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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Heather Tanana of the University of Utah to learn how a Supreme Court case could change the Navajo Nation's ability to draw water from the Colorado River Basin.

It's time for college football, and this year it's going to be quite different. Colleges have switched conferences and the playoffs are expanding from four teams to 12.

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss the new era of college sports and the latest running of a very old auto race.

As baseball celebrates its midseason All-Star break, NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Jeff Campbell, the producer of a series of baseball music CDs, called Diamond Cuts. The latest album features songs about Mickey Mantle, Dizzy Dean and Shoeless Joe Jackson. Hear selections from Top of the Sixth.

Friendship often takes a back seat to romance, but does it have to? Journalist Rhaina Cohen shares stories of people who have made friendship their top priority—and how you can too.

This week saw the "Chairman of the Board" Frank Sinatra make a return to the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in 56 years. His 1948 rendition of Jingle Bells jingled all the way to a Top 20 spot.

The award-winning chef, restaurateur, and head judge and executive producer of the Bravo show "Top Chef," talks about his philosophy toward food, how food TV has gotten more people interested in cooking, and why the current economic factors are making it challenging to own a restaurant.

A new category of listings is called "Icons." Homes include the house from the Pixar movie Up — complete with 8,000 balloons attached to the top. It's held up by a crane over the N.M. desert.

European explorers spent centuries searching for a passage through the ice at the top of the world. The Northwest Passage, a shortcut to Asia Europe, proved elusive until about 100 years ago. These days, thanks to global warming and a receding ice cover, the voyage is far easier to complete.

It topped the 80,000-acre Madre Fire on Tuesday with no containment in sight.