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.

They were made out to be radical outcasts during their time, but today are known as pioneers; athletes like Bill Russell, Paul Robeson, Tommie Smith, John Carlos, among many others took public stands against policies they disagreed with at the sake of their careers. “Reconstructing Fame” examines the controversial positions these athletes took and how culture followed. Bill Littlefield reviews “Reconstructing Fame.”

It’s not clear whether Mark Barrowcliffe was a nerd during his adolescence because he played Dungeorns and Dragons all the time, or whether he played Dungeons and Dragons all the time because he was a nerd.

This week on Only A Game, the Arizona Cardinals have made it to the second round of the NFL playoffs. No, that’s not a type-o. Plus, we’ll meet an 11-year-old goalie who’s already stopping slap shots from her high school opponents, and hear the reflections of a former role playing addict now departed from the world of Dungeons and Dragons.

The NFL’s second round of playoff games will transpire on Saturday and Sunday. Commentator Bill Littlefield acknowledges that his attention will be on one particular player…and how hard he gets hit.

This week on Only A Game, the Portland Trailblazers expunge the “jail” prefix in their quest for the NBA’s Northwest Conference title. Also, college bowl and NFL wildcard weekend previews, and the best American sports writing of 2008.

Why do hundreds of people come to Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln every year to watch rats climb ropes?  Because it’s the Xtreme Rat Challenge, of course!  Only A Game’s Martin Wells attended this year, and he brought his camera.