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There's the sports world and
there's the rest of the world; NPR brings them together on Only
A Game.
An
award-winning weekly sports magazine hosted by veteran NPR
commentator Bill Littlefield, Only A Game is radio for the serious
sports fan and the steadfast sports avoider. Produced by WBUR in
Boston, Only A Game puts sports in perspective with intelligent
analysis, insightful interviews, and a keen sense humor.
Crafted to
lead into Weekend Edition Saturday, the hour-long program is
characterized by Littlefield's exceptional writing and affable
personality. Only A Game tells the stories behind the box scores,
including the explosion of interest in women's sports, competitive
opportunities for the disabled, and the business of sports -- as
well as who wins and who loses.
Guests on
Only A Game have included writers John Updike, Robert Pinsky, and
Roger Angell; commentators Bud Collins and Tim Kurkjian; current
and former athletes Muhammad Ali, Kristine Lilly, Senator Bill
Bradley, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; and coaches Pat Summit and Geno
Auriemma.
From
Little League to the Big Leagues, from the Super Bowl to Soccer
Moms, Only A Game is sports -- NPR style.
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Bill
Littlefield
Host, Only
A Game
Bill
Littlefield, nationally known author and veteran sports
commentator, hosts WBUR and National Public Radio's Only
A Game, a weekly one-hour sports magazine. Littlefield
has provided audiences with a weekly tour through the world
of sports since 1993 from WBUR in Boston. The show has
covered a wide range of sports topics, from the basics of
who wins and loses to issues such as racism and career
opportunities for the disabled.
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Littlefield
has been a commentator for National Public Radio since 1984.
He is the writer-in-residence at Curry College in Milton,
Massachusetts, where he has been a humanities professor
since 1976. He also taught sports writing and other writing
courses at the Harvard University Summer School and the John
F. Kennedy School Summer Program for Masters Candidates from
1981 to 1987.
Bill
Littlefield's publications include: Keepers:
Radio Stories from Only A Game and Elsewhere; Baseball
Days, a collection of essays with photographs by Henry
Horenstein; Champions: The Stories of Ten Remarkable Athletes; a piece entitled
"A Storied Career" in Ted
Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures; and the
novel Prospect, for which he also wrote a screenplay. He is the editor of
Houghton Mifflin's
The Best American Sports Writing, 1998.
In
addition to writing books and essays, Littlefield has
regularly contributed commentaries to Monitor Television's
"Opinion Page," as well as in The
Atlanta Constitution, The
L.A. Times, and Newsday.
Bill
Littlefield has won six Associated Press Awards, and has
been celebrated as one of Boston's "Literary Lights"
by the associates of the Boston Public Library. He is a
graduate of Yale University (cum
laude) and the Harvard University of Education. He lives
in Needham, Massachusetts, with his wife Mary Atlee and
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