Sports Illustrated writer S.L. Price wrote a fantastic short piece about playing basketball against Barack Obama during a campaign stop in Iowa. It's a great story about life away from the cameras manages to show a candidate as three-dimensional. The first two graphs:
"Here's the beauty of pickup basketball: You may be a U.S. senator, a living symbol of racial healing and perhaps even the next President of the United States, but if you're gliding in for an easy layup and each point is precious, I've got no choice then, do I? You're getting hacked. So, yes, I'm hammering that arm and crashing headlong into your whippet-thin frame; and, yes, it's a foul so flagrant, so absurdly desperate, that all you can do, body buckling, is laugh. Hey, it's pickup. Everyone, even you, uses whatever he's got to win.
"Believe me," Barack Obama says, walking to the top of the key, "you can get shot for doing that."
Of course, I've included a link: [ One-on-one with Obama]
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