Mar 10th, 2010 · An antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA seeks a potential payday for athletes who have been merchandised. The case over the use of players' likenesses in video games and memorabilia may change the essence of the NCAA. What if college players were no longer seen as amateurs?
Feb 13th, 2010 · The sun is emerging from a two-year period of quiet, and that's good news to amateur radio astronomers like Thomas Ashcraft. He records the sounds of solar flares and other cosmic phenomena from his home observatory in Santa Fe, N.M. Ashcraft tells Guy Raz about this "exciting time" for sun watchers and about his elaborate backyard recording studio.
Jan 15th, 2010 · Colton Harris-Moore has been on the run for 20 months and is being touted as a modern-day Jesse James. Police say the young outlaw is an amateur criminal — but a master escape artist. He's likely one of the only criminals with 16,000 members on his Facebook fan page.
Dec 30th, 2009 · In a preliminary report, the Dutch government says the foiled plan to blow up a jet headed from Amsterdam to Detroit was professional but its execution amateurish. Amsterdam's airport has 15 body scanners that will be upgraded within three weeks to address privacy concerns.
Dec 22nd, 2009 · Most of the time, Jeff Lunden reports for NPR from the outside looking in. But last month, his amateur chorus was invited to back up the great Ray Davies of The Kinks, in a couple of concerts in New York City. Lunden reports from his 15 minutes of rock fame.
Dec 10th, 2009 · Britain's senior military representative in Iraq said that "amateurs" were put into key roles in post-invasion Iraq, and lives had been lost as a result. Lt. Gen. Frederick Viggers said senior officials needed more training to deal with the complexities involved in mounting an invasion.
Dec 4th, 2009 · Did you hear the one about how Tiger Woods has a lot of expensive cars, but now he has a hole in one? Did you hear Tiger changed his name to cheetah? In this age of Twitter and time stamps, it's possible to trace the jokes around Wood's debacle down to their inception. And the early public domain jokes have something in common — they're puns.
Oct 11th, 2009 · Author Michael Chabon has seen manhood from just about every angle — as a boy obsessed with comic books, as a husband serving as a surrogate son to his father-in-law, and now as a dad trying to be honest with his kids about his early years smoking pot. The author, who won a Pulitzer for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, tells host Guy Raz about his amazing adventures in domesticity, chronicled in his new book of essays, Manhood for Amateurs: the Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son.