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Article: First coach: Michelle Obama's brother, Craig Robinson, once used a game of hoops to vet her boyfriend Barack. Now a head coach, he's using basketball to see whether a bunch of kids who went 6-25 last season have any, well, hope.
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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It's 5:55 A.M. in the Pacific Northwest. I'm watching an extremely well connected bald man yell at an extremely bad basketball team. The well connected man is a Princeton graduate; seven days from this morning, he will also be the brother-in-law of the president-elect of the United States of America. His bad basketball team is nicknamed the Beavers and went 0-18 in the Pac-10 last year; if they manage to go 9-9 this season, the president's bald brother-in-law will deserve to be named coach of the year. I'm watching him conduct practice from the upper deck of Gill Coliseum in Corvallis, Oregon, and I'm trying to figure out if I am supposed ...
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