Either Roger Clemens or former trainer Brian McNamee is lying. Bill Littlefield doesn’t know who’s telling the truth, but that doesn’t stop him from writing a few lines of poetry about that conflict.

Neil Swidey’s new book follows the Charlestown High School basketball team for a season and tells larger stories about the players’ lives. But, Bill Littlefield says, this book is much more ambitious than most “season in the life” books.

Bowl Season with Dan Wetzel; NHL’s Icy Experiment; Terrible T’wolves; “Mr. Basketball”; Letters; Wild Cards and More with Charlie Pierce; The Fighting Craftspeople

New England sports fans are counting their blessings right now, but Bill Littlefield thinks they just might be counting the wrong things.

Bill Littlefield reviews Michael Schumacher’s new book, “Mr. Basketball: George Mikan, The Minneapolis Lakers, and the Birth of the N.B.A.”