US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle enjoyed the first college hoops game on USS Carl Vinson, an active aircraft carrier, on Friday night. Obama sat courtside and watched North Carolina beat Michigan State 67-55 on a hardwood court laid on the flight deck that catapulted US warplanes to bomb targets in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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