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Line shots: Craig Robinson on Obama’s hoops style

By Mike James
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Line shots: Oregon State Coach Craig Robinson, asked at Pac-10 basketball media day to describe his brother-in-law Barack Obama as a basketball player:

‘He is left-handed, he’s a true lefty, he is a left-handed left-hander so he’s going left and if you stop him from going left he’ll stop it and shoot it.’

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For a look at Obama on the court, here’s a video of Obama’s style. And The Times’ Diane Pucin has a report on the preseason poll released at Pac-10 media day posted on latimes.com/sports now.

-- Mike James

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Mike James

Mike James is a former Sports editor of the Los Angeles Times. A native of suburban Washington, D.C., James came to The Times from the Hartford Courant in 1985, took a hiatus from the print world in 2000 to work as coordinating producer at FoxSports.com and managing editor of the nightly news report on Fox Sports Net. He returned to The Times in 2002 and, after three years as deputy Sports editor, became Sports editor in 2009.

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