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Critic Tom Shales reviews the movie opening today, The Replacements. The film, about a zany group of misfits who become professional football players during a strike season stars Gene Hackman and Keanu Reeves.

The 11th World Conference on Tobacco or Health wraps up in Chicago today with delegates -- all of them anti-smoking antivists -- going home to focus on how they can work towards the same goal. Tobacco-related diseases kill more than four-million people worldwide annually. Many public health officials believe smoking rates would fall if federal regulators had more control over tobacco products. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports.

Gay civil rights activist Candace Gingrich talks about Mary Cheney -- the openly gay daughter of Republican Vice Presidential candidate Dick Cheney. Ms. Gingrich says that Mary is now in a difficult position because her father supports a GOP platform that is hostile to homosexuals. Candace also talks about her experience having a brother -- former House Speaker Newt Gingrich -- who is opposed to equal rights for homosexuals.

Sister Isolina Ferre died this week at the age of 85. She cared for the poor from Brooklyn, Appalachia, to her native Puerto Rico. Scott remembers her.

500 lifesize fiberglass bovines are roaming the streets of New York. Tourists love them, but cynics say rats or pigeons would be more appropriate. NPR's Margot Adler reports.

The city of Santa Monica was one of the first communities in the nation to discover that its underground water source was contaminated by the gasoline additive MTBE. Now they are suing seven major oil companies for the money to pay for the cleanup. Nova Safo reports from Santa Monica.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Warsaw that a special tribunal today cleared former Polish president Lech Walesa of charges he collaborated with the communist-era secret police. The court ruled that in the early eighties, the Interior Ministry faked documents, casting Walesa as an informant, to undermine his chances of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Thursday, the court also cleared the current president Alexander Kwasniewski, of similar charges of collaboration.

Game Misconduct - A new opera about...hockey. This opera was written by Canadians. There's the high drama of a country defending its' national pride against marauding invaders (that would be the American hockey team); the tragedy of defeat; the exultation of the fans; and the loss of a way of life. The music was composed by Leslie Uyeda; the libretto written by Tom Cone. Game Misconduct premieres tonight as part of Festival Vancouver - a three-week music festival. Performances of the opera continue through next week. Marcie Sillman, of member station KUOW, reports.

Microsoft users will be able to access their accounts using an app or a code sent to their phone or email. Company officials say it will make logging on both easier and safer.

Scott speaks with reporter Alice Furlaud who remembers the 1960 Democratic National Convention. Alice was there, but missed, it seems, the most important events.