Sports Illustrated listed President Obama as #44 in its list of Top 50 Most Powerful People in Sports.
Makes sense. Where would Cominsky Field be without him?
Sports Illustrated listed President Obama as #44 in its list of Top 50 Most Powerful People in Sports.
Makes sense. Where would Cominsky Field be without him?
Absolutely. His Heisman Trophy is just as much deserved as his Nobel Peace Prize.
Because it takes a real man to throw like a girl?
That’s so cute of SI, see, because Obama is PRESIDENT number Forty-four!
They are sooooooooooo witty there at Sports Illustrated.
That’s what keeps the subscribers hanging on between swimsuit issues.
“Makes sense. Where would Cominsky Field be without him?”
…or his beloved Chicago Black Sox?
@4 – I thought his team was the Mulatto Sox…
@5 – or the Ma’ Latte Sox
Maybe he just thought his beloved team was the “White Sux”
@5 – or the Ma’ Latte Sox
Maybe he just thought his team was the “White Sux”
@5 – or the Ma’ Latte Sox
Maybe he just thought his Chicago team was the “White Sux”
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Astounding. Without actually governing he wins a Nobel Prize, with out playing a sport he’s on a list of the most powerful people in sports. What’s next an Oscar for a film he was never in, an Emmy for his State of the Union speech (that might actually work because his performance as a president in a comedy or musical was powerful apparently-I didn’t watch. I wasn’t up for either Kaboki Theater or farce), or a Tony (for attending a play with his wife on a date that cost the taxpayers around $250,000 according to some estimates)? I know next will be Publishers Clearing House, a Purple Heart and the Presidents Medal of Freedom (of course the last one he can give himself so one wonders why this hasn’t happened years before). Maybe before he leaves office he can take over heaven and replace God because after this life he may be replacing someone else, somewhere else- he should strike while the irons hot, as they say.
King of Sports….such as…little girl’s bicycle riding.
Going down hill is scary…just ask SI.
THIS JUST IN: Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama has been named the first semi-male winner of the Miss America contest. “We felt that we were going to be viewed as ‘out of the loop,’ so we knew we had to act right away,” stated an excited Lem Ming, president of the Miss America organization. “Every other organization has already awarded Dear Leader with their highest honors, and we realized that we must as well, and as soon as possible, or risk a possible backlash from Democrats in position of political power.” The newly-crowned Miss America hales from Illinois, Hawaii and Kenya, and representatives from the pageant added that his/her background would add a much-desired “international” flavor to a program that has to-date appeared to be biased in favor of Americans. “I must thank myself, and I know I am going to be the best Miss America there’s ever been,” stated Miss Obama. His/her wife Michelle stated that she/he also felt proud of her husband, and “for the first time in her adult life” was proud of the Miss America pageant.
Communisky Fields holds a special place in Obama’s heart.
It’s where he caught his first foul-tip pass and ran it back for a perfect three-pointer from outside.
In the off-season, it was where a young Barry, dreaming of someday being a star American cricket player, would go with his dad to practice kicking homeruns and pitching slamdunks using a beat up horsehide hockey puck and a well-worn “Pistol Pete” Maravich left-handed first-baseman’s glove.
Occasionally the groundskeepers would cheer li’l Barry as he slammed his puck through the hoop at homebase.
Li’l Barry’s favorite sports saying was Three strikes means you don’t have enough union reps negotiating for the worker against corporations!
Barry’s dad, and whoever was around protesting against The Man, would laugh when Li’l Barry would say that.
Still Barry dreamed of throwing out the first pitch during a World Series Test Match against cricket batsmen like Joe Namath or Reggie Jackson, who he admired for marching against Selma in the 70s with Doctor Marvin Loofah Junior when he wasn’t hitting googleys with the New Jersey Yankee club.
When the Sportsman’s Club awarded him the Joe Theisman Trophy, he blushed deeply, hearkening back to his boyhood dreams growing up on the mean streets of the Chicago ghetto of Honolulu.
It’s nice to know Hedge Fund Guy beat out Obama but sad to see Obama beat out Michael Jordan.