New at Reason: Tim Cavanaugh on Barack Obama's Place in Presidential Sports History

January 20, 2009

Barack Obama's stated ambition to replace the White House bowling alley with a basketball court puts an official stamp on a long-term cultural shift, writes Contributing Editor Tim Cavanaugh. Football, the ascendant national pastime since at least the late 1950s, has been eclipsed by basketball. And the tedious tradition of White House athleticism has turned a new corner.

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