* ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex

** ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex *

On Wednesday, December 7, 2010, The Valley Cottage Indians Junior Midgets Small Novice Cheerleading team won the national championship at the ESPN Wide World of Sports in Orlando, Florida.

The NAFL championship game was played at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex from 2004-2007 and secured a contract to air it's AAA championship game on ESPN in November of 2007.

Beginning on April 3, 2010, Storm would host ESPN Sports Saturday, a show on corporate sibling ABC similar to that network's classic sports series, Wide World of Sports.

* ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, an athletic complex located in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, formerly known as Disney's Wide World of Sports.

There is also a restaurant called ESPN Club at Disney's BoardWalk Inn and an ESPN Grill at ESPN Wide World of Sports, both located within the Walt Disney World complex in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

* ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex

***** Vice President, ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex and Disney Water Parks-Ken Potrock

The lab works in association with the ESPN Innovation Lab located at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World and is the only sports technology lab to be constructed at a Florida college or university.

Varsity FTC Team 33, Maverick was a member of the VA FIRST FTC State Championship alliance and attended the 2011 VEX World Championships at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Center in FL.

Champion Stadium is a 9, 500 seat baseball stadium located at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in the Walt Disney World Resort.

Disney's Pop Century Resort is located near Epcot theme park, Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park, Disney's BoardWalk Area and ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.

The parking lot for the expansion was completed during the earlier phase of construction, and occasionally was used as overflow parking for the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.

For the past 14 years, the event has taken place at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, FL during the first full week of December.

The first and second place squads in the region in each small and large category, Novice, Intermediate and Advanced are invited to perform at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in hopes of winning a national championship for their local association.

Orlando's ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex hosted the Tomahawks's test against England, for the latter's 2000 World Cup warm up game.

This theme lends itself to the title of The Bronx Is Burning, an eight-part ESPN TV mini-series ( 2007 ) about the New York Yankees ' drive to winning baseball's 1977 World Series.

The first World Cheerleading Championships, or Cheerleading Worlds, were hosted by the USASF / IASF at the Walt Disney World Resort and taped for an ESPN global broadcast in 2004.

A local subscription service, KTV carries satellite channels such as ESPN, Discovery CNN International and Turner Classic Movies ( from the United States ) and BBC World from the United Kingdom.

The Guinness Book of World Records recognized a 78 foot wave ride filmed by ESPN as the largest wave ever surfed.

At the beginning of the 2010 Major League Baseball season only one ( Jim Caple of ESPN. com, although he later recanted his pick before the NLCS, saying the Philadelphia Phillies would beat the Giants and advance to the World Series ) out of literally dozens of baseball writers and pundits picked the Giants to even reach the World Series, with most not expecting the Giants to even make the playoffs.

* World Cup Live, the World Cup show on ESPN and ESPN2

The World Challenge was transferred to Versus, while the ALMS was transferred to an ESPN / ABC partnership.

SSI invited the 1997 Pro World Champions, the Flyboyz, to participate in the 1998 ESPN X Games as an unofficial exhibition.

* ESPN selected his pitching performance in the 1905 World Series as the greatest playoff performance of all time.

The subsequent 1991 World Series was ranked by ESPN to be the best ever played, with four games decided on the final pitch and three games going into extra innings.

The World Series has traditionally been featured on ESPN.

* Bernard Lee ( poker player ): World ranked poker player, columnist for ESPN. com

In 1979, ESPN became interested in showing Main Events shows from Ice World, and they began to do so soon after.

His television appearances include Nightline ; ABC World News ; ABC News 20 / 20 ; numerous programs on CBS ; NBC ; CNN ; and Fox ; PBS ; MacNeil-Lehrer ; CNBC ; the BBC ; the Canadian Broadcasting Network ; C-SPAN ; the Christian Broadcasting Network ; Donahue ; This Week with David Brinkley, the History Channel, ESPN, and many others.

* Lon McEachern ESPN Sports Broadcaster, most notable for hand-by-hand commentary on the World Series of Poker

The AWA even teased fans with Slaughter appearing to win the World title from Zbyszko live on ESPN, only to have the decision reversed on a technicality ( a booking practice the AWA had been employing for years ).

He then worked as a pundit for the BBC at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and also worked for Sky Sports and ESPN before returning to management with Thailand in 2008.

* In the field of sports, Rider graduates include: Jack Armstrong, 1990 Major League Baseball ( MLB ) All-Star and World Champion ; Al Downing, 1967 MLB All-Star and Strikout Champion, and 1971 MLB Comeback Player of the Year ; Jeff Kunkel, professional baseball player ; Caroline Lind, MBA, Olympic Gold Medal rower at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ; Digger Phelps, ESPN college basketball analyst and former Notre Dame Fighting Irish basketball coach ; Bobby Smith, National Soccer Hall of Fame member ; and Jason Thompson, basketball player in the NBA.

In 1995, Stephen Greenberg co-founded Classic Sports Network with Brian Bedol, which was purchased by ESPN and became ESPN Classic.

It was also named " The Best Sports Stadium in North America " by ESPN The Magazine in a ranking that included over 120 different stadiums, ballparks and arenas from around North America.

* 1979 – The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, better known as ESPN, makes its debut.

This would be the final Super Bowl hosted by Musburger, as all subsequent Super Bowls on ABC were hosted by ESPN's Chris Berman following the Disney purchase of ABC ( which included ESPN ), and the subsequent integration of ESPN and ABC Sports ( now ESPN on ABC ).

Sports talk radio can be found locally and nationally in the US ( with the networks ESPN Radio, Fox Sports Radio, and Sporting News Radio, as well as nationally syndicated hosts Jim Rome and Dan Patrick ).

Voted " Indiana's Best College Sports Rivalry " by viewers of ESPN in 2005, DePauw University and Wabash College play each November — in the last regular season football game of the year for both teams — for the right to keep or reclaim the Monon Bell.

* September 7 – In the USA, the Entertainment Sports Programming Network, known as ESPN, broadcasts for the first time.

For example, the ESPN Sports Almanac considers the renovated stadium to be " Yankee Stadium II ," and the pre-renovated facility to be " Yankee Stadium I ".

Through the early 2000s, the ABC Sports division and ESPN merged operations.

* ESPN Sports Century – # 35 – Secretariat

They quickly reached an over-the-air television deal with ABC Sports and a cable TV deal with then-fledgling ESPN.

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With attendance routinely well below the league average, Sports Illustrated ran a story titled " Natural Disaster ," and ESPN anchors mocked the " Green Acres " of empty seats ; in a 2006 interview, Karmanos admitted that " as it turns out, was probably a mistake.

In February 2006, Disney CEO Bob Iger initiated a trade with NBC Universal in which a number of minor assets, including the rights to Oswald, were acquired by The Walt Disney Company in exchange for sending sportscaster Al Michaels from Disney's ABC and ESPN to NBC Sports.

Also, ESPN. com Page 2 columnist Bill Simmons often jokes that he is looking forward to running a future network ; SportsCenter anchors appeared as themselves in music videos by Brad Paisley ( I'm Gonna Miss Her ( The Fishin ' Song )) and Hootie and the Blowfish ( Only Wanna Be With You ); and the 1998 TV series Sports Night was based on an ESPN-style network and its titular, SportsCenter-analogue flagship sports results program.

Electronic Arts in the early 1990s used to have a faux sports network logo on their sports games called EASN ( Electronic Arts Sports Network ), but soon changed to EA Sports after ESPN requested that they stop using it.

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ESPN The Magazine produced its first “ Women in Sports ” issue in June 2012.