When the San Jose Sharks lost their NHL conference quarterfinal series to the St. Louis Blues, it marked just the latest taste of playoff disappointment for the team. This season was the Sharks tenth in San Jose. And while the team hasn't become an NHL powerhouse, you wouldn't know it by going to their games. Jay Field reports from San Jose. ESPN'S Tim Kurkjian and Bill Littlefield discuss the surprise winners and losers and the Japanese media frenzy that surrounds Seattle Mariners rookie, Ichiro Suzuki.
Baseball offers the average fan more tragic moments than any other sport.
Bill Littlefield talks with Kuenster about his new book. The United States isn't the only country whose national pastime is baseball. In the third and final part of his series on Cuban sport, Only A Game's Ken Shulman takes a look at baseball in Cuba. Bill Littlefield comments on the U.S. Men's soccer team's improvement from the 1998 World Cup Finals debacle to having the best showing ever in a World Cup Qualifier. Bill Littlefield wraps up his series on the Roxbury Community College Men's Basketball team.