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Having to shell out between $300 and $600 to enjoy satellite radio in my car was a daunting proposition last year when the two satellite radio networks made their debut. Since then, however, XM Satellite Radio has partnered with an electronics manufacturer to offer an alternative, Delphi's SKYFi XM Satellite Radio receiver ($130) and several accessories that make it usable in your home, car or anywhere you can catch a signal. You must buy each accessory to make this work. I tested the Delphi SKYFi Audio System ($100)

Tip No. 1 for a trip to Green Bank, W.Va.: Pack lots of CDs. If you hit the "scan" button on your car radio, all you will get is an endless display of numbers as the radio searches vainly for a station. There aren't any. There isn't much else out here in east-central West Virginia, either -- just an occasional farm, a logging truck or, scampering back into the Monongahela National Forest, a deer. The trip here, via routes 55 and 28, winds up into the clouds where snakes of mist curl around the road.

Zion Lutheran Church in York, Pa., will hold its second annual baseball talk at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 27 in the church's sanctuary, 2215 Brandywine Lane, York. This year's event features: Mel Antonen, baseball writer for SI.com and MASN and a Sirius/XM talk show host; Dan Connolly,  Orioles/national baseball writer for The Baltimore Sun; and Jim Seip, York Revolution beat writer for the York Daily Record/York Sunday News. The writers will present their thoughts on the upcoming baseball season - Orioles, Phillies, all MLB, plus the Revolution and the Atlantic League -- and will answer questions from the audience.

MONTEREY, Calif. - Does the jilted former host of National Public Radio's Morning Edition ever listen to the show anymore? What a silly question. "Every morning," Bob Edwards said in a recent telephone interview. "Where else am I going to get my news?" And there it was - the famous voice, as thick and smooth as a chocolate milkshake. After 25 years, NPR switched that voice off in spring 2004. Now Edwards' career is up in the air, you might say, but in a good way - on XM Satellite Radio.

Satellite radio kit puts the XM listener in the driver's seat The first time you hear XM Radio, it sells itself. If you're disgusted with radio talk shows that simply are reruns of the worst Pablum of the past decade or music that is so repetitive that it would serve as psychological torture, you're ready for satellite radio. So far, I've enjoyed XM Radio on a number of devices offered by third-party companies and have found the Terk XM Radio Commander ($160 for a tuner box, display device and antenna that requires a separate car radio)

Sofyan Alif fiddled with the buttons of a colorful car stereo at Circuit City recently, doing research for his next big purchase. The recent high school graduate wants a radio packed with features. He's flexible, with one exception: It must be ready to receive digital satellite radio. "About 75 percent of my friends have satellite sets," Alif said. "No matter what you want to listen to, you can find it. And there aren't any of those stupid commercials to interrupt the music." Satellite radio's audience is mushrooming.

Nation : Earnings Sealy profit declines 27% Sealy Corp. said third-quarter profit fell 27 percent. Net income declined to $21.5 million, or 22 cents a share, from $29.4 million, or 30 cents a share, a year earlier, the company said yesterday. Acquisitions Bain-3Com deal due security review Bain Capital Partners will submit for a national security review its planned $2.2 billion buyout of network equipment maker 3Com Corp. to address concerns about a Chinese telecommunications company's minority stake.

Donald Hill-Eley has always told his Morgan State football players that life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond. Now, after enduring as strange a few months as any college coach could fathom, Hill-Eley is striving to live by his own lesson. In late November, following the Bears' third straight losing season, Hill-Eley accidentally received an e-mail outlining the university's plan to seek his replacement. For almost six weeks after that, as rival coaches ramped up recruiting for 2013, he heard nothing official about his status.

On the Web: * CollegeHumor.com, a popular comedy Web site devoted to the (cough) collegiate mind, has done it again. A series of viral videos on the site features a prank war between site front page editor Streeter Seidell and senior writer Amir Blumenfeld. In the last installment (in 2007), prankster Amir gave Streeter Yankee tickets for him and his girlfriend. Amir arranged it so the JumboTron had Streeter unknowingly proposing to his girlfriend (which subsequently added to the end of their relationship)

"Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles was the first music video to air in the MTV cable television network's debut Aug. 1, 1981. Twenty-three years later, the radio star is alive and well. Evidence is the $500 million deal that shock jock Howard Stern cut with Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., to begin in 2006. Shortly after, Mel Karmazin, former president of Viacom Inc., joined Sirius as chief executive. Sirius, aiming to reach 1 million paid subscribers by year-end, lost $169.4 million in a recent quarter.