Only A Game’s Senior Producer Gary Waleik shares his thoughts on this week’s musical selections.

Politics? Technology? Romance? According a new book, every fundamental shift in human experience can be explained through the game of ping pong. Roger Bennett and Eli Horowitz join Bill to discuss, Everything You Know is Pong.

Bill and Only A Game analyst Charlie Pierce discuss: impending NBA and NFL lockouts, patriotic NCAA violations, and Kobe Bryant’s unlikely mentor.

Bill Littlefield sifts through some recent listener comments.

In this country, black and Latino children are three times more likely to die from drowning as white children.  When Cullen Jones was five years old, he narrowly avoiding become part of that statistic.  Today, he’s an Olympic gold medalist in swimming, and he travels the country encouraging minority kids to learn how to swim.  [...]

Brad Childress became Minnesota’s fall guy this week when he lost his job coaching the Vikings.  CBS Sports national columnist Gregg Doyel chats with Bill about that and other NFL news.

When this college football season began, UNC football was ranked in the top 20 and were picked by some to play in a BCS bowl game.  But, allegations of agent payoffs and academic fraud led to the suspension of more than a dozen players, seven of whom missed the entire season.  North Carolina Public Radio’s [...]

The news from the Cam Newton investigation has been quiet this week.  Bill Littlefield turns to Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports for the latest on that and other NCAA football developments.

This week on Only A Game, Yahoo! Sports columnist Dan Wetzel talks about all things college football, including Friday’s Iron Bowl between Auburn and Alabama. Also, Olympian Cullen Jones tours the country to promote swimming. And, an ode to the might, the glory, and the splendor of…ping pong?

On the holiday designated for giving thanks, Bill Littlefield finds himself thinking about various things for which sports fans, himself included, can be grateful.