Opinion: Barack Obama gets in some exercise
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Roy Williams, for years one of the most successful coaches in college basketball, has taken a shot at political prognostication.
“You’ve got the future president of the United States wide open,” he shouted at one point to present and past University of North Carolina basketball players who were part of a pickup game Tuesday that included Barack Obama (and who apparently weren’t as willing as they should have been to pass to him).
The coaching tip from Williams, who won the national championship at UNC a few years back and led the Tar Heels to the Final Four earlier this spring, earned him ‘quote of the day’ honors from ABC’s daily political note (no small achievement, given the plethora of sound bites Obama provided later at his news conference denouncing the Rev. Jeremiah Wright).
If ever a politician needed to work off some nervous energy with a game of hoops, we imagine it was Obama as he grappled ...
with the Wright controversy. Still, in the modern world it seems even a little bit of recreation is no simple matter.
The Raleigh News & Observer reports that ‘an NCAA rule appears to have been broken’ by Williams’ presence at game.
The good news? According to the paper’s story, ‘the NCAA is apparently going to ignore it.’
-- Don Frederick