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Brian Mann of North Country Public Radio reports on ESPN's new television series, The Great Outdoor Games. With events such as log rolling and bass fishing, ESPN turns its cameras to contests in which top competitors endorse chainsaws and fly fishing reels rather than athletic shoes and clothing lines.

One of the issues most often mentioned by voters this election year is education. The presidential candidates Al Gore andGeorge W. Bush are responding. Both men have made schools and education reform a top priority on the campaign trail. But as NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports, what can the president of the United States really do to improve the nation's schools?

As the Bush administration considers war with Iraq, the Pentagon demands the nation's top law schools allow military recruiters on campus or risk losing government funding. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports.

In Colombia, a judge orders the release of Gilberto Rodriguez, imprisoned as one of the country's top drug lords. Investigators scramble to find evidence to bring fresh charges -- and possibly to support Rodriguez's extradition to the United States. Steven Dudley reports.

Commentator Stuart Chiefet (chef-AY) says that with so many people using lap-top computers these days, some entrepreneours could make a fortune by simply offering hackers caught in remote spots an electrical outlet where they can plug in their machines.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that the spat between Greece and Turkey over a disputed island in the Aegean Sea appears to be over. The U.S. intervened yesterday before the dispute exploded into war. President Clinton and top members of his Administration made phone calls to both Greek and Turkish leaders telling them of U.S. concern. The island is only 10-acres. The only inhabitants are goats.

Linda talks with senior citizens who live at the On Top Of The World retirement community in Clearwater, Florida. This is a community of mostly Republican seniors that has served as a stopover for political candidates. Florida has cast its votes for the Republican presidential candidate since 1976...but these seniors seem to have a lackluster support for presumptive Republican nominee Bob Dole.

Flying tourists over the Grand Canyon is big business. But the federal government now says it's too noisy, and has decided to restrict where, when and how often planes and helicopters can cruise over the West's top tourist attraction. NPR's Howard Berkes reports that neither environmentalists nor tour companies are happy with the compromise regulations.

NPR's Jack Speer reports President Bush is naming former Goldman Sachs investment banker Stephen Friedman as his top economics adviser. Friedman is being appointed to the White House job despite an aggressive campaign to torpedo his candidacy by some conservative Republicans.

In an effort to name the U.S. sports organization with the grandest tradition of losing, Commentator Frank Deford explains how the U.S. Olympic Committee continues to heap blunder on top of blunder, all the while hampering U.S. Olympic stature around the world.