Education secretary Arne Duncan credits basketball with life assist

[tonysam]

Puke alert:

Arne Duncan loves basketball. And why wouldn't he?

It helped him get to Harvard.

It's how he found his wife.

It even played a role in his becoming Secretary of Education.

"So much of what I've learned in life, I learned on a basketball court," he says. "It helped shape me. And it's been formative. It's been a love for a long, long time. It's something I still love."

Duncan, 45, was honorable mention all-Ivy League at Harvard in the mid-1980s. He played professionally in Australia, where he met his future wife. And he became good friends with Craig Robinson on the playground courts of Chicago.

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Duncan believes — and this is another thing he shares with the president — that basketball reveals character.

No, it just reveals you are just another dumb jock with a cushy job.

USA Today

[joeybee12]

1. Reveals character? Like Kobe Bryant's character? n/t

[yurbud]

2. or Dennis Rodman or...

[yurbud]

3. when in a basketball game do you sell out kids' futures by privatizing education?

[lutefisk]

4. The only thing he's been trained to do is play hoops. It explains his simplistic approach.

Basketball is played on a defined court and has specific rules. You win or lose- that's the bottom line.

The team loses too many games- fire the coach. Players don't perform- get new players. Someone pays you to play- you play...

[Starry Messenger]

5. I bet he gives out copies of Chicken Soup for the Soul too.

I can just see it. This guy is as deep as a hangnail.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Ah geez

Puke alert is right.

[mbperrin]

7. Then why isn't he out playing basketball somewhere instead of

ruining the country???

No WONDER I can't run the world! In the 2nd grade, our coach lined us up to shoot one free throw. If you made it, you were allowed to play sports for the school: track, baseball, basketball, all of it. If you missed (I missed), you got to sit and watch the winners play.

Oh, well.