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Weekend Edition sports commentator Tim Green talks with Frank about some recent examples of the decline of sportsmanship in athletics, including taunting incidents at the Olympics and in the National Football League.

Popular culture commentator Steven Stark prepares for this election's first presidential debate on Tuesday by offering his rules on how to score the candidates.

Commentator Doug Brinkley celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Wolfe. The author of Look Homeward, Angel and You Can't Go Home Again was once considered on a par with Fitzgerald and Hemingway; today he's less well known then Tom Wolfe, the author of The Bonfire of Vanities and The Right Stuff.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the fourth day of spreading violence through Israel and the West Bank.

Frank Stasio speaks with Owen Ullman, Washington Editor of USA Today, about the economic news of this past week, which was quite good. President Clinton announced a 230 billion dollar budget surplus, and a new study shows American household incomes at an all-time high.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Monica Pereira from Athens, Georgia. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WUGA in Athens, Georgia.)

Frank speaks with author John Keane about his book Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts. (Basic Books). Vaclav Havel is President of the Czech Republic. Keane asserts that Havel's life has been shaped and determined by major political shifts of the 20th century: World War II, the rise and fall of Communism, the Prague Spring and the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe.

Frank talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem, who's monitoring violence between Palestinians and Israelis. Clashes over the last four days have left 18 Palestinians dead and hundreds wounded in the deadliest encounter between the two sides in several years.

Jacki talks with the cameraman who shot footage of a Palestinian father and son caught in crossfire on Saturday. A 12-year-old Palestinian boy Mohammed Ramal Aldura was killed . Jacki talks with Talal Abu Rameh, a journalist and cameraman for France Two Television.

We remember Carl Sigman, who died this past Tuesday at the age of 91. The versatile lyricist wrote: It's All In The Game, Enjoy Yourself, Ebb Tide, Pennsylvania 6-5000, and dozens of others.