This week, the NBA at the season’s middle, a trip to the US Table Tennis Olympic Qualifiers and don your funny hats and grab your muzzle loaders, it’s the primitive biathlon!

Kevin Hench on the NBA; Butler Bulldog Basketball; Table Tennis Qualifier; Irish Thunder; Commentary; Shaq Goes West, Used Syringes, and More with Charlie; Primitive Biathlon

Bill Littlefield reviews a very different boxing book by Bob Halloran.

Bill Littlefield reviews a very different boxing book by Bob Halloran

Bill Littlefield muses on who should be enshrined in his alma mater’s sports Hall of Honor.

Fourth graders at the Dale Street School in Medfield, Massachusetts help Bill Littlefield with his annual Super Bowl haiku segment.  View the photos, courtesy of Erin Prawoko – Medfield Press.

It’s time to test the Pierce postulate: “The Super Bowl is good!” This week on Only A Game, analysis from Phoenix, a look at all the anti-Super Bowl activities for nonbelievers, and some good 17 syllable fun with Super Bowl Haiku XIV.

The Super Bowl with Mike Reiss; Our Lady of the Super Bowl Bargains; Doping in the PGA?; Champions in Search of Competition; Letters; Super Bowl and More with Charlie Pierce; Super Bowl Haiku XIV