This Sunday’s Times Magazine will include a big piece on incoming press secretary Robert Gibbs. It’s the usual stuff, but this stood out, showing just how confident Team Obama was toward the end of the campaign:

Dunn tells the story of a tense practice session before the third debate in which Obama, sitting at a table, kept looking up intently at Gibbs across the room. They were sending urgent-looking BlackBerry messages back and forth, and Dunn became concerned that some crisis had arisen. When the session ended, the men ran over to each other. It was a Sunday afternoon, and they had been following the fortunes of Obama’s fantasy football team.