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The MIT's sports analytics conference named the San Antonio basketball team the "Best Analytics Organization."

U.S. health clubs are a more than $24 billion industry, but it's not the fitness trainers that are raking in the dough.

At the University of Dayton today, George Bush addressed one of the biggest crowds of his campaign, more than 3,000 people. He talked about education, social security, strengthening the military, and promoted his wife Laura's speech tonight to the Republican National Convention. After the rally, Bush rode with Mrs. Bush to the airport to see her off to Philadelphia. NPR's Don Gonyea is traveling with the campaign, Linda talked with him this afternoon.

Amid the blizzard of new ads coming on Super Bowl Sunday, Sony tries a new approach. The company will try to sell its electronics products with an ad featuring singer Alana Davis -- and urge viewers to download Davis's version of the Crosby, Stills classic "Carry On" from the Internet for 99 cents. NPR's Laura Sydell reports.

Laura Haydon reports that as Ireland has been transformed from an impoverished rural society to a booming information economy, the Irish are attending church less and sending fewer young men into the priesthood. This apparent decline in religious devotion is reflected in the falling numbers of pilgrims to Lough Derg, a remote outpost in northwest Ireland, where Saint Patrick is believed to have had a vision of heaven and hell. To draw worshippers back, the Church is now offering pilgrims the option of attending a one-day retreat, rather than the traditional arduous three days of fasting, walking barefoot and going without sleep.

Protesters are expected this weekend in Washington, D.C., California and overseas for what's being billed as a last-chance effort to stop a war with Iraq. Anti-war protesters say their views aren't being covered in the news. But supporters of military action say the media is biased against President Bush. NPR's Laura Sydell reports.

Netflix, the mail-order DVD rental service, has become a reliable part of many movie fans' lives. It delivers DVDs promptly from a large library and doesn't charge late fees. The resulting popularity is making life difficult for slumping rental chains like Blockbuster. But after the rise of Netflix stock, some think its price has been bid up too enthusiastically. NPR's Laura Sydell reports.

Laura Carlson reports from member station KJZZ in Phoenix on "karnal bunt," a rare fungus that has infected some wheat crops in Arizona. The karnal bunt fungus is not harmful to humans, but the United States Department of Agriculture is concerned that the presence of karnal bunt in Arizona wheat will have a negative effect on the otherwise strong reputation of American wheat throughout the world. In attempting to control the spread of karnal bunt, the USDA is testing wheat samples from the more than four-thousand wheat fields in Arizona and is requiring Arizona farmers to sanitize their wheat harvesting equipment.

We talk to some voters and non-voters to get their thoughts on the elections, and why they did or did not vote today: Laura McCallum visits folks at the Witney Senior Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota; Gretchen Lehman talks to customers at the Kay Kitchen, a cafe in St. Joseph, Minnesota; Keith McKeen interviews voters at polling stations in the second district in Maine; Andrea Deleon does the same in the first district in Maine; Josh Levs talks with people in downtown Atlanta; Steve Bussalachi talked with voters at the polls in Madison, Wisconsin, and with shoppers at the city's Southtown Mall.

Laura Sydell reports on a deal that's been struck between the famous Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the up-and-coming San Jose Museum of Art in California. The arrangement allows San Jose to rent high profile artworks from the Whitney. The result is that the San Jose Museum can entice more visitors with world-class exhibits, while the Whitney can simultaneously earn income and get some of its collection out of storage. The Whitney boasts the largest collection of American art in the world, ninety percent of which is in storage at any given time.