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Obama Will Lose Games Staying Home

Sep 17, 2009 – 9:00 PM
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Jay Mariotti

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CHICAGO -- He has voiced so many opinions about sports, I've urged ESPN to give him a talk show an on-air nickname: Barack The Rock. A week doesn't pass, it seems, without another sports team dropping by his house, as if he's operating a fantasy camp on the South Lawn. He is the sporting president, this Barack Obama, and for all the frivolity involved so far, I assumed the one serious matter he'd embrace would be pushing through Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics.
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