time-blog.com - 8/26/2008
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Reggie Love is Barack Obama's right hand man : curator of his iPod, carrier of his hand sanitizer and disposer of unwanted brewskis. It's a job he prepared for by playing for playing football and basketball at Duke -- a team he was a walk-on for. I managed to catch him on the phone this morning, and now, thanks to the magic of transcription, you can read what we talked about. It was mostly -- ...
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A Reggie Love-Style Media Critique
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Ana Marie Cox scored a great get today with Barack Obama's "body man" and former Duke basketball player Reggie Love, and she's been so over the moon with enthusiasm that she's even contemplating reconsidering her longstanding antipathy to the Duke Blue Devils. Such is the "power" of "Love" that Huey Lewis and his News warned you about. And speaking of the news, check out this interview pull: ...
Messiah, Yes. Michael, No.
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] A few months ago, I wrote a story for the magazine on the idea, heard with some frequency at the time, that Barack Obama is "the Tiger Woods of politics." I found that ridiculous. Tiger Woods has won 14 major championships, and if he retired today he would be the second-best player in history. Obama? Not quite. So today comes a post at Time's Swampland blog in which Ana Marie Cox asks Reggie Love, the former Duke University basketball and football player who is constantly at Obama's side, this question: If Team Obama were a basketball team, which team would it be? ...
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