FC Barcelona soccer star Leo Messi is continuing his celebration of his team’s UEFA Champions League title by spending a week at Walt Disney World near Orlando, FL. Messi, one of the sport’s biggest stars, is experiencing many of Disney’s attractions, including visiting Disney’s Wide… Read More »Argentine soccer star Leo Messi meets Mickey Mouse
One of the advantages of having a world class training facility on your property is that world class teams want to come and practice there. For Disney’s Wide World of Sports at Walt Disney World Resort that means the Atlanta Braves for Baseball and Chelsea… Read More »Chelsea FC and Disney sponsor Soccer Showcase Team
Just a quick follow up on a story from last week. It was reported that ESPN had bid $125 million for rights to broadcast the NCAA Division I College Football Bowl Championship Series on the cable channel. Turns out that was for just one year.… Read More »Disney’s ABC/ESPN is now the home for College Football Bowl Championship Series
Disney’s ESPN cable sports network brand is making a bid to become a big player in the Bowl Championship Series. Disney made a reported $125 million bid for the rights to the complete Bowl Championship Series, the five annual contests — the Orange, Sugar, Fiesta… Read More »ESPN places $125 million bid for rights to College Football Championship
Anaheim and Orlando may not rank for professional football teams, but doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun here at The Disney Blog. I’ve opened up a game of Pigskin Pick’em on ESPN.com and hope readers of The Disney Blog will set up a… Read More »Fantasy Football on The Disney Blog
SportsBiz Blog notes that the NFL and ESPN are in talks to show some NFL Network programming (mostly the NFL games that the network has exclusive rights to) on the ESPN Classic channel. This performs an end-run around various cable operators who have been balking… Read More »ESPN & The NFL Network in talks
I’ll believe it when I see it, but it appears NY Giants Quarterback and Most Valuable Player of the NFL’s Superbowl, will finally make his promised trip to Disneyland. Brady MacDonald of the LA Times reports that the recently married Manning and his bride, and… Read More »Eli Manning, Superbowl Most Absent Player, to finally visit Disneyland?
We’re still waiting to find out if Super bowl MVP Eli Manning really meant it when he said "I’m Going To Disneyland". We’re more than a month onward and he still hasn’t found time to honor his promise. The LA Times is now reporting that… Read More »Eli Manning planning a Victory Parade at Disneyland after all