BuzzFeed - Photograph by Leah Nash for BuzzFeed CORVALLIS, Ore. â The mass text message went out on the morning of Aug. 25, 2008, a reminder from Oregon State University menâs basketball coach Craig Robinson that everyone should tune into any one of the major news channels that evening. With his sister at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Paul J. Richards / AFP / Getty This had nothing to do with basketball. Instead, Robinson was slated to introduce his younger sister Michelle Obama on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention. His speech would come two days before Barack Obama would officially accept the partyâs presidential nomination.One of the people who received the text message was Roberto Nelson, then a 17-year-old basketball star from Santa Barbara, Calif. Robinson had entered Nelsonâs life only a few months earlier during a recruiting visit. Nelson came away especially impressed with Robinson, in part because the coach never brought up the
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