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Liane talks with Fox Sports football analyst Tim Green on the final weekend of the NFL regular season. Many teams are still fighting for playoff spots, while some other highly-touted squads, including the talent-laden Washington Redskins, will not see postseason action at all.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Claire Halpern from Clayton, Missouri. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station KWMU in St. Louis, Missouri.)

There is an electricity shortage in California. Two of the largest private utility companies in the state were granted emergency rate increases to avoid bankruptcy. But Los Angeles and about 30 other cities are not effected. That's because they are served by municipal power utilities. NPR's Andy Bowers reports.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reads a Southwest version of A Visit From St. Nicholas.

When subway workers started digging underneath Los Angeles, they discovered fossils from the city's pre-historic past. Lisa speaks with the L.A. Transit Authority's paleontologist, Bruce Lander.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on the recent announcements of appointees by President-elect George W. Bush. Bush named New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman for the appointment of administrator to the Environmental Protection Agency and former Missouri Senator John Ashcroft for the appointment to Attorney General of the United States.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Florida Gov. Jeb Bush; President-elect George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton meeting at the White House; Sen. Joe Lieberman; George W. Bush announcing his appointments for Attorney General and Secretaries of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and Commerce; New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman, appointee for Environmental Protection Agency; Paul O'Neill, appointee for Treasury.

NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr provides his annual holiday assessment of the state of peace, and its unfortunate counterpart, war, around the world.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition Saturday's sports commentator Ron Rapoport about the last weekend of the National Football League regular season before the playoffs.

Last night a Los Angeles judge overturned the convictions of three LAPD officers involved in the corruption scandal in which police were found to brutalize and falsely arrest innocent citizens of crimes they didn't commit. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.

Singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell recalls his childhood memory of hearing the song I Walk the Line by Johnny Cash in the backseat of a car. Crowell's story is called I Walk the Line-Revisted, and is set to be published in a collection next year.

NPR's Ted Clark reports on collapse of peace negotiations between Israel and Palestinian officials who met earlier today with President Clinton at the White House here in Washington.