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Host Scott Simon catches up on the week's sports with NPR's Tom Goldman.

Head coach Larry Brown has been suspended for nine games. The Mustangs' men's golf team was also punished for violating NCAA recruiting protocol.

Americans of the past were fascinated by luxurious dining experiences — or at least by the tales of such extravagant exploits.

China's annual growth dipped to 6.9 percent. Not since China faced international sanctions over the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre has its economy grown at such a slow pace.

The secret networks who smuggle migrants into Europe are considered illegal. But a 24-year-old Afghan trafficker believes he's saving young people from unemployment, conflict and poverty.

Planet Money tries to find out how low oil prices will change Saudi Arabia economically and culturally.

A new analysis shows that outside groups supporting Ted Cruz have run nearly double the ads of pro-Jeb Bush behemoth Right To Rise USA. Here's how the other candidates stack up leading into Saturday.

One official predicted that anyone involved in opening a box containing radioactive cobalt-60 could be in grave danger of dying within days.

Just a few years ago, Miami's Wynwood was known as a rough neighborhood of warehouses and shoe factories. Today, it has become the center of Miami's art scene, known for its galleries, studios and street murals. Many attribute that transformation to the work of developer Tony Goldman.

Now that the U.S. and more than 100 other countries have recognized Syria's opposition coalition, the dynamics are changing for local councils in provinces under rebel control. These councils are going to get money and become humanitarian aid organization and now they have to figure out how to deliver 1,200 tons of bread a day for a population of 6 million people in Aleppo province. Melissa Block talks to Deborah Amos.