FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — In Barack Obama’s world, there’s always time for hoops. The Democratic presidential candidate played basketball Wednesday with soldiers from Fort Bragg before delivering a speech on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War.
Then, during his short flight from Fayetteville to Charlotte, N.C., Obama began working on his NCAA basketball tournament bracket. The campaign staff is competing in a $10-per-person pool. When the plane landed, an aide asked whom Obama was supporting. The senator joked that his was a scientific process and he could not be rushed into making his picks.
The tournament gets underway in earnest today.
Intent on being part of March Madness, Republican rival John McCain has an NCAA bracket competition on his campaign website. Among the prizes are a McCain fleece jacket, cap and pin.
The Associated Press
