Each year, the small town of Waterbury, Vermont holds the Intergalactic Winter Croquet Tournament to celebrate the last weekend of winter. Excited for spring, Only A Game’s Karen Given refused to miss this year’s event, and took some photos of the competition.

Only A Game Senior Producer Gary Waleik offers his weekly thoughts on the music we use for the show.

In his new book, Straight Down the Middle: Shivas Irons, Bagger Vance, and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Golf Swing, Josh Karp documents his long and winding quest to improve his golf game. Bill shares his thoughts on the book.

This week brought the news that Tiger Woods will return to the pro golf tour next month at the Masters Tournament in Augusta. Bill Littlefield is among those curious about how a man who’s become notorious for all the wrong reasons will fare when he returns to the golf course.

Two more strange news items that have some sort of connection (even a very small one) to sports. This week, Bill shares the stories of a sumo wrestler who needed some cash fast and a national anthem controversy for our neighbors to the north.

Sixty-four teams are good, so 128 must be better! This week on Only A Game, should the March Madness field be increased to include just about everybody? Also, the round-the-world saga of Canadian hero and Paralympian Rick Hansen.

Everybody knows that Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball. Bill Littlefield reviews a book that covers interactions between black and white baseball players before 1947.

Every week “Only A Game” brings you a variety of sports-related music. (Ok, sometimes “sports-related” is an exaggeration.) And every week, Senior Producer Gary Waleik writes about what we play and why he chose it.

College basketball bubble teams find out their fate on Sunday and Monday when the brackets are announced for the NCAA tournament. But, Only A Game’s Bill Littlefield’s favorite basketball moment has already come and gone.

Every week Bill chooses two favorites from the never-ending flow of ridiculous sports stories. Today he looks at the problems that arise when a drunken rugby player stumbles upon a golf cart. And fresh off the excitement of Olympic curling in Vancouver, Bill shares the details of the new “sport” of “human curling.”