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CRAIG ROBINSON, MICHELLE OBAMA'S BROTHER, TELLS "SUNDAY MORNING" HOW HISTORY MIGHT HAVE BEEN ALTERED BY A BASKETBALL GAME
History has been shaped on battlefields, war rooms...and possibly a playground in Chicago. Craig Robinson, coach of Oregon State University's basketball team and older brother to First Lady Michelle Obama, tells CBS SUNDAY MORNING this weekend (March 1) that early in their relationship his sister brought Barack Obama home to meet her family, and she insisted that Craig play basketball with him.
Robinson shares with Correspondent Jim Axelrod that she "heard my father and me talk about how you can tell a guy's real personality on the basketball court. And she wanted to know what he was like when she wasn't around." Once the game was underway, Robinson says he could tell right away that the future president was "very team oriented" and "passed the ball when he should." Impressed with what he saw on the court, Robinson explains that he was "able to report back to my sister that it was a good workout."
With a degree from Princeton, a successful coaching career and a First Lady for a sister, Robinson insists both Michelle and he owe everything to their parents. "It wasn't magic dust," he says. "There was love. There was discipline. There was respect...my mom and dad always gave my sister and I a sense of who we were."
SUNDAY MORNING is broadcast Sundays (9:00 AM - 10:30 AM EST) on the CBS Television Network. Rand Morrison is the executive producer.
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