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The ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex is a 220-acre (89 ha) multi-purpose sports complex located at Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, United States, near Orlando. The complex allows families to combine tournaments and competition with a visit to vacation destinations in the area.
The Ballpark opened with the rest of Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex on March 28, 1997, with an exhibition baseball game between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds. The Gulf Coast League Braves began play at the stadium in 1997, [ 6 ] while the Atlanta Braves started its 20-year spring training lease in 1998.
ABC's Wide World of Sports is an American sports anthology television program that aired on ABC from April 29, 1961, to 1997, primarily on Saturday afternoons. Hosted by Jim McKay , with a succession of co-hosts beginning in 1987, the title continued to be used for general sports programs on the network until 2006.
Wide World of Sports was the first U.S. television program to air coverage of – among events – Wimbledon (1961), the Indianapolis 500 (highlights starting in 1961; a longer-form version in 1965), the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship (1962), the Daytona 500 (1962), the U.S. Figure Skating Championships (1962), the Monaco Grand Prix (1962 ...
In Florida, Disney World is home to Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Animal Kingdom and Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Disney World also includes Disney Springs, ESPN Wild World of Sports Complex ...
Disney CEO Bob Iger and his wife Willow Bay, who is dean of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism, are close to purchasing a controlling share of Angel City FC, according to multiple reports.
Disney also plans to launch a stand-alone streaming version of ESPN in autumn 2025, which would incorporate digital features such as sports betting, fantasy sports and e-commerce.
The ESPN Wide World of Sports Resort Area is the area located near the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in the southern part of the Walt Disney World Resort. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The furthest resort area from most of the theme parks, it includes two value-priced resorts that surround an artificial body of water called Hourglass Lake.