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(CBS)PRESIDENT OBAMA TODAY: President Obama focuses on fatherhood today, two days before Father’s Day, by visiting a local non-profit organization and holding an event at 3:15pm ET to discuss fatherhood and mentoring. Mr. Obama will be joined by Military Father of the Year Chief Quartermaster John Lehnen. He’ll also deploy various staffers, politicians, celebrities and leaders to visit other local non-profits to deliver the same message. Among those taking part are basketballers Dewayne Wade and Eton Thomas, former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Bill Cowher, Washington Redskins wide receiver Antwan Randle El, pro skateboarder Tony Hawk, Morehouse College President Robert Franklin, Motorola President and CEO Greg Brown, Tony award winning actor BD Wong, chef Bobby Flay and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos.
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For if there is one thing James possesses, which ought to make Cavaliers’ fans sleep easier, it is consideration for others.

That is the overwhelming message from the premiering documentary More Than a Game about LeBron’s basketball upbringing and that of his high school teammates. I caught the movie on Monday at opening night for the 2009 Silverdocs film festival in Silver Spring, Md., organized by The Discovery Channel and the American Film Institute and attended by the film’s subjects, LeBron and his four best friends — and ballahs — from childhood. After all these years, after all those tens of millions of dollars, after all the awards and accolades, LeBron is still tightest with four guys with whom he grew up, not Jay-Z or Ice Cube or some other hip-hop-star-come-lately. How neat is that?

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Source: Kevin Blackstone, Fanhouse