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Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 10:00 am

NFL quarterback Michael Vick served time for dog fighting. Now he’s been conditionally reinstated by the league. Should he be allowed to play? And what does it say about the big business of pro sports?

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Friday, May 22, 2009 at 11:00 am

NBA and Boston Celtics basketball legend Bill Russell reflects on a life on the court and his friendship with coaching great, Red Auerbach.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 11:00 am

Hoop dreams, pushing ever-younger, and the story of one 13-year-old now groomed for basketball stardom.

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Friday, December 19, 2008 at 11:00 am

NFL wives speak out. Are their husbands suffering brain damage from playing in the National Football League?

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Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 10:00 am

From the athletes, to media coverage, to China’s image, we’ll take stock of what we’ve seen in Beijing.

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Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 10:00 am

With the Beijing Olympics set to begin, we talk with a top sports psychologist, herself a world class athlete, about what it takes.

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Friday, April 4, 2008 at 11:00 am

Yankee Stadium is coming down this year. It’s the last season for the House that Babe Ruth built. First put up in 1923. Got rehabbed in 1976. And now, it’s going down.
The site where Knute Rockne said “Win one for the Gipper.” (Yes, they played football there, too). Where Joe DiMaggio began his 56-game hitting [...]

 
Monday, March 31, 2008 at 11:00 am

It is now less than six months to the opening ceremonies of the summer Olympic Games in Beijing. The Olympic torch has begun its journey. Olympic politics — over Tibet and Darfur and more — are in full gear.
And in pools and on tracks and pommel horses across the country, top American athletes are swinging [...]

 
Friday, December 14, 2007 at 11:00 am

The Mitchell report is out. Names are named. Reputations, careers — for many, an entire national pastime — darkened by the biggest scandal to hit baseball since the 1919 White Sox earned the “Black Sox” tag by throwing the World Series.
Now we have the “steroids era.” Former Senator George Mitchell’s report fingers 89 Major League [...]

 
On Point Today
The Pandora Effect
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We’ll talk with the founder of Pandora, the online music service that claims it knows what you’ll want to hear.

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Week in the News
Friday, November 20, 2009 image

Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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