nydailynews.com - 11/9/2008
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Barack Obama has proclaimed himself to be a lifelong White Sox fan and has gone as far to say that real baseball in Chicago is played on the South Side. Dare we say it? Can it be? The White Sox America's team?
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 11/16/2008
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NEW YORK (AP) -- It's not exactly at
the top of his agenda, but President-elect Barack Obama...
says there should be a college football playoff to determine a national champion. In fact, he knows exactly what he wants -- an eight-team playoff. In an ...
(more)
Barack Obama makes a play for college football playoff - ...
chicagotribune.com - 11/6/2008
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chicagotribune.com —
DANA POINT, Calif. - If President-elect Barack Obama
has nothing better to do April 6, here's an...
offer from White Sox general manager Ken Williams. "I'll make an executive decision right now," Williams said Wednesday. "Let this be a formal ...
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White Sox invite Barack Obama to throw first pitch on ...
sports.yahoo.com - 11/6/2008
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Bill Madden Afflicted With Obamamania, Goofiness - But Mostly Goofiness
wrigleyville23 —
Bill Madden of the New York Daily News makes perhaps the most egregious leap into inanity by a journalist in the afterglow - er, aftermath - of Barack Obama's election: ...
Barack Obama far from the first President to rock MLB headwear
Big League Stew —
... Since it's starting to look like Barack Obama might wear that White Sox cap every morning of his term, I thought a quick look at America's First Fans and their respective lids was in order. ...
The Presidential Commission on the Establishment of a College Football Playoff System
FRANK THE TANK'S SLANT —
... . However, his apparent passion for the creation of a college football playoff system, as shown in the above video clip from his interview this past week on 60 Minutes, is admirable. Indeed, as a fellow South Sider and White Sox fan, I would be more then willing to lead the Presidential Commission on the Establishment of a College Football Playoff System in the spirit of bipartisanship. I can tell Obama has given this issue a ton of thought judging by the “You can’t remember to pick up a carton a milk from the store within 5 minutes of asking you to do it, but ...
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