BARACK OBAMA RUMORS & GOSSIP

Obama honors first time WNBA champ Indiana Fever

President Barack Obama is honoring the WNBA champion Indiana Fever, calling the players an inspiration to young athletes - even those on his daughter Sasha's basketball team. Obama praised the team at a White House ceremony on Friday. The Fever captured its first-ever WNBA title last October, defeating the Minnesota Lynx 87-78. He called the players ''wonderful role...
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2 days ago  |  Discuss

Marathon victim throws out 1st pitch for White Sox

A victim of the Boston Marathon bombings has thrown out the first pitch at a Chicago White Sox game, thanks to an assist from the Oval Office. Karen Rand of Somerville, Mass., did the honors Saturday before the game against the Oakland Athletics, less than two months after she lost her left leg in the explosions. From a wheelchair about halfway between the mound and the plate she...
Via AP on Fox
8 days ago  |  Discuss

Matt Birk Says He Skipped Ravens’ Trip to White House Because of Speech by President Obama

The Ravens paid a visit to the White House on Wednesday to celebrate their Super Bowl title with President Barack Obama. But a few players didn’t make the trip. Linebacker Paul Kruger decided not to attend because of his commitment to his new team, the Cleveland Browns, who were holding a session of organized team activities on Wednesday. But, now retired, center Matt Birk was...
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10 days ago  |  Discuss

Obama gives congrats to Ravens

President Barack Obama Wednesday welcomed the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens to the White House, congratulating the team on its unlikely Super Bowl run - and offering some good-natured jibes along the way. At a South Lawn event, Obama praised the team not only for the goal line stand that sealed its second Super Bowl trophy but its charitable work in blue collar Baltimore...
Via AP on Fox
11 days ago  |  Discuss

Obama congratulates Super Bowl champion Ravens

President Barack Obama has welcomed the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens to the White House, congratulating the team on its unlikely Super Bowl run. Obama praised the team not only for the goal line stand that sealed its second Super Bowl trophy but its charitable work in blue-collar Baltimore. Quarterback Joe Flacco was singled out for being the most valuable player, safety...
Via AP on Fox
11 days ago  |  Discuss
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR

John Harbaugh talks big to Obama

Ravens head coach John Harbaugh issued something of a guarantee during the traditional meeting between the Super Bowl champs and the President.

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11 days ago  |  Discuss

President Obama’s 1979 Prom Photos Revealed

Tucked away in someone else’s shoe box of adolescent artifacts, there might be a picture of you in garish clothes and with an outdated ‘do, your arm around a high school squeeze. The President of the United States is no different. These previously unpublished photos, obtained exclusively by TIME from Obama’s schoolmate Kelli Allman (née McCormack), show a 17-year-old Barack...
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24 days ago  |  Discuss

President Obama’s Prom Photos Are Electric

TIME dug up some pretty amazing photos from President Obama’s prom, and they are just perfect.  Check out the leader of the free world just owning the photo of him and schoolmate Kelli Allman and a couple of other randoms.   A 17-year-old Barack Obama had heading off to prom with a couple gals draped on his arms, bottles ready to be popped behind him, white suit, and that hair…...
Via Next Impulse Sports Verified_ybn
24 days ago  |  Discuss
DIPLOMATIC AS I WANNA BE

Rodman rips Obama on North Korea

Dennis Rodman has been to North Korea. Barack Obama has not. And The Worm reminded the president of this in the only way that he possibly could: by talking to TMZ about it. 

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May 10, 2013  |  16 Comments
SHORT BUT SWEET

Obama responds to Newtown coach

With Obama in Newtown to address the community in wake of Friday's tragedy, a high school football coach left him a whiteboard message, to which the President responded.

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December 17, 2012  |  Discuss
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