Entries Tagged as 'Basketball'

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Barack is Ballin’

A few weeks ago we mentioned exactly how spectacular it would be to see Senator Obama playing some hoops. We finally got our wish, as he plays in a 3-on-3 game against a few voter registration drive winners in Maple Crest Middle School, Indiana. In the spirit of the NBA playoffs, here’s the vid.

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Friday, April 11th, 2008

The Clinton Bag of Tricks: Tough On Crime

Democratic-presidential hopeful Hilliary Clinton announced an ambitious 4 billion dollar anti-crime program that will put 100,000 new police officers on streets across the nation.
She is trying to kick it up a couple notches with a program appropriately named COPS 2.0. We say appropriate because we remember when we were bright, kickball playin’, show-and-tellin’, addin’-and-subtractin’ whipper […]

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Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Which President got game?

There’s a fascinating article in The New York Times lampooning former presidents for their sporting pursuits. Jimmy Carter liked flying fishing and everyone else liked golf…
We’re still confident an Obama vs. (insert famous NBA player here) one-on-one game would skyrocket his cool-points percentage (a race we’re pretty sure he is already winning in the […]

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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The Basketball Analogy

Ho. Ho. Ho. Tis the time of year for basketball.
The other night, we got a chance to see the Phoenix Suns dominate the Philadelphia 76ers from row 8 in an exciting NBA game. Even though we are located on the East Coast, we’re still totally pulling for a Suns turnaround them in the Finals this […]

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