Jeffrey McManus

Link: Bush Turns His Hand to Volleyball – NYTimes.com

The 2004 gold medal winners Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh asked if he would play a little “pepper,” a warm-up drill bumping the volleyball back and forth. Bush initially tried to steer clear, replying “No, I’m a pretty good spectator.”

But after watching for a few minutes, the bikini-clad players eventually drew him on to the court in which he hit two but missing the third try as the ball fell a little short.

Before moving over to see the men practice, May-Treanor jokingly bent over and offered Bush a chance to give her a spank on her rear — a custom in many sports for players to offer each other encouragement.

Instead, he playfully used the back of his hand to tap her on the small of her back.

I don’t have a lot of events that I file in my brain under “lost opportunities I’ll regret for the rest of my life,” but I would have to imagine this is one of them.

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