Bill sizes up the competition in the first World Baseball Classic with columnist Rick Hurd of the Contra Costa Times.

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Only A Game's Sean Cole catches up with the South African team in Cape Town, South Africa, where baseball itself is something of an underdog.

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More than 1,300 dogs and 80 mushers will start the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race today in Anchorage, Alaska. The Iditarod is considered mushing's foremost competition, but for some purists, real mushers go in for Alaska's other thousand mile race, the Yukon Quest. Libby Casey reports from Fairbanks, Alaska.

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Will Blythe begins his new book about the basketball rivalry between the University of North Carolina and Duke University by declaring "I am a sick, sick man." Blythe joined Bill from North Carolina to discuss the book.

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Bill and Only A Game analyst Charlie Pierce discuss: bargaining off the field, creating the next dream team, and training for another season.

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It's March...time for the annual spectacle of bouncing basketballs and brainy bracketology, but the calendar's third month is also crunch time for fencing, gymnastics, ice hockey and the other college winter sports, like the one Only A Game's Karen Given recently observed in the college sports hotbed of Las Vegas.