Sports fanatic and President Barack Obama met with ESPN's Andy Katz Tuesday to make his picks for the 2009 NCAA Tournament bracket. See how your picks compare.
(Image by Getty | Illustration by Zimbio.com)Sports fanatic and President Barack Obama met with ESPN's Andy Katz Tuesday to make his picks for this year's NCAA Tournament bracket official. (ESPN: Presidential pick 'em at the White House)The winner? University of North Carolina.Of course, Obama got burned by picking UNC to win last year, when coach Roy Williams was defeated in the semi-finals by his former team, the University of Kansas Jayhawks.If you've been stressing about picking your...Read Full Story
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Throughout March Madness, President Obama's bracket had been sitting pretty, ranked high atop ESPN's Bracket Challenge leader board. Unfortunately for the commander in chief, he only picked two teams into the Final Four and did not correctly guess the 2012 ...
The two contestants with the most points remaining are sixth-ranked Rajon Rondo, point guard for the Boston Celtics, who is riding alma mater Kentucky all the way to the championship, and the top female in the pool, soccer star Alex Morgan. If things shake ...
WASHINGTON - The United States has picked a public health expert of South Korean origin as its candidate for the World Bank presidency, a job emerging market economies are contesting for the first time. President Barack Obama will nominate Jim Yong Kim, president of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization.
Obama picks undefeated Baylor women for NCAA title Obama predicts Baylor's 6-foot-8 Brittney Griner will be the tournament star, saying she will probably block his shot if she visits the White House for a pickup game. Obama has third-seeded Delaware and standout Elena Delle Donne — of Vice President Joe Biden's home state — defeating second-seeded Tennessee in the Des Moines regional semifinals.
Sure, he may have called him a “jackass” in 2009, but that doesn’t mean Obama overlooks Yeezy’s aptitude. Still, if he had to pick between him and his Thronemate, the president says he’d have to go with Hov. —Stephanie Long Via Atlantic : “Kanye or Jay-Z?” The president smiles. “Jay-Z,” he says, as if the answer should be obvious. “Although I like Kanye,” Obama continues, with an easy smile. “He ...
As President Obama picks a nominee, what the new head of the World Bank might find on his or her agenda straight away Getting the world's poor back on the agenda Since the economic crisis, the World Bank's role has been overshadowed by the International Monetary Fund, which has stepped in to bail out a string of struggling western economies, while many countries have cut back their overseas aid ...
U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated Jim Yong Kim, a Korean-born public health specialist who is now the President of Dartmouth College, for the role of President of the World Bank. ...
All of these guys are great, with many of them almost assuredly headed to the NBA. But who's the best? Make your pick, and then see if everyone else agrees with you.