| 100% | AGAME | 5 | "Only __": NPR sports program |
| 81% | AGAME | 5 | "Only ___" (NPR sports program) (2 wds.) |
| 54% | ONLYAGAME | 9 | NPR sports podcast (3 wds.) |
| 52% | PREGAME | 7 | Like some sports programs |
| 52% | AGAME | 5 | "Only ___" (NPR program) |
| 51% | EVENT | 5 | Segment of a sports program |
| 49% | ALUMNI | 6 | Frequent donors to college sports programs |
| 49% | ESPN | 4 | Channel with 24/7 sports programming |
| 47% | NCAA | 4 | Organization that hosts school-level sports programs: Abbr. |
| 46% | XFL | 3 | Sports org. that lasted only one season |
| 45% | FRESHAIR | 8 | Terry Gross's NPR program |
| 44% | OCT | 3 | Only mo. all four major sports are played |
| 44% | GIAMATTI | 8 | Only Big Four Sports boss ever named Angelo |
| 44% | SKIJUMP | 7 | Winter sport for flying daredevils only |
| 43% | DAN | 3 | "The ___ Patrick Show" (longtime sports talk program) |
| 43% | ESPN | 4 | Popular television network that broadcasts only sports |
| 43% | LATINO | 6 | "__ USA": NPR program hosted by Maria Hinojosa |
| 43% | HANDBALL | 8 | Sport only debuted in the Summer Olympics of 1936 |
| 43% | PODCAST | 7 | Radio program that plays only whale song? |
| 42% | NCAA | 4 | Org. with an Emerging Sports for Women program |
| 41% | EDITION | 7 | Word after "Weekend" and "Morning," in NPR programming |
| 41% | TBS | 3 | "MLB on ___" (sports program) |
| 40% | SCHIRRA | 7 | Only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs |
| 40% | POLO | 4 | Horseback sport spelled with only one of the vowels |
| 40% | MONOBOB | 7 | Sled sport spelled with only one of the vowels |
| 40% | GOLF | 4 | Course sport spelled with only one of the vowels |
| 39% | DAMN | 4 | "The Best ___ Sports Show Period" (former Fox Sports Net program) |
| 39% | AGAME | 5 | NPR's "Only ___" |
| 39% | MOTOCROSS | 9 | Off-road sport spelled with only one of the vowels |
| 38% | ALL | 3 | "___ Things Considered" (NPR program) |