Bernie Wilson

SAN DIEGO -- If all goes right on New Year's Eve, daredevils Robbie Maddison and Levi LaVallee will roar down the takeoff ramps on a motorcycle and snowmobile, respectively, fly over a 300-foot water gap, complete their record-setting jumps and toast their accomplishments.

The side-by-side jumps at Embarcadero Marina Park on San Diego Bay will be the latest in the "Red Bull: New Year. No Limits" series.

SAN DIEGO -- Carson Palmer looked like an NFL quarterback again, not like a guy who had settled into semi-retirement in Southern California.

Philip Rivers looked, well, like the turnover-prone quarterback that he's been since opening day.

Palmer threw two touchdown passes and Michael Bush ran 30 times for a season-high 157 yards and one touchdown to lead the Oakland Raiders to a 24-17 win over San Diego on Thursday night, the Chargers' fourth straight loss.

SAN DIEGO -- Organizers say it's all but certain that the Michigan State-North Carolina basketball game on Veterans Day will be played aboard the USS Carl Vinson, the aircraft carrier that carried Osama bin Laden's body to a burial at sea.

The Carl Vinson returned from its deployment Wednesday to Coronado, across the bay from downtown San Diego.

Mike Whalen of the Morale Entertainment Foundation told The Associated Press that 40 to 50 people from his group, ESPN, the Navy and vendors will be at the ship on Monday and Tuesday for a site survey. A briefing for civic leaders and the media is planned for Monday evening at the San Diego Hall of Champions.

PALA, Calif. -- It's a circus, all right, and don't think for a minute that three rings are anywhere near enough to hold action sports wild man Travis Pastrana and his merry band of daredevils.

After playing to big crowds Down Under, Pastrana will unleash his Nitro Circus Live on North America for the first time in a one-off show Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

Billed as the "greatest live action sports show of all time," Nitro Circus Live will include the standard fare of freestyle motocross, BMX and skateboarding while veering to outrageous stunts such as a guy nicknamed "Wheelz" doing flips in his wheelchair off the 50-foot Nitro Giganta Ramp.

Sacramento Kings co-owner Joe Maloof is planning a crown jewel of a skate park for the Maloof Money Cup South Africa world skateboarding championships this fall.

The permanent park will be built near a former diamond mine in Kimberley known as the "Big Hole." It will feature a 15,000-square-foot concrete street course shaped like a diamond, a halfpipe billed as the biggest on the continent and a Mini Mega ramp.

SAN DIEGO -- Today's Top 10 showdown between BYU and San Diego State won't begin until "The Show" begins.

Minutes before the noon MST tipoff, on cue from SDSU running back Ronnie Hillman, a few thousand students will begin chanting "I believe that we will win" while jumping up and down in a sort of vertical mosh pit stretching from the front row behind the east baseline to the top row of Viejas Arena. There will be a gecko, a Spider-Man, an elf, a 12-year-old kid dressed as a banana -- his dad's a booster -- and others in wacky costumes.

SAN DIEGO -- This sounds almost too nice to be a rivalry.

Fans shouldn't expect any trash talking on the court when Jimmer Fredette and the No. 7 BYU Cougars visit D.J. Gay and the No. 6 San Diego State Aztecs on Saturday in a nationally televised showdown.