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Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon talks with New York Times columnist Joe Nocera about the increasing volume of criticism surrounding the NCAA and its governance of college sports. Nocera will be in Atlanta, covering the start of the Final Four tournament.

Ina Jaffe is a veteran NPR correspondent covering the aging of America. Her stories on Morning Edition and All Things Considered have focused on older adults' involvement in politics and elections, dating and divorce, work and retirement, fashion and sports, as well as issues affecting long term care and end of life choices. In 2015, she was named one of the nation's top "Influencers in Aging" by PBS publication Next Avenue, which wrote "Jaffe has reinvented reporting on aging."

For his new cookbook, the chef compiled soul-soothing, stomach-satisfying recipes from around the world. And this time, Oliver tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer, he worried less about calorie counts.

"A Bar Song (Tipsy)" added another week atop the chart, making it the longest-running No. 1 of the decade. In two more weeks, it could tie the all-time record, but a seasonal juggernaut approaches.

More than 700 businesses and organizations collectively spent $3.2 million to lobby the Kentucky General Assembly in February, bringing the two month total to more than $6 million in the 2024 legislative session.

Since its re-release earlier this month, Travis Scott's album Days Before Rodeo has been bouncing up and down the charts, finally landing at No. 1.

The Hall of Famer whose folksy drawl belied a fiery on-court demeanor was the first coach to win more than 100 games at four NCAA Division I schools.

Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem continues to dominate the charts, while long-ago chart queen Connie Francis is gathering momentum for a song from 1962.

Charitable giving to the nation's colleges and universities reached $30.30 billion in 2011, an 8.2 percent increase over the previous year, a new survey says. The 20 institutions that raised the most received $8.24 billion. Stanford, Harvard and Yale topped the list.

It was a three-way, down-to-the-wire race between A$AP Rocky, ENHYPEN and Bad Bunny to be No. 1 on this week's Billboard 200 albums chart.