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Friday, February 5, 2010 | 11:00 AM
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We’ll talk with American Olympians and look ahead to the Vancouver Winter Games, opening one week from today.

 
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | 11:00 AM
Tony Hawk, in Los Angeles, June 2009. (AP)

A conversation with Tony Hawk on his new video game, and navigating life’s toughest turns.

 
Monday, November 30, 2009 | 11:00 AM

We’ll look at big-time, big-money college football, and where the game goes from here, with former player and author of “Bowled Over.”

 
Thursday, July 30, 2009 | 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?

 
Friday, May 22, 2009 | 11:00 AM
Bill Russell

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 | 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 | 11:00 AM
Steve Young (AP)

The issue of concussions in football is a hot topic again. Listen back to our show where NFL wives speak out. Are their husbands suffering brain damage from playing?

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Thursday, August 21, 2008 | 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 | 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 | 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 [...]

 
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May 22, 2013
Apple CEO Tim Cook is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations hearing. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Apple in the hot seat. Lawmakers say the company dodged billions in taxes on overseas profits. We’ll look at the world of off shore tax escapes.

May 22, 2013
A woman carries her child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

After Oklahoma’s giant twister, does Tornado Alley need to change the way it builds and lives in the age of superstorms?

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May 21, 2013
Henry Ford sits at the tiller of his first automobile, the Quadricycle, in front of the John Wanamaker salesroom on Broadway between 49th and 50th Streets in New York City in 1904. (AP)

The controversial and brilliant Henry Ford and the world he invented.

 
May 21, 2013
Detail from the book jacket of "The Unwinding: An Inner History Of The New America" by George Packer. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

New Yorker writer George Packer’s inside history of the great unwinding of America’s 20th century way of life and where we stand now.

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WIRED’s Bill Wasik On The Next Henry Fords
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

He talked about how Google and Tesla are paving the way of innovation and how technological development is related not only to creativity but to environmental responsibility.

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Switching Shows For Our Second Hour Today
Friday, May 17, 2013

Adventures in live radio. Richard Snow, our guest for our show on Henry Ford, was held up — possibly by a faulty Model T? — so we’re running a terrific archive show on great quotations.

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Floyd Abrams On Obama Vs. Nixon
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Floyd Abrams — one of the country’s leading authorities on the First Amendment — joined us today to talk about revelations that the Justice Department seized two months of phone records from the Associated Press.

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