Tag: Barack Obama

Eagles owner, Saquon Barkley spent off day playing golf with former President Obama

Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie, Saquon Barkley and Jalen Hurts played a round off golf with President Barack Obama

The Eagles are feeling good again after winning three straight games. As the team prepares for a Week 9 matchup against the Jaguars on Sunday, Philadelphia’s owner and two superstars spent time with a former President.

According to John Clark of NBC Sports Philadelphia, Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie, star quarterback Jalen Hurts, and star running back Saquon Barkley played a round of golf with Barack Obama at a local course.

Obama and legendary singer Bruce Springsteen appeared in Philadelphia at a “When We Vote We Win” concert as Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned in Michigan.

Barkley took up golf this off-season, while Hurts slowly intricated himself into the game despite Lurie jokingly telling his quarterback to avoid playing the sport in hopes of preventing injury.

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Barack Obama realized he hilariously reenacted the Key & Peele handshake sketch with Team USA

Obama did not realize it at first but now finds it hilarious.

Earlier this year, President Barack Obama met with Team USA basketball and had a hilarious interaction with the players and coaching staff.

Obama had a familiarity with several players and coaches including Stephen Curry, LeBron James, Erik Spoelstra, and Steve Kerr. That much was quite obvious when he greeted each of them for a handshake.

But the former POTUS was not as familiar with Team USA assistant coach Mark Few, who is also the head coach of Gonzaga Men’s Basketball. During a recent interview with Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton, who was on Team USA this summer, Obama said he had never met Few.

So when it came time to shake his hand, he wasn’t sure what greeting to go with. In the conversation, he admitted that it ended up looking a lot like an iconic sketch from Key & Peele at a meet and greet:

“I gotta say, that was funny. But here’s what happened. Here’s what happened. So I’m going down the row, right? A lot of those guys, I knew. And then right before I got to Coach Few, it’s Steph, it’s LeBron. I’ve been knowing those guys forever. I had dinner with them, their families. So then Coach Few, I’d never met. And he put out his hand and I’m like, alright. Yeah. I don’t know. Is he going to be comfortable if I pull him into a bro hug? I don’t know. So I just shook his hand. Kerr was right afterward. And Steve I knew. But the way it played out, I will say, it looked just like that Key & Peele skit.”

Obama revealed that he did not know that people would make the comparison because it was not a “conscious” decision.

You can watch the version from his presidency and the version from the Olympics:

When he watched it side-by-side, he felt like people “caught” him.

The former president added that the two comedians did plenty of funny sketches surrounding his presidency and believes that Jordan Peele does a fantastic impression of him.

Meanwhile, this was a great job by Haliburton to ask the question.

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Deion Sanders laughs last after Barack Obama’s jab about Colorado having ‘a couple good players’

Deion Sanders responded to Barack Obama’s comments about Colorado’s roster.

The Colorado Buffaloes are a good football team that’s handling its first season in the Big 12 fairly well, but just about every college football fan knows the Buffs have two big-time stars and future NFLers in wide receiver and defensive back Travis Hunter and quarterback Shedeur Sanders.

That includes President Barack Obama, who took a little jab at the Buffs while campaigning in Tucson ahead of the Colorado-Arizona game Saturday at Arizona Stadium.

“I know Colorado’s got a couple good players, but I also know you guys have beaten them twice in a row,” Obama said, playing to the Arizona crowd. “So, don’t bet against the Wildcats tomorrow.”

Well, after Colorado crushed Arizona, 34-7, on Saturday, Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders responded to Obama’s remarks about “a couple of good players.”

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During his post-game press conference Saturday, Sanders said:

“Let me go out and underscore this too: President Obama is everything to me. I love him, I admire him, I respect him tremendously. But. I heard what he said. President, I heard what you said, man. Like, come on, come on. That’s why I really don’t get into politics. I’m into people because politicians are — they play the political game, and he was here and had to play the political game.”

“So they have two good players? We have more than two good players. But you’re here, so you had to support that. And what’d he say? They won the last three meetings, two meetings? Something like that. He did his homework. Somebody gave him some great statistics. But President, come on, man. You my man. I love you. I appreciate you. But come on, dog.”

Clearly, no love lost between Obama and Sanders, who had a good laugh about it all.

Colorado is now 5-2 on the season and 3-1 in the Big 12. It’s lone loss so far is to Nebraska.

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Netflix’s Starting 5 trailer for the NBA version of Drive to Survive is here and it looks amazing

The show features LeBron James, Jayson Tatum, Jimmy Butler, Anthony Edwards and Domantas Sabonis.

Netflix will soon have a show about the NBA, releasing October 9, and we finally have a trailer to get excited about.

Starting 5 features a primary cast of LeBron James, Jayson Tatum, Jimmy Butler, Anthony Edwards and Domantas Sabonis. It is a 10-part series that provides an inside look at the 2023-24 NBA season. Each episode is a 45-minute long insight into their lives on and off the court.

This series will operate a bit like Drive to Survive about F1 racing, Break Point about tennis, Quarterback and Receiver about the NFL, as well as Full Swing about golf.

This trailer has some fun moments, including voiceovers from all of the main stars as well as LeBron James’ daughter Zhuri and a weird moment of James dressed as The Joker from Batman.

We also see Anthony Edwards singing, some mic’d up moments on the court, and a lot of the stars hanging with their families.

The series is produced by UNINTERRUPTED (from Maverick Carter) as well as Higher Ground Productions (from Barack and Michelle Obama) and Omaha Productions (from Peyton Manning).

Here are a few of the features still images from the show:

LeBron James

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Jimmy Butler

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Anthony Edwards

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Domantas Sabonis

Courtesy of Netflix © 2024

Jayson Tatum

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Former President Barack Obama cheers on Team USA on first day of 2024 Solheim Cup

Obama received a warm welcome on the first tee Thursday.

Four days after a meet-and-greet with the 12 players and five coaches with the American contingent at a team dinner, former President Barack Obama was back at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia, for the first day of action at the 2024 Solheim Cup.

Obama is a big fan of golf – he became a member of the Robert Trent Jones club in 2017 after leaving the White House after his second term – and is a big fan of this event.

His appearance Monday was a surprise but he received a rousing welcome Friday when he stepped out of the tunnel at the first tee.

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Perhaps Obama brought some good luck early as the U.S. won the first three foursomes matches and led 3-1 after the morning session.

Solheim Cup: Scoreboard, rosters | How to watch | Photos

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Former President Barack Obama visits United States Solheim Cup team before biennial bash

The Solheim Cup gets underway Friday.

The Solheim Cup, one of the best events in golf, kicks off Friday at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia.

The United States and European teams will practice all week until the opening ceremony on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. ET. On Friday and Saturday, the teams will face off in morning Foursomes (alternate shot) and afternoon Fourball (best ball) before Sunday Singles.

Solheim Cup: Scoreboard, rosters | How to watch | Photos

On Monday, Team USA, which features players like Nelly Korda, Lilia Vu, Rose Zhang and Lexi Thompson, was visited by a special guest at dinner.

Former United States President Barack Obama, a big-time golfer himself, surprised the U.S. squad by sharing some words of encouragement.

Allisen Corpuz, a Hawaiian who won the U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach, shared a handshake with President Obama. The two attended the same school.

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Dawn Staley and Barack Obama took an adorable selfie together at this week’s Team USA basketball game

This is so wholesome.

You never know who is going to run into whom at a sporting event, as was the case at Wednesday’s Team USA basketball game against Canada.

Former President Barack Obama and South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley greeted each other at Wednesday’s game, with the two taking an adorable selfie with each other, as was captured by the Fox Sports broadcast.

This was such a wonderful moment that surely happened spontaneously, as Staley and Obama sharing a selfie with each other on the Team USA basketball sideline is just too good a highlight.

Perhaps the Obamas will make a trip to South Carolina some time this season to deliver a motivational talk to the Gamecocks?

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Fans think Barack Obama unintentionally recreated a Key & Peele sketch while greeting USA men’s hoops

Former President Obama unintentionally recreated a famous Key and Peele skit.

On Wednesday, former President Barack Obama greeted members of the Team USA men’s basketball team ahead of their trip to Paris for the 2024 Olympics.

The meeting itself was very casual and amicable, but the way Obama greeted each member of the group instantly reminded fans of one of the most famous comedy sketches involving the former president.

The beloved sketch comedy series Key & Peele once did a very funny segment where Jordan Peele’s President Obama tended to greet each member of an event differently. The results were hilarious.

Obama previously greeted a Team USA contingent with roughly the same manner of approach, which makes all of this even more on point.

Well, watching Obama greet various NBA players like LeBron James and Steph Curry and other members of the Team USA contingent immediately reminded us of that famous Key & Peele sketch.

Watch for yourself, and you’ll see what we mean.

Alright, that’s pretty uncanny, isn’t it? The video went basically in uniform to the Key & Peele segment.

Fans quickly pointed out the similarities in what’s turned out to be an absolutely delightful mirror between fiction and reality.

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Former President Obama picks Vermont to upset Duke in the first round

Former President Barack Obama released his official March Madness bracket on Tuesday, and he doesn’t think Duke makes it to the second round.

Duke is used to being a villain come March, with many celebrity brackets including them as a first-round upset for no reason other than that they hope it happens.

Former presidents have to feel like a new one, though.

Barack Obama released his official March Madness bracket on Tuesday morning, and he thinks the Vermont Catamounts pull off the stunning upset in the first round.

Vermont, KenPom’s 104th-ranked team, has a 19-1 record since the new year began and recently won the America East Conference title over UMass Lowell.

Obama didn’t think the Catamounts’ Cinderella run extended much farther than that, however. He had Vermont losing to Wisconsin in the second round.

If there’s some small consolation for Duke fans, the former president had UNC coming up short, too. The Tar Heels reached his Elite Eight before being upset by Baylor.

Obama’s Final Four consisted of Connecticut, Baylor, Kentucky, and Purdue, with the Huskies defeating the Wildcats in the title game to defend their national championship crown.

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