This week on Only A Game, a member of the 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team puts the Miracle Theory on ice. Also, a Vancouver wrap up, and the story of the Boston sports league that helps adolescents overcome trauma, abuse and neglect.

For the athletes competing at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, sports can bring fame, fortune, and even redemption. Not every athlete will make it to the Olympics, but for the 400 teenagers playing sports in the Doc Wayne Athletic League, sports just might be the key to their success. Only A Game’s Karen Given has our story.

The Vancouver Olympics are coming to a close, but don’t worry winter sports fans, the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia are less than half a decade away! We get a taste of the site of the next Winter Olympics, and look back at the unforgettable fashions of Vancouver.

In the 1980 Winter Olympics, the U.S. Hockey Team defeated the Soviet Union in an upset still known as the Miracle on Ice. All the same, Dave Silk, who played for the Americans, has never been comfortable with that title. He shares his thoughts on “the miracle thing” and how he’d like the game to be remembered.

Only A Game Senior Producer Gary Waleik offers his weekly thoughts on the music we use for the show, and proves he’s highly susceptible to the advances of Joan Osborne.

Rus Bradburd’s new book, Forty Minutes of Hell: The Extraordinary Life of Nolan Richardson, tells the story of one of the first black coaches to run a basketball team at a predominantly white college, and how he led the University of Arkansas to the 1994 National Championship. Bill reviews the book and takes his own look at Richardson’s career.

Figure skating, snowboarding, and ski jumping are just a few of the sports where judges can determine the outcome of the event. Some have argued that sports like football and basketball are more pure because they’re not so subjective. Bill Littlefield thinks those fans should think again.

The Winter Olympics present millions of people with the opportunity to pay rapt attention to figure skating and bobsledding, not to mention luge, skeleton, cross-country skiing, and biathlon. All, of course, are sports…or are they? Bill Littlefield hopes you won’t accuse him of skating around that question.

The Only A Game team loves the silly side of sports. That includes a hugging record and the latest fashion trends at the Olympics. Check out two of Bill Littlefield’s favorite “sports” stories from the past week or so, complete with links to photos!

This week on Only A Game, the latest sliding, skiing, sledding, sweeping, salchow, and sit-spinning news from Vancouver. Also, we’ll check into the New York hotel that goes to the dogs each year during the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.