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With the Sydney Olympic games less than two weeks away, NPR's Alex Chadwick takes us on a National Geographic Radio Expedition to find out how Australia's landscape sets it apart from the rest of the world.

NPR's Jack Speer reports that the United State Olympic Committee has filed a lawsuit to stop Nabisco from promoting its Fig Newtons as a foodstuff for Olympians. Nabisco is not an official Olympic sponsor, and the USOC says its ad is unfair to the companies who've paid for the Olympic logo.

As the Australians prepare to host the Olympics, they're also grappling with a new identity - as members of the Asian community. From Sydney, Eric Weiner reports.

Frank talks with former Atlanta Falcons defensive lineman Tim Green about the upcoming National Football League season, which begins today. Tim provides insight into the state of last year's Super Bowl champions, the St. Louis Rams; the big money free agent signings by the Washington Redskins; and other teams in the playoff hunt this year.

In 1897, the U.S. Army launched an experiment to test if the safety bicycle, then a revolutionary vehicle, could be used to transport troops instead of the horse. The 25th Infantry, composed of 20 African American soldiers, took the 2,000-mile ride from Missoula, Montana to St. Louis, Missouri. Their journey is documented on a new film called The Bicycle Corps: America's Black Army on Wheels, produced by Montana Public Television. It airs on public television stations this week. Frank talks to Gus Chambers, the film's writer and producer.

Country singer Ray Price knew Hank Williams and Elvis Presley. He invented a unique 2-step beat. And he's been performing classic songs since the 1950's. Frank talks to the legendary crooner about his hit song Crazy Arms, and his latest CD Prisoner of Love. (Buddha/Justice Records 74465-99705-2)

Past racial and ethnic tensions are heating up the congressional campaign in New York's 17th District. Congressman Eliot Engel who is Jewish, is seeking a seventh term challenged by State Senator Larry Seabrook, an African-American. Andrea Bernstein reports from member station WNYC.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports the beatification of Pope Pius IX and Pope John XXIII happened at the Vatican among controversy and some allegations of anti-Semitism.

NPR's Michelle Kelemen reports from Moscow on a shake-up at the famed Bolshoi Ballet. An agency of the United Nations is helping to renovate the troupe's theatre, but the government is hoping to speed up the work. Last week, the Bolshoi's artistic and general director was sacked and the troupe was put under control of the Ministry of Culture.

Back to School means the start of High School Football, but the rules are different since the Supreme Court stated that schools can no longer support pre-game prayer. In Santa Fe, Texas, scene of last year's student-led prayers, Adam Hochberg reports how some fans are challenging the Court's opinion.

Los Angeles film critic Kenneth Turan reviews the German movie Aimee and Jaguar. It's based on a bestseller that tells the true love story of two women during the Second World War. One woman, a Jewish poet, masquerades as an Aryan to work at a Nazi paper and passes information to the underground. Her lover is a conventional German wife, whose philandering husband is fighting on the front. Turan says the movie captures the complexity of the characters and the terror of the times.

NPR's David Molpus reports on the increasing number of minorities, immigrants, and women who are signing up with unions. This demographic change is causing labor to re-think its strategies, and to figure out new ways to appeal to workers in the changing economy.