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Coach Robinson on CBS Sunday Morning

From the CBS Sunday Morning upcoming page (link here and down below the Watchmen movie preview):

PEOPLE: Oregon State Coach Tom Robinson
Growing up, Craig Robinson was used to getting all the attention. A high-school basketball star, he made it from the hard-scrabble streets of South Chicago to Princeton University, where he twice was chosen Ivy League Player of the Year. He played professional basketball in Europe for a few years before getting his MBA and embarking on a high-flying career as a bond trader and investment banker. Throughout his life, he watched over (and overshadowed) his little sister, Michelle Robinson, who though successful in her own right, took a back-seat to her older brother.

That was until Michelle got married, and her husband, Barack Obama, became the 44th President of the United States.

Now, the tables have turned, and Michelle is the superstar of the Robinson family, and Craig couldn’t be happier for her. But he’s not resting on his laurels … he gave up a lucrative job in finance to follow his life-long love affair with basketball, and this year he signed on as head coach of the Oregon State University men’s basketball team. Both Michelle and Craig Robinson were raised to never back down from a challenge, and Craig now is trying to bring back a once-storied basketball program up from last place, where they bottomed out last year.

Correspondent Jim Axelrod talks with Craig Robinson about growing up with Michelle, and interviews their mother, Marian Robinson, about just what “magic dust” was sprinkled on their tiny, walk-up apartment in Chicago to produce two such remarkable people.

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Ha

Just noticed their typo of his name in the beginning, that was CBS not me!

-RVM

by rvm on Feb 28, 2009 2:09 PM PST reply actions  

Wow, first he gets misidentified at the Inauguration

And now they call him Tom. Hopefully I wake up early enough to watch this. I know I read what time it is supposed to come on (7:30??) but can’t remember for sure.

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by Jake Bertalotto on Feb 28, 2009 3:39 PM PST up reply actions  

good question, not sure of the time

Have to be honest I was going to catch it on video later, so hoping it will be posted on their site afterwards.

-RVM

by rvm on Feb 28, 2009 3:42 PM PST up reply actions  

yay for DVR

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by Jake Bertalotto on Feb 28, 2009 4:40 PM PST up reply actions  

I forgot to set my TiVo...

Luckily, TiVo is smart enough to remember that we watched CBS Sunday Morning last week, and that I like Oregon State, and it recorded it anyhow.

It was a really nice piece on Coach Rob… just too bad that we didn’t get the Civil War win to cap it off, because the bits from Corvallis were filmed on the day of Civil War I.

by sangdorange on Mar 2, 2009 3:01 PM PST up reply actions  

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