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HONOLULU (AP) - On the day of his big victory in Iowa, Barack Obama got up early to play basketball with some of his Hawaii buddies.  Obama’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, has just returned from campaigning in rural Iowa and says she caught wind of Obama’s chances to sweep the state’s president caucuses for the Democratic presidential nomination.  She spoke with Obama several times on the phone from Honolulu on caucus day.  She says her brother was up at 5:30 a.m. for a basketball game with old friends from Hawaii who had flown into Iowa to help with the campaign.  Soetoro-Ng, who is a history teacher at La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls, says the game got Hawaii-born Obama in a relaxed mood for the big day.  Information from: The Honolulu Advertiser