Only A Game’s Senior Producer Gary Waleik blogs weekly so you can figure out what songs to buy – or avoid – after hearing them during the program.
Michael Jordan won six NBA titles and appeared on 57 Sports Illustrated covers. Red Auerbach won nine rings, but has never graced the front of the magazine. Bill speaks to Terry McDonell, editor of the Sports Illustrated Group, about a new book featuring all of the SI’s covers from the magazine’s 50-year history.
Alex Ovechkin is already a hockey superstar. Can he conquer the rap world next? Charlie Pierce joins Bill to discuss Ovechkin’s entry into the recording industry, as well as the rest of this week’s sports news.
Before game one of the World Series, a group of Giants legends from the team’s New York and San Francisco eras threw out ceremonial first pitches. Bill reflects on some old Giants memories in his commentary.
Major League ballplayers disagree on what haunts the Pfister Hotel. Some say they’ve heard mysterious screams from a young child, others a strange knocking on their door, but many players agree that some sort of supernatural spirit wanders the halls of the Pfister. WUWM’s Mitch Teich reports.
The San Francisco Giants have shown they can pitch and hit in taking the first two games of the World Series from the Texas Rangers. Bill speaks to ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian to find out if the Rangers can turn it around at home.
The Miami Heat may be attracting a lot of attention thanks to LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh, but they aren’t the only NBA team worth paying attention to this season. Bill discusses the storylines around the rest of the NBA with our regular hoops analyst FoxSports.com’s Kevin Hench.
Before the Miami Heat bring a title to South Beach, they’ll have to get past the defending Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics. The Heat’s loss to Boston on opening night showed that the new “Big Three” may be further from that goal than some originally thought. Bill Littlefield has the story.
Baseball players are notoriously superstitious, but do they have good reason for staying away from Milwaukee’s Pfister Hotel? This week on Only A Game, we’ll hear some stories from the supposedly haunted hostel. Plus, we break down the World Series with Tim Kurkjian and Bill reports from the world-beating, future NBA Champion Miami Heat’s opening loss the Boston Celtics.
As the present version of the San Francisco Giants try to win the team’s first World Series in over 50 years, Bill remembers some Giants greats from the past.




