ESPN's College GameDay To Air Live On Board USS San Diego on 11/10/2012

This from ESPN. It says on Veterans Day weekend, College GameDay will air live from the USS San Diego next Saturday on ESPNU and ESPN.

This is all part of ESPN’s five day initiative to honor veterans.

Servicemen and women from the San Diego area will be invited to attend the show.

We have the press blurb from ESPN on this.

ESPN’s College GameDay to Originate from USS San Diego on November 10

GameDay Joins ESPN’s America’s Heroes: A Salute to Our Veterans Initiative

College GameDay will originate from the flight deck of the USS SAN DIEGO (LPD 22), currently homeported at Naval Base San Diego, on Saturday, Nov. 10, as part of ESPN’s fourth annual America’s Heroes: A Salute to Our Veterans. The five-day initiative, from Wednesday, Nov. 7 through Sunday, Nov. 11, will honor veterans and troops in programming across ESPN’s U.S. media platforms.

College GameDay will air live at 9 a.m. ET on ESPNU and from 10 a.m.-noon on ESPN with host Chris Fowler, analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack, and hosts/reporters Samantha Steele and Tom Rinaldi.

Servicemen and women, along with their families, from the Naval Base San Diego and nearby Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton will make up GameDay’s live audience. Included in the early-morning telecast will be a feature by Rinaldi, who speaks with Clemson walk-on wide receiver Daniel Rodriguez, a decorated Afghanistan war veteran.

Additional telecast information will be revealed next week.

That’s all.

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