Barack Obama’s recent appearance on the campus of the University of North Carolina to hoop it up with the Tar Heels basketball team broke an NCAA rule, but the athletic association will ignore it due to a “great opportunity for the student-athletes to interact with a presidential candidate,” said NCAA media relations director Eric Christianson.

At issue is North Carolina’s coach attending the scrimmage and the timing of the game, which was held during a period when scrimmages are generally not permitted.

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CNN is reporting that Sen. Barack Obama visited the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and proceeded to launch an air ball.

Earlier: Bowling In Pennsylvania, Obama Scores a 37

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“We’re going to round the bases,” exclaimed Hillary Clinton to a crowd at a minor league baseball game today in Indiana. “We’re going to score a lot of runs and we’re going to feel really good about the home team, namely the American team, the team we’re all a part of!”

For once she wasn’t taking a swing at Barack Obama.

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Give the rock to Barack.

Obama helped lead his team past a group of high school students in basketball hungry Indiana. Proving his politics aren’t the only thing that’s on the left, he even nailed a “nifty” left-handed three-pointer.

Clearly he can play ball better than he bowls but the question remains, is he a ball hog?

For those scoring at home, Obama netted a hefty third of his team’s 15 total points. (Thanks for the correction, those of you who were actually scoring at home)

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The Detroit Free Press’ caption for this picture: “If you roll the ball with two hands you would almost certainly beat Barack Obama’s score: 37. The Illinois senator was in Altoona, Pa., on Saturday.” A perfect score is 300. Most inexperienced kids can score higher than a 37, bowling experts say.

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Men who wanted to grow up to be ball boys must run most cable newsrooms in the country. How else can one explain the never-ending coverage of Congressional hearings into whether Roger Clemens had steroids and HGH injected into his ass at some point in his career? The fact that so many (male) members of Congress have already spent years thinking about Clemens’ ass is bad enough, but now the media seems to think regular news viewers give a damn. If politicians can smoke marijuana and do cocaine without receiving any scrutiny nowadays, why, exactly, is this a story?

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Reports Page 6:

WASHINGTON Wizards’ Gilbert Arenas knows what real pain is. “When I was new in the NBA, the team veterans convinced me to shave, you know, down there,” the outspoken point guard tells next month’s Men’s Journal. “I used my girlfriend’s razor, which was rusty and gave me keloids. The doctor prescribed medicine to dab on, but I just poured it all over. Three days later I woke up screaming. The skin was burnt off . . . just raw flesh. I used a numbing spray for a month until it healed.”

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Not only do his kids hate him, but now Rudy Giuliani’s ex-wife Donna Hanover is subversively attacking him, too. While she’s said she won’t talk about Rudy or their nasty divorce on her daily radio show, yesterday she did manage to get a jab in, shouting, “Let’s go, Rockies” at the end of the program. Announcing she was rooting against the Red Sox in the World Series puts her in the opposite dugout from Rudy, who angered Yankee fans this week by telling a New England audience he wanted Boston to win.

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Well, well, it looks like somebody lost his star — thanks to Big Head DC’s relentless pursuit of the truth, no doubt.

Pretend-cowboy Al Hopkins, who was illegally using the Dallas Cowboys logo in his campaign for Mississippi attorney general up until, um, today, has removed the controversial logo from his site. His opponent, we hear, has been sticking it to him ever since we first noted the strange similarity earlier this week. 

For a guy running a campaign based on honesty, Hopkins seems a tad shady to us. We’ll be watching!

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Al Hopkins, running for attorney general in Mississippi, knows how to handle a campaign. He served on committees to elect George W. Bush and Dubya’s dad, too. Al also campaigned for Trent Lott, so he’ll have someone to call when he has to resign for stealing logos from the Dallas Cowboys and the men’s lacrosse team at Johns Hopkins.

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