Great Clips of the Week: Little League WS champs freak out over tweet from Obama

SHOUTING YOU OUT ON TWITTER — Every athlete, no matter the level, wants to win a championship.

A group of Little Leaguers did that over the weekend. But that wasn't the highlight of their Sunday.

As always, click the video above for each of our Great Clips of the Week.

From Obama, with love

Winning a championship is every team's goal.

But for the Little League baseball players from Hawaii, winning the 2018 Little League World Series was a little extra special.

The islanders from Honolulu, Hawaii blanked South Korea, 3-0 to win the Little League World Series title Sunday, capping a dominant run to the championship game with the biggest prize.

Hawaii didn’t allow a run in their final 17 innings of the tournament.

After the game, former President Barack Obama — who graduated from Punahou High School on the islands in 1979 — gave the team a personal shout out via Twitter.

Every game of the tournament was broadcast on the ESPN family of networks. But the social-media fueled shoutout was special for the post-millennials as they celebrated with a postgame dinner, and the whole thing was caught on video.

"Yo, that’s dope," one youngster quips.

"Barack Obama shouted us out," another player adds.

For the next Little League World Series champion, we’d like to see the former Commander-in-Chief gave a shout out on Instagram.

Wanna get away?

We’ve all been there before.

You just did something impressive, but got turned around as all your focus was on one task, and before you know it, you’re somewhere you’ve never been.

It happened to Miami Dolphins linebacker Kiko Alonso, too, in Saturday night’s NFL preseason game.

After the five-year NFL veteran made a third-down tackle against Baltimore tight end Maxx Williams, Alonso trotted to the sideline, took off his helmet and looked up at his coach — errrr, Ravens coach John Harbaugh.

Shaking it off with a laugh, Alonso ran back to his own sideline, but took some gentle ribbing from his teammates.

"I don’t know. I just kind of — like I said, I did a flip after I tackled the guy, and kind of just ran over there and it was the wrong sideline," Alonso told reporters after the game.

Alonso admits he’ll probably hear about the mishap for "a while," and that’s OK. It’s all in good fun, right?

Until he gets traded.

Bills Mafia 4 Life

Local hometown heroes are celebrated by sports fanbases, especially after winning a championship, making the playoffs or breaking some other long drought.

But have you ever seen an opposing crowd celebrate the other team’s quarterback?

You have now.

Buffalo Bills fans gave Cincinnati quarterback Andy Dalton a standing ovation before Sunday’s preseason game with the Bengals. Dalton, you may recall, hit Tyler Boyd with a 49-yard touchdown on fourth down with less than a minute left against Baltimore that secured the Bills a wild-card spot in last year’s postseason.

Eight months later, Bills fans gave a big 'thank you' to the former TCU signal caller.

Bills fans also responded last season by donating more than $100,000 to the Andy & Jordan Dalton Foundation, the quarterback’s charity that helps seriously ill and physically challenged children and their families in the Cincinnati and Fort Worth, Texas areas.

So, it may appear, the feeling's mutual.

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