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Spain started strong, building a five-point lead within the first five minutes. The team's point guard phenom, 17-year old Ricky Rubio, dazzled the crowd with a no-look pass for a Pau Gasol lay-up, and a behind-the-back shake of Jason Kidd. The youngest player to ever win an Olympics hoops medal, Rubio looks, and plays, like the legendary "Pistol" Pete Maravich. He's got the think dark eyebrows, floppy hair, and flair. NBA scouts are already salivating...
...million underfunded. Soon after, word came down that he would not only need to build the stage and venue at the Pepsi Center but he'd need to build a second stage - without adding any additional staff - at Invesco Field so Obama could deliver his acceptance speech before a crowd of 71,000. "Everyone said, 'Look we're going to do this, we think it is the right thing to open up this convention to the people of Colorado and to the people of the country and to give them the opportunity to participate,'" Nugen says. "People were a little...
Introducing his newly-minted running mate, Barack Obama had a slip of the tongue. "Let me introduce you to the next President... the next Vice President of the United States of America," Obama told a crowd of 35,000 yesterday on the steps to the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, the same site where Obama announced his bid for the White House. The crowd laughed but, in many ways, Obama was telling the truth. The choice of Biden was meant to complete the Presidential candidate...
...caucuses after garnering less than 10,000 votes. In Springfield, Biden made it clear he changed his mind after following Obama's path to the nomination. "Over the past 18 months, I've watched Barack meet those challenges with judgment, intelligence, and steel in his spine," Biden told the crowd. "I've watched as he's inspired millions of Americans, millions of Americans to this new cause...
...known for his blue-haired audiences. He would linger for hours, answering questions in a folksy way that seems to have an appeal to many white working class voters. Talking about his wife in Springfield, Biden invoked a bit of bawdy humor tailor-made for the beer-drinking crowd. "Ladies and gentlemen, my wife Jill, who you'll meet soon, is drop dead gorgeous," he said, placing such emphasis on the last three words that you got the impression he'd rather be smooching his wife than giving the speech...