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The article discusses former National Hockey League (NHL) players and their potential careers in broadcasting. The author highlights a program put on by Quinnipiac University titled "Life After Hockey." The article outlines the curriculum of the program, discusses former NHL players who took part in the program, and offers excerpts from interviews conducted by the participants.

Presents various news reports regarding the world of sports. Discussion of a new line of collectable coins featuring the likeness of eighty-one Major League Baseball players; Analysis of how former University of Southern California defensive back Shaun Cody is choosing an agent; Assessment of how former National Football League star Deion Sanders is hosting a reality show for Fox Sports Net; Discussion of the Spirit of Jimmy V New York Gala charity event; Others.

The article presents briefs related to sports and athletes. Tennis pro Serena Williams walked the red carpet wearing a $2 million diamond necklace--and a see-through dark pink mesh dress by Stella McCartney. The movie was directed by Williams's boyfriend, Brett Ratner. If ESPN wants its new poker drama, Tilt, to have a dark edge, the network certainly made a good call in casting the show's star. Michael Madsen, best known for his tough-guy roles in Reservoir Dogs and the Kill Bill series, will play a character nicknamed the Matador, who is one of the top gamblers in Las Vegas. Barry Bonds showed a knack for the food service industry at the surprise birthday party he threw for his wife, Elizabeth, last month. Assisted by his personal chef, Bonds played the role of server at Los Angeles hot spot Yi Cuisine. (Wearing all black, Bonds took drink orders and made the ahi tuna tartare tableside before serving the dish to his wife and her friends.) Bonds's interpersonal skills will be on display next month, when he and Alex Rodriguez appear at the Marriott Marquis in New York City on Dec. 10. The two reigning MVPs will have one-on-one conversations with fans--who will have to pay $7,500 for the privilege.

This discusses a television program about the Olympic Games. Forget the fuss over performance-enhancing drugs. According to The Real Olympics, a two-part documentary that compares the Games of ancient Greece with today's, Zeus would have approved if an athlete sought his favor by popping herbs to add zest to the limbs. Airing on PBS on Aug. 3-4, Real Olympics uses dramatizations of contests (enacted by sculpted, scantily clad males) and provides myth-busting fun facts. The Olympics opened, for instance, with the sacrificing of 100 oxen, leaving spectators to deal with blood, smells and flies. In general, the show's experts contend, the original Olympics had little in common with Baron Pierre de Coubertin's late 19th-century idea of amateur athletes competing oh-so-genteelly.

This article focuses on the Cape Cod Baseball League in Massachusetts, which is featured in the television program "Touching the Game." Playing in the 119-year-old Cape Cod Baseball League can be humbling, we learn in "Touching the Game," which airs nationally Saturday at 4 p.m. on WGN. College stars accustomed to aluminum bats routinely see their averages plummet when they switch to the CCBL's wood. But Game really scores when it goes off the field. The kids, many of whom are months away from big contracts (more than 200 current major leaguers played on the Cape), bunk with host families and work menial jobs for minimum wage. The Cincinnati Reds' Sean Casey, who now makes $6.8 million a year, toiled in a supermarket, where he purposely dropped bagels on the floor--so they couldn't be sold and he could take them home to eat.

This article reviews sports related events recently broadcast on television. In addition to winning seven Grand Slam singles titles, John McEnroe has been a broadcaster, an author, a musician and an art gallery owner. But at age 45 he says his new gig on CNBC, as host of the talk show John McEnroe, is the first time in his life that he's had a real job. Media critics have called him a "buffoon" (New York Daily News) and an "over-the-top ... hoop-head" (Philadelphia Daily News), but Stephen A. Smith must be doing something right. The ESPN pro basketball analyst (and Philadelphia Inquirer columnist) has been everywhere lately: offering commentary on SportsCenter, guest hosting Pardon the Interruption and popping up all over the network's NBA programming. (His funkily acidic pronunciation of SLA-va Med-ve-DEN-KO became a damning criticism of the Lakers' forward.) Smith has occasionally clashed with fellow NBA talking head Greg Anthony, but in on-air punditry, of course, he who yelps loudest yelps longest: Smith replaced Anthony on the network's live NBA draft coverage.