Oct 5th, 2004 · Major League Baseball division playoffs begin Tuesday night. The defending champion Florida Marlins have already been eliminated from competition. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to commentator John Feinstein about what teams are in and who has the best shot at winning the World Series.
Oct 1st, 2004 · NPR's Robert Siegel talks with our regular sports commentator Stefan Fatsis of The Wall Street Journal about Major League baseball. They discuss the economic fallout of sending the Montreal Expos to Washington, DC, and the key remaining match-ups that will decide the league playoffs.
Sep 27th, 2004 · George Johnson talks about the NFL, WNBA playoffs, baseball pennant races and other sports headlines.
Aug 16th, 2004 · Vijay Singh captures the 86th PGA Championship, defeating Justin Leonard and Chris DiMarco in a three-way, three-hole playoff Sunday to claim victory in golf's final major of the season. It's Singh's third major title. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and commentator John Feinstein.
Jul 19th, 2004 · Todd Hamilton, a regular on the Japanese golf circuit, out-putts Ernie Els in a four-hole playoff to win the 2004 British Open Championship. It's the second year in a row a relatively unknown American player has won the Claret Jug. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and sports commentator John Feinstein.
Jun 12th, 2004 · Before the NBA championship series began, NPR's Scott Simon and Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Ron Rapoport lamented that it would very likely be boring to watch the Los Angeles Lakers march to victory over the Detroit Pistons. Having watched a week's worth of great basketball from the Pistons, who lead the series 2-1, the prognosticators change their thinking.
Jun 11th, 2004 · NPR's Michele Norris talks with Bill Plaschke, sports columnist for The Los Angeles Times, about the National Basketball Association playoffs. The underdog Detroit Pistons surprised the Los Angeles Lakers Thursday night to take a 2-to-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. Plaschke is not surprised that the favored Lakers are in a hole -- the sports truism that the best team wins is holding, he says, and the Pistons are playing like a team while the Lakers are not.
Jun 9th, 2004 · NPR's Alex Chadwick speaks with Sal Masekela of ESPN about Tuesday night's basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Detroit Pistons in the NBA finals. The Lakers won in a nail-biting overtime battle, and the best-of-seven series is tied 1-1.