Statistics, polls, leaders, projected leaders, winners, losers. As primary season rolls on, Bill Littlefield wonders when political coverage started sounding so much like sports broadcasts.
NFL wide receiver Derrick Mason retired this week after 15 years in the league. He is eleventh on the all-time receptions list, but in an era of unprecedented NFL passing, even eleventh place doesn’t guarantee you a spot in the Hall of Fame. Only A Game’s Doug Tribou examines how the history books receive receivers.
David Beckham, the star of Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Galaxy, will be staying stateside, not jumping back across the pond to Europe. Bill Littlefield wonders if Beckham’s new line of underwear is a factor.
A Minnesota resident is accused of punching his eighth-grade son in the face after the boy’s team lost in a basketball tournament on Saturday afternoon. It’s the latest occurrence of a parent losing control over a child’s sporting event.
