Can Obama do something about athletic commissions on a federal level? Perhaps make them not suck so consistently? Maybe he can release a drone to keep an eye on questionable judges so we can be free of one of America's leading causes of cardiac arrest: the moronic split-decision. We should be redirecting an extremely lopsided amount of federal funding away from the war machine and towards education, specifically to better educate our MMA judges. I would even go so far as to internationally educate MMA judges if need be. We are America, damn it. It is our duty to be the world leaders in everything violent, thus MMA betterment should be shot through the pipeline fast and furious style.

I fear my name will go on a scary list (if it isn't already) if I keep up with this article, so look at Obama, one spot ahead of Dana White on the Sports Illustrated 50 Most Powerful People in Sports list, which is a 100% scientific list with little human error.

Now Dana and Barack have something to break the ice if they ever are at a cocktail party together.

1. Roger Goodell    NFL commissioner
2. David Stern    NBA commissioner
3. Philip Anschutz     AEG owner
4. John Skipper     ESPN president
5. Bud Selig    MLB commissioner
6. Stan Kroenke     Kroenke Sports Enterprises owner
7. Mark Lazarus    NBC Sports chairman
8. Jacques Rogge    IOC president
9. Phil Knight     Nike chairman
10. Hedge Fund Dude
11. Mark Walter     Guggenheim Partners CEO & Dodgers owner
12. Robert Kraft     Patriots owner
13. Sean McManus     CBS Sports chairman
14. Michael Dolan     IMG Worldwide CEO
15. Eric Shanks     Fox Sports copresident
16. Sepp Blatter     FIFA president
17. Mike Slive     SEC commissioner
18. Adam Silver     NBA deputy commissioner
19. Jerry Jones     Cowboys owner
20. Larry Ellison     Oracle CEO
21. Richard Scudamore     Barclays Premier League CEO
22. Bernie Ecclestone     Formula One president and CEO
23. Scott Boras    Baseball agent
24. Kevin Plank     Under Armour CEO
25. Tim Finchem     PGA commissioner
26. Jm Delany     Big Ten commissioner
27. Gary Bettman     NHL commissioner
28. David Levy     Turner Broadcasting president of sales, distribution and sports
29. Glazer Family
30. Carlos Brito     Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO
31. Donald Fehr     NHLPA executive director
32. Herbert Hainer     Adidas Group CEO
33. Bob Bowman     MLB Advanced Media CEO
34. Casey Wasserman     Wasserman Media Group CEO
35. DeMaurice Smith    NFLPA executive director
36. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan     UAE Deputy Prime Minister & Man. City owner
37. Travis Tygart     USADA CEO
38. Mark Emmert     NCAA president
39. John Riccitiello     Electronic Arts CEO
40. Brian France     NASCAR CEO and chairman
41. Alison Lewis and Sharon Byers     Coca-Cola North America
42. Al Haymon     Boxing adviser and promoter
43. Ed O'Bannon     Retired basketball player
44. Barack Obama     U.S. President

45. Dana White UFC president

46. Cindy Davis     Nike Golf president
47. Tom Condon     CAA Sports cohead of football division
48. Mark Cuban     Mavericks owner
49. Stephen Espinoza     Showtime executive VP of sports and event programming
50. Michael Jordan    Bobcats owner

Teenage Obama and Matt Riddle probably would have been really good friends.

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+2 # pale 2013-03-06 16:46

In other news, Overeem is injured JDS without an opponent. Mark Hunt vs JDS yes please!

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+1 # Cats Panties 2013-03-06 16:59

Dana wishes he was mark Cuban

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+6 # coltrane 2013-03-06 17:07

can someone explain to me why Obama is considered a powerful person in sports? I'm Canadian - forgive me, I'm only familiar with his policies not his passions...

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0 # CH4 2013-03-07 07:21

he enjoys basketball. he's been interviewed about college ball a few times

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0 # coltrane 2013-03-07 12:30

Quoting CH4:

he enjoys basketball. he's been interviewed about college ball a few times

thank you. still seems weird that he'd be on such a list simply because he enjoys a sport. What power does he wield?

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+1 # fuckandersonsilva 2013-03-06 17:54

Hedge Fund Dude is ruthless. He takes no prisoners. Just like Diego Sanchez

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0 # io331 2013-03-06 20:58

Goldberg: Obama is so explosive Joe. He won 91% of the total explosive vote in his last contest.

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+3 # toby 2013-03-07 02:29

pretty bizarre list. so sepp blatter, the president of fifa, the governing body of the most popular sport in the world (sorry america, but more people globally play 'soccer' than any other sport) is only #16?

also, where's the cricket officials? there's a billion people in india and all of them play it, surely one of the cricket officials should have made it

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+4 # Wanderson Silver 2013-03-07 07:28

50 Most Popular People in (North American) Sports. Don't think people outside of US/maybe Canada really care for Roger Goodell

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+2 # Sporadik 2013-03-07 08:32

yep that seemed heavily flawed. Especially if you follow football (soccer). NFL and MLB really? Lets go ask Europeans hot much American Football and Baseball they watch *smh* and as much as I hate cricket and it made me cut myself for the first time out of pure boredom why isn't there any cricket on the list? but a Fox Sports correspondent is #15 WTF

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