{"id":265,"date":"2008-09-08T11:42:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T17:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2016-05-12T17:18:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T21:18:27","slug":"go-to-team-plays-basketball-with-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/2008\/go-to-team-plays-basketball-with-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Go To Team Plays Basketball With Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"440\" height=\"361\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/broadband\/player.swf?mediaId=3553404\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/broadband\/player.swf?mediaId=3553404\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"440\" height=\"361\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/12194408\/cimg0633-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-152\" title=\"Skip Clark Shoots Obama\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/12194408\/cimg0633-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alright, so we didn\u2019t really get to play ball with the Democratic nominee.\u00a0 But we did shoot all the video!\u00a0 ESPN\u2019s Stuart Scott and producer Marc Weiner came to Greensboro, NC, to interview the Presidential Candidate and Go To Team crewed the whole thing.\u00a0 Skip Clark from Charlotte, NC, and Jimmy Hall from Raleigh, NC, brought their Panasonic Varicams while Rene Cusson and Ian McCullen ran audio.\u00a0 Emily South was there from Charlotte as the make-up artist.\u00a0 ESPN had a one-on-one with the candidate as they used a high school gymnasium to set up the interview and then play a little basketball.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/12194404\/cimg0611.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-153\" title=\"ESPN Interview with Obama\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/12194404\/cimg0611-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The interview was a \u201cdown to brass-tacks\u201d conversation, but the game was a little one-sided.\u00a0 No one is saying that Stuart Scott let Obama win, but when the guy is running for President of the United States of America, and the guy has an entire team of Secret Service agents wandering around the entire gym, you\u2019re probably gonna go a little easier.\u00a0 Be sure to check out the story on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/broadband\/video\/videopage?categoryId=null&amp;brand=null&amp;videoId=3553404&amp;n8pe6c=2\">ESPN.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, so we didn\u2019t really get to play ball with the Democratic nominee.\u00a0 But we did shoot all the video!\u00a0 ESPN\u2019s Stuart Scott and producer Marc Weiner came to Greensboro, NC, to interview the Presidential Candidate and Go To Team crewed the whole thing.\u00a0 Skip Clark from Charlotte, NC, and Jimmy Hall from Raleigh, NC, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":27691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[30,111,34,351,239,240,35,241,306],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}