Only A Game’s Ron Schachter visits with the University of Vermont baseball team as they finish out their last season, and brought back these photos.

Only A Game’s Karen Given visited the Volvo Ocean Race at Fan Pier in Boston.

For some, this time of year is magical. Playoffs in the NBA and NHL combine with the regular seasons of baseball and soccer to saturate the public thirst for competition. But for others, like commentator Bill Littlefield, the craving is occasionally for something the sports culture has labeled taboo: A break.

As the Yankees settle into their new stadium, nearby schools have lamented the loss of their old sports digs. This week on Only A Game, broken promises over replacement parks on the site of old Yankee stadium. Also, a cricket tour of Eastern Europe.

In 1821 the president of Williams College left to found Amherst College. A great rivalry began and in 1859 the two western Massachusetts schools played the first intercollegiate baseball game, on neutral ground in Pittsfield, MA. Only A Game’s Doug Tribou attended a vintage game honoring the 150th anniversary and brought back some photos.

Only A Game’s Kirk Carapezza visits All Hallows School in the Bronx, where the construction of the new Yankee Stadium has left the school’s athletes without a place to play.

Angus Bell’s book, Batting on the Bosphorus: A Liquor Fueled Cricket Tour through Eastern Europe, might not teach you much about the game of cricket. But, Bill Littlefield says, it will keep you laughing.

With teams in the NBA and NFL playoffs and a perfect record against their MLB rivals, Boston’s sports teams are dazzling fans this spring. In light of all this fun, Bill Littlefield muses on what it means to be a fan.

Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest human, will miss his first major meet of 2009, the Jamaica Invitational, after a car accident on Wednesday. Bolt and his passengers were not seriously hurt, but he won’t race until May 17th, at which point he’ll be more rested than he was after last Sunday’s Puma Street Meet at the Boston Harbor. Only A Game’s Karen Given was on the scene to capture the event.

This week on “Only A Game,” don’t blink, because Usain Bolt, the speediest person on the planet, will make a very fast appearance. Also, a Kentucky Derby preview, and former Yankees All-Star Bernie Williams drops by our studio with guitar in hand.