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Jose Rodriguez first participated in the New Jersey Special Olympics back in 2003, when he was 13. Jose has trouble learning — mostly with reading and writing. At StoryCorps, Jose tells his former coach, Charles Zelinsky, what his life was like before he found the games.

Russia said recently it's not wedded to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad but that it wants to see Syrians come up with their own solution to the crisis there. Russia has been against foreign intervention in Syria from the beginning. David Greene talks to George Mason University's Mark Katz about whether Russia could be poised to change its position on Syria.

Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep is continuing a road trip through nations of the Arab Spring. As he prepared to travel from Tunisia into Libya, he spoke with a journalist who's covered Libya for years. Lindsey Hilsum is the author of Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution.

Renee Montagne talks to Harold Goldberg about E3, this week's video game expo in Los Angeles. Goldberg writes about the video game industry, and is the author of All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture.

In the 2008 financial crash, a lot was written in newspapers and even books — but there wasn't much fiction out there to help those who like to view life through an imaginative lens. Now author John Lanchester's Capital can fill that void. It describes the crash as seen from London, and Lizzie Skurnick calls it "brilliant."

High school students graduating in Prince Georges County, Md., got a surprise on their diplomas: a typo. The diplomas celebrated that each of the 8,000 students had completed an "approved "progam" of study." The Washington Post reports that the school system has ordered new diplomas and apologized.

One day after seeing its sovereign debt downgraded to just above junk status, Spain is dealing with reports that it's about to ask the other eurozone nations to help rescue its beleaguered banks.

Who's from North Dakota, hates turtlenecks, but loves the color orange? It's our V.I.P., a renowned rock critic and pop culture junkie. He tackles a trivia game about a little band known as KISS.

Top stories today include the possibility of a bailout of troubled Spanish banks; U.N. monitors get close to the site of a reported massacre in Syria - they'd previously been blocked by Syrian troops.

In this morning's roundup: Lev Grossman talks about walking while reading, Jimmy Fallon disses e-readers, and CBS is still upset that it may soon not have the only silly voyeuristic show of its kind.