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View the full archive of NPR: Only A Game Only A Game 11/21/2009 New Jersey Nets - Hockey Masks - NCAA Women's Basketball - Rock The Ages - Letters - Charlie Pierce - Spartak Moscow Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rock the Ages At Rock the Ages, a three-on-three women's basketball tournament, women from all different generations play basketball to raise money for a Massachusetts High School's Girls' Basketball program. Only A Game's Karen Given took in this year's tournament. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Are you ready for some football? On Sunday, Major League Soccer will determine their champion, when the Los Angeles Galaxy and Real Salt Lake face each other in Seattle. According to Bill, the league is delighted with the presence of at least one of the teams in the championship game. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Only A Game 11/14/2009 ESPNs Pat Forde on Mens NCAA Basketball Columbus Blue Jackets Yahoo Sports Dan Wetzel Chad Ochocinco Andre Agassi Charlie Pierce sports week wrap up Madura Racing Bulls Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Only A Game 11/07/2009 Yankees - Duke Football - NBA - Sheboygan Redskins - Letters - Charlie Pierce - The Book Of Basketball Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Book of Basketball Can you argue for days about the relative virtues of Bill Walton and Dave Cowens? Are you more interested in reforming the Basketball Hall of Fame than the country's healthcare system? Then Bill Simmons' The Book of Basketball might just be your bible. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parity? What parity? The NFL's head-honchos would have you believe that anything can happen on any given Sunday. But many fans of teams in the bottom-half of the league have already left their teams for dead. Bill asks, "Where's the parity we hear so much about?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Only A Game 10/31/2009 World Series - Tiffany's Trophies - Bengals - Oyster Shucking - Letters - Charlie Pierce - The First Fall Classic Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The First Fall Classic Though many fans remember baseball in the early 20th-century as a different age in which players played "for the love of the game," baseball players were no different then than they are now. In his book, The First Fall Classic, author Mike Vaccaro explores the making (or re-making) of baseball. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Scary Baseball Sight The 2009 World Series cannot end before early November... a circumstance which has many complaining that the baseball season is too long. Bill thinks Major League Baseball can quiet that criticism and win new fans as well by taking advantage of the fact that there will be a game on Halloween night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Only A Game 10/24/2009 NCAA Football - On Wisconsin - MLB Umpires - The Opposite Field - Charlie Pierce - Beagling Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Opposite Field In The Opposite Field, author Jesse Katz writes about baseball, sure. But Katz's extraordinarily candid memoir is really about fatherhood, community, and life's bumps and road-blocks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Super Bowl of Championships Often, baseball's World Series reminds fans of bygone days. Bill isn't sure if that's a good thing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Only A Game 10/17/2009 MLB Weather - J.P. Ricciardi - Soccer News - John O'Brien - Letters - Charlie Pierce - K2 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | There Is No Joy in Saint Louis In various cities fans are coming to terms with the disappearance of their baseball teams from the playoffs. According to Bill, for some of those fans, there's solace in other games...for others, not so much. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K2 Though slightly smaller than Everest, K2 is known by many as the world's most perilous summit. Bill talks with Ed Viesturs, mountaineer and author of K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain, about conquering the treacherous peak. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Only A Game 10/10/2009 MLB Update - Phoenix Coyotes - Olympic Update - 100 Greatest Sports Movies - Letters - Charlie Pierce - NBDL Tryout Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hoop Dreams This winter will mark the first season for NBA Development League team the Maine Red Claws. Only A Game Associate Producer Doug Tribou puts his hoop dreams to the test as he tries to make the team. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Perect, At Least In Memory For at least one eight-year old, Don Larson's perfect game in the World Series was, in fact, perfect. Was. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Only A Game 10/03/2009 Phillies - Metrodome - NFL Head Injuries - NHL - Losing Season - Charlie Pierce - Right To Play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |