Barry Bonds’ prejury trial was scheduled to begin next week, but a late appeal delayed it. This week on Only A Game, which legal team will hit the most home runs? Also, a World Baseball Classic Preview, and remembering Game 7 of the 1960 World Series between the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates.

Gymnastics has been losing ground at the college level, and high schools have been cancelling programs as fewer and fewer students have expressed interest in the sport. But Only A Game’s Karen Given recently found a place where – stumbles, missteps, and unstuck landings notwithstanding – the popularity of gymnastics has been growing among adults: Chelsea Pier. Karen shares her pictures and video.

Jim Reisler’s “The Best Game Ever” is an enthusiastic retelling of the events of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Bill doesn’t review the 1960 game, but he does review Reisler’s book.

An empty bottle from which the owner says Tiger Woods drank during the 2007 PGA Championship appeared for auction on Ebay this week. The asking price was twenty five thousand dollars. This gave commentator Bill Littlefield hope in his attempt to weather the current financial crisis.

This week on “Only A Game,” we’ll visit the Wimbledon of stair-racing competitions, and we’ll discuss “A Course Called Ireland” with a golfer who walked between the island’s links layouts as well as along them. We’ll wade into women’s college hoops and the NBA, too.

Every year there are hundreds of athletes who choose to take in the views of the Empire State Building the hard way: by racing to the top. Only A Game’s Karen Given was on the scene earlier this month for the 32nd Annual Empire State Building Run-Up; she shares her photos from the event.

As spring training gets underway in Florida and in Arizona, many of the stories have been about steroids and the players who’ve used them, and those who might have done so. Commentator Bill Littlefield has been trying instead to think of Ernie Banks, the hall-of-fame Cubs shortstop who liked to say – no matter what the weather – “It’s a beautiful day. Let’s play two.”

Tom Coyne, author of “A Course Called Ireland,” loves golf. That’s evident in his book in which he tells his story of how he walked all around Ireland playing as many courses as he could. He also experienced the culture, weather, beer, food and everything else the country has to offer. This week Bill reviews Coyne’s journey and his book, “A Course Called Ireland.”

It’s hard to find anyone these days who doesn’t have an opinion about Alex Rodriguez’s admission that he used steroids. Bill Littlefield wasn’t one of those who was counting on A-Rod to be the savior of baseball’s reputation. But, he’s still irked by the latest news.

If Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby is The Beatles, then Washington’s Alex Ovechkin must be The Rolling Stones. This week on “Only A Game,” a tale of two hockey rockstars. Also, the latest in the A-Rod affair and a day on the slopes with The National Brotherhood of Skiers.