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The San Francisco Giants' most popular team members aren't seeing much action this summer. When the team inaugurated a new ballpark, it also introduced a group of canine helpers, trained to retrieve home-runs hit into nearby San Francisco Bay. So far, the dogs are still waiting to make a splash. Scott Shaefer reports from member station KQED.

Mark Roberts reports on questions about the safety of the nation's pipeline system in the wake of last week's explosion in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Eleven campers were killed when a natural gas pipeline ruptured near their campsite.

For more than thirty years photographer Mark PoKempner has been taking pictures of Chicago's legendary blues clubs. His new book Down at Theresa's: Chicago Blues is a visual artist's tribute to one city's musical legacy. Host Jacki Lyden tours some of Mark's favorite South Side clubs. (16:00) (Down at Theresa's - Chicago Blues: the Photographs of Mark PoKempner, by Wolfgang Schorlau; ISBN: 3791323008 (2000) For more information, check out our feature on "Down at Theresa".

Scott talks with Ed Hula, editor of the independent electronic newsletter Around the Rings, about the problems Athens, Greece is having as it prepares to host the 2004 Olympic Games.

Microsoft Bill Gates made it to the finals of the American Contract Bridge League Summer Nationals, but he lost. Scott speaks with Paul Linxweiler, managing editor of the League's bridge bulletin.

Weiner: NPR's Eric Weiner reports Aborigines are expected to protest the upcoming Olympics in Sydney. Using the Olympic competition as a backdrop, they hope to publicize their civil rights movement.

Michael Kinsley, editor of the on-line magazine Slate, reviews the week's news.

Host Jacki Lyden talks to travel writer Chris Elliott about airlines' efforts to crack down on fliers who buy tickets for "hidden cities." Some travelers are finding it cheaper to buy tickets for longer flights, and then get off in a connecting city, or to pay a lower round-trip fare for a one-way flight. Airlines say that's costing them money.

On the 37th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington, Nancy Marshall reports on today's "Redeem the Dream" march in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators are demanding an end to racial profiling and police brutality.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports that Russian president Vladimir Putin finally flew to the Northern Fleet's base near Murmansk -- ten days after the submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea. With the rescue attempt called off, talk has now turned to bringing up the bodies of the 118 men on board.