The New York Yankees won 11 World Series during the presidencies of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
The UCLA Bruins ruled college basketball nine out of 10 years during the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
The Boston Celtics collected 11 championships in the 13 years that took the world from Sputnik to a man on the moon (that’s Eisenhower to Nixon).
Roger Federer was the world’s top-ranked men’s tennis player for 237 consecutive weeks of George H. Bush’s presidency.
And the nascent Trump presidency?
Its sports soulmate might be the New England Patriots.
This is the second consecutive Super Bowl weekend that finds Trump as America’s 45th President. As was the case last year, New England enters the game a modest favorite over its NFC opponent.