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Stanford's McLachlin takes Obama to hoop in pickup game

Original post made on Jan 20, 2009

Spencer McLachlin's most pressing question about Barack Obama was not whether the President-elect could stop the economic crisis, or get the soldiers out of Iraq, but whether he could block a jump shot. Spencer made big shots and big hits while winning high school state championships in basketball and volleyball, but he doesn't recall feeling more nervous than when he squared up on Obama.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, January 19, 2009, 2:26 PM

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Posted by Sylvia
a resident of Midtown
on Jan 20, 2009 at 10:52 am

What a great article! So nice to read on this wonderful Inauguration Day. These young men indeed have a memory to last a lifetime.


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