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Chicago doesn't need Games

By Jon Greenberg
ESPNChicago.com

Monday, September 28, 2009

Forget Oprah. Tell the first lady to stay home and keep the president with her. Oprah and Michelle Obama were bad enough, and sure to charm the IOC into submission. But now we've got President Obama going to Copenhagen to make the pitch for Chicago's Olympic bid? That's like bringing in Mariano Rivera in the ninth ... of the Little League World Series. This is very bad news for the anti-Olympics folks in Chicago, the ones who don't want their city to be encumbered by orange cones for ye ...

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