a city teeming with governmental gains and professionals who view politics as a sport, but it s also full of professional sports teams. our hockey team is pretty good, our basketball teams, well, pray for them. speaking of basketball, as i take leave of my hosting chair here in d.c., i m heading over to the verizon center to catch the u.s. men s and women s basketball teams tune up for their olympic gold in london in a couple of weeks and yes, the first fan, president obama, will be there, too, because he s got a serious billion basketball jones and since he s the leader of the fwree world and since teams are preparing to represent us in the u.k., it makes sense for him to cheer them on. most of the men and women on the floor tonight will be black. but they won t be hooping for their home teams or race or gender. they ll be proudly representing the dwrits and most americans looking on won t think it s a problem at all.