Obama: Best Basketball-Playing Cabinet In US History
CHICAGO -- Experience? Check. Academic credentials? Check. Can hit a fadeaway and drive the lane? Check. As President-elect Barack Obama joked here T...
CHICAGO -- Experience? Check. Academic credentials? Check. Can hit a fadeaway and drive the lane? Check. As President-elect Barack Obama joked here T...
Washington City Paper | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics
Portis/Zorn isn't the only rivalry to heat up around here lately: For Sidwell Friends/Maret, it's on. On Saturday, Maret's basketball boys were leadi...
New York Times | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
Besides their impressive resumes and political star-power, a few of President-elect Barack Obama's top cabinet choices have something else in common -...
New York Times | PETER BAKER | Posted 12.14.2008 | Home
CHICAGO -- A couple of weeks ago, Barack Obama headed to the Hyde Park Hair Salon for a trim. He greeted the staff and other customers and plopped dow...
Posted 12.07.2008 | Chicago
Barack Obama's favorite campaign stress reliever, basketball, was a source of tension between the candidate and his friend and frequent playing partn...
Posted 12.05.2008 | Chicago
Senator Barack Obama continued his election day ritual Tuesday with a two-hour basketball game on Chicago's West Side. Among the players in Obama's g...
Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics
The Wall Street Journal's Amy Chozick warns Barack Obama of another potentially elitist personal trait -- he's too thin: Speaking to donors at a San...
Trey Ellis | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
And whatever it was he was ripped off. Not since the NAACP convention has McCain made a single non-vituperative comment about Obama.
AP | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
CHICAGO — Barack Obama, back in his home town after a tour of Afghanistan, the Middle East and Europe, saw a doctor at the University of Chicago...
John Tomasic | Posted 07.29.2008 | Home
The list includes Obama in Kuwait (the audio is as off as his jumper is on!), an answer to Michelle Obama's expression of national pride and MoveOn's mockery McCain's psychological economics.
AP | JAYMES SONG | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
HONOLULU — Confined to the bench back in his high school basketball days, Barack Obama felt the fierce urgency of now. The scrappy "Obomber," n...
Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
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Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Tuesday continued his election day tradition of playing basketball--only to get battered after accidently getting knocke...
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
In Indiana, if Obama grabs the ball and takes it to the hoop, he'll win the nomination and put himself on track to win the presidency. If he doesn't, he better watch out for flying chairs.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 04.03.2008 | Home
Hillary is going to give it everything she's got, but an Obama spring is in the air. You could feel it on the bus tour.
Chip Collis | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home
Consider Hillary's half-court strategy. Drawn up on the DLC-chalkboard, it consists of anchoring the major blue states, conceding the basic red states, and fighting over the swing states.
usatoday.com | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics