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WATCH: Michelle Obama Makes Shocking Confession

Posted 04.27.2012

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First Lady Michelle Obama, Chicago Cubs fan? Yes, it's true! On Thursday, Michelle came clean about one area where she and Barack do not see eye to...

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Obama Watches Sox Play Against Nationals In D.C.

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama ventured from the White House for some Friday night baseball as his hometown Chicago White Sox took on the W...

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Obama, Baseball & Hilary Rhoda: President Goes To Nationals Game, Supermodel Throws First Pitch (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama--along with Sasha and Malia--took in a baseball game on Friday night: Washington Nationals vs. Chicago White Sox. Clearly, the first fami...

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Cubs Manager Piniella Meets White Sox Fan Obama: 'He Has Done A Really Nice Job For Our Country'

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lou Piniella was touring the White House with his wife and grandchildren Thursday when he got a five-minute meeting with President Barack Obama. ...

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Barack And Balls: A Slideshow Of Sporty Obama (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama threw the opening pitch at Tuesday's Major League Baseball All-Star game, but this wasn't his first trip to the pitcher's mound -- nor...

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Obama, Willie Mays Discuss How Baseball Legend Paved The Way For The President (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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On his flight to the MLB All-Star game in St. Louis on Tuesday, President Obama was joined by legendary ballplayer Willie Mays Watch their conversat...

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Obama Throws Out First Pitch At 2009 All-Star Game UPDATED VIDEO

Posted 05.25.2011

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***UPDATED*** FROM AP: Baseball legend Willie Mays says he was so proud the night Barack Obama was elected president that he "cried for most of the ni...

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Sotomayor's Baseball Ruling: Conservatives Go To Bat

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was destined to come to this. The initial salvos in the Supreme Court confirmation battle for Sonia Sotomayor are being played out on fairly tradi...

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White Sox Invite Obama To Spring Training While President Is In Phoenix

Chicago Sun-Times | Joe Cowley | Posted 05.25.2011

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GLENDALE, Ariz. - The invitation is out there and now the White Sox are waiting for a reply. President Obama will be in the Phoenix area this week, a...

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White Sox Invite Obama To Throw Out First Pitch

Chicago Tribune | Dave van Dyck | Posted 05.25.2011

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The White Sox have formally invited President Obama to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before their season opener April 6 at U.S. Cellular Field....

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White Sox Design Obama Hat

Sports Business Journal | Eric Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Chicago White Sox are aiming to release a President Barack Obama-themed version of their cap in time for the start of spring training. The club h...

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Obama Press Conference Media Divided Into Cubs And White Sox Sections (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE 11/25 2:30 P.M. A reporter who is a lifelong White Sox fan received an apology from President-elect Obama Tuesday after being put in the Cubs...

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World Series Fashion Trends and Their Presidential Parallels

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Both World Series teams happen to be from two important swing states, Florida and Pennsylvania. Kinda puts a new spin on the idea of a state being "in play," doesn't it?

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The Audacity of Nope

Brad Spirrison | Posted 05.25.2011

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It got late early and the Cubs just gave us more of the same. In what was thought to be a change postseason for Major League Baseball, the North Side nihilists ended up giving hope the finger. The curse will not be reversed.

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Ozzie Endorses Obama, Sort Of

Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama earned the backing of White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen Friday. "He has to be our president," Guillen told the Chicago Tribune's Sox beat ...

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Obama to White Sox Fans - You're Ugly!

Brad Spirrison | Posted 05.25.2011

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We can live with a pseudo terrorist weatherman and narcissistic men of the cloth, but Obama's suicide squeeze into political Ozzieball makes some of us root for an 11th Hour brokered convention. At least Hillary was a Cubs fan for most of her life.

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Sox Fan Obama Knocks Cubs

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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We all knew Barack Obama is a White Sox fan, but the presumed Democratic presidential nominee took it a bit further in an interview with ESPN. Obama ...

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The Big Question This Fall

Brad Spirrison | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you can only choose one thing to happen this fall - Barack Obama being elected president or the Cubbies overcoming their 100-year curse - what would it be?

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Where The Batter's Box Meets The Ballot Box

McClatchy | Posted 05.25.2011

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For tens of millions of normal Americans, the start of the baseball playoffs in the crisp autumn air is a joyous time to cheer for their favorite tea...

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