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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 [...]

 
Recent Shows
The Future of Aging
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A surge of new strategies to “manage” aging — from diets to testosterone. We’ll get the story.

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Climate, Congress & Copenhagen
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The Copenhagen climate conference is one month away. US climate action is going nowhere in Congress. We’ll look at the global implications of America’s domestic climate politics.

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On Point Blog
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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For Love of Science – or Money?

A new study supports the idea that U.S. dominance in engineering and science is threatened — but not for lack of training and education. It has more to do with a lack of social and economic incentives.

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Matthew Hoh’s Resignation Letter

Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain, became the first foreign service official to publicly resign in protest over the war in Afghanistan. The move has generated a lot of reaction. You can read Hoh’s resignation letter, posted by The Washington Post, which reported on it here.

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