Golf Channel’s popular Big Break series returns for a 12th season to a magical setting that will make one contestant’s dream of playing on the PGA TOUR come true. With it’s headquarters in Orlando, it only makes sense for Golf Channel to bring its popular… Read More »Golf Channel’s Big Break Reality TV comes to Disney World
This whole week Disney’s Wide World of Sports is given over to the inaugural ESPN Rise Games. ESPN Rise is the sports channel’s attempt to unify all their coverage of competitive and elite amateur sports under one brand. The ESPN Rise games is the real… Read More »Inaugural ESPN Rise Games kick off at Disney’s Wide World of Sports
The 2010 season of Formula 1 is threatened due to a split between the car owners and the officiating body for the series. But that’s not the reason Disney gave for not wanting to sponsor an F1 team based in the US. Instead Disney reportedly… Read More »Disney unwilling to enter F1
The Walt Disney Company and Google have announced a deal for putting Disney owned short clips (mostly from ABC and ESPN) and videos up on YouTube. This isn’t the same TV and Movie content deal that Disney is rumored to be negotiating with Hulu, rather… Read More »Disney cements deal with Google for YouTube Short Subjects
Mickey Mouse warms up with Super Bowl XLIII MVP Santonio Holmes (left) and 1999 National League MVP Chipper Jones (right) as they exchange their #10 jerseys and autographs March 27, 2009 at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex. Jones, who plays third base for the… Read More »Santonio Holmes and Chipper Jones at Disney’s Wide World of Sports
Robert Niles at Theme Park Insider writes passionately about why it’s important not to stop attending your local theme park just because you read in the news that it is struggling financially. Robert is specifically talking about Six Flags, but it applies to all regional… Read More »Save Your Local Theme Park?
It looks like Walt Disney World Sports has a hit on their hands with the new Princess Half Marathon Weekend. Congratulations to Liza Galvan of San Antonio for winning the inaugural event. The weekend featured other runs and events which attracted more than 11,000 runners making it one of the largest endurance race weekends geared towards women.
Above participants in the Royal Family 5K pose with Beauty and the Beast prior to race during Disney’s Princess Half Marathon Weekend at Walt Disney World. Thousands of women from every U.S. state and 17 other countries took part in the inaugural event that is part of a three-day celebration of women’s health and fitness. (Todd Anderson, photographer)
The full press release is below the cut:
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click for larger version New York Yankees pitchers C.C. Sabathia (left) and Joba Chamberlain (right) experience the “Toy Story Midway Mania!” 3-D attraction March 1, 2009 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. The two hurlers were at Walt Disney World Resort for “ESPN The Weekend,” a special… Read More »New York Yankees pitchers C.C. Sabathia and Joba Chamberlain experience three dimensions of fun on Toy Story Midway Mania!