Posts by Matt Flegenheimer

At Sea: The Morbid Spectacle of NCAA Basketball on the Deck of the USS Carl Vinson

When it was announced in March, the inaugural Carrier Classic sounded, admittedly, like a cool idea. Take two signature hoops programs (UNC and Michigan State), schedule a game for Veterans Day, invite a few ESPN cameras, and do it all on the flight deck of a big, bad warship — before a crowd of mostly […]