Thursday, November 10, 2011

College Basketball On The Aircraft Carrier USS Carl Vinson

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Aircraft Carrier To Turn Into College Basketball Court For Veterans Day -- Time

Michigan State and North Carolina will face off on the USS Carl Vinson.

When your basketball game is on a massive aircraft carrier, why not have more than one court?

As two top-10 college basketball teams—Michigan State and North Carolina—prepare to play in the first-ever carrier classic in San Diego, crews must set up two different courts on the USS Carl Vinson in case the Southern California weather doesn’t hold out. And with rain in the forecast for San Diego Bay on Friday evening, nobody knows which of the two courts will get used.

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More News On Michigan State And North Carolina Facing Off On The USS Carl Vinson

North Carolina, Michigan State Set to Face Off Aboard Navy Warship -- FOX News/AP
Basketball on a boat -- Chicago Tribune
College Basketball: How We Got to Playing the Carrier Classic -- Bleacher Report
Dive for that loose ball! -- Scoop Deck, Military Times
College hoops game to be played aboard USS Carl Vinson (Photo Gallery) -- Washington Post
Michigan State’s Aircraft Carrier Adventure -- New York Times
Carrier Classic Allows Players to Support Troops -- Military.com
Ship for Carrier Classic raises scholarly questions -- USA Today
College hoops aboard the USS Carl Vinson (Photo gallery) -- FOX Sports
USS Carl Vinson (Photo Gallery) -- News Observer
Here's how the USS Carl Vinson will look -- CBS Sports

1 comment:

DarKScoRpioN said...

This was a stroke of genius from OBama on the USS Carl Vinson! Very cool. read more about it here.

http://singaporetrends.com/sg/2011/11/uss-carl-vinson/