B-Roll and Soundbites: "Green Carpet" Premiere at ESPN Wide World of Sports
February 28, 2010 by admin
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On Thursday, February 25, celebrity athletes such as Chad Ochocinco (Cincinnati Bengals), Shawn Johnson (Olympic Gold Medalist), Jennie Finch (Olympic softball gold medalist), Santonio Holmes (Steelers 2009 Super Bowl MVP), Chipper Jones (Atlanta Braves) and Annika Sorenstram (LPGA) are helping Disney and ESPN take youth sports to the next level! The widely acclaimed sports facility at Disney will re-launch as ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.
This major event will feature celebrity athletes walking the “Green Carpet” painted with yard lines to resemble a football field and a visual dedication moment with Disney characters, music, confetti and fireworks. New Orleans Saints kicker and Super Bowl Champion Garrett Hartley will literally kick-off the dedication moment.
The re-launch will allow Disney and ESPN to provide an immersive sports experience for the more than 2 million athletes, coaches and fans from around the world who come to the complex each year. Technological changes and signature elements from ESPN will ensure that when athletes compete at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex they feel as if they have made it to the “big time”.
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Package: "Green Carpet" Premiere at ESPN Wide World of Sports
February 28, 2010 by admin
Filed under USA/Canada
On Thursday, February 25, celebrity athletes such as Chad Ochocinco (Cincinnati Bengals), Shawn Johnson (Olympic Gold Medalist), Jennie Finch (Olympic softball gold medalist), Santonio Holmes (Steelers 2009 Super Bowl MVP), Chipper Jones (Atlanta Braves) and Annika Sorenstram (LPGA) are helping Disney and ESPN take youth sports to the next level! The widely acclaimed sports facility at Disney will re-launch as ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.
This major event will feature celebrity athletes walking the “Green Carpet” painted with yard lines to resemble a football field and a visual dedication moment with Disney characters, music, confetti and fireworks. New Orleans Saints kicker and Super Bowl Champion Garrett Hartley will literally kick-off the dedication moment.
The re-launch will allow Disney and ESPN to provide an immersive sports experience for the more than 2 million athletes, coaches and fans from around the world who come to the complex each year. Technological changes and signature elements from ESPN will ensure that when athletes compete at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex they feel as if they have made it to the “big time”.
- SOT’s
- :15 Meg Crofton
- :40 Chad Ochocinco
- 1:04 Garrett Hartley
- 1:25 Ken Potrock
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ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex re-launches Feb. 25, 2010 in gala ceremony
February 28, 2010 by admin
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GET YOUR KICKS: Garrett Hartley, place-kicker for the Super Bowl XLIV champion New Orleans Saints, kicks a football Feb. 25, 2010 over the entrance archway to the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Hartley’s kick was the official “relaunching” moment during a gala ceremony held for the 220-acre, international sports venue. Hartley joined more than 50 sports celebrities for the red carpet-style event at Walt Disney World Resort. (Garth Vaughan, photographer)
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America’s Youth Athletes to Enter All New ‘World’ at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Disney
February 28, 2010 by admin
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (Feb. 25, 2010) – The widely acclaimed sports facility at Walt Disney World Resort was officially re-launched as ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex on Thursday, Feb. 25, in an elaborate Hollywood-style “turf carpet” event that featured celebrities, Florida’s governor, ESPN on-air commentators and sports stars from the NFL, MLB, LPGA, Olympics and more.
Shawn Johnson (Olympic gold medal gymnast), Chad Ochocinco (Cincinnati Bengals), Jennie Finch (Olympic softball gold medalist), Santonio Holmes (Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl MVP) and Annika Sorenstam (LPGA) were among the star athletes who joined popular ESPN on-air personalities on the red carpet that was painted green with yard lines to resemble a football field. Florida governor Charlie Crist and senior executives from Disney and ESPN officially re-launched the 220-acre sports complex as Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints kicker Garrett Hartley booted a football over the re-designed complex entrance amid fireworks and a sea of confetti. Immediately afterwards, Mickey Mouse led a throng of youth and pro athletes – representing the 60-plus sports held at the complex – through a huge ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex banner draped over the entrance.
Afterwards, the celebrities, athletes and ESPN personalities attended a special reception at the complex’s re-themed ESPN Wide World of Sports Grill, followed by a special performance by the Harlem Globetrotters that featured Hartley, Sorenstam, Maurice Jones-Drew, Brandi Chastain and ESPN radio personalities Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic, who served as honorary assistant coaches. The game, called by ESPN’s “SportsNation” co-hosts Colin Cowherd and Michelle Beadle, airs Friday on ESPN2.
“At ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, we are giving America’s youth athletes a one-of-a-kind youth sports experience that leaves them feeling as if they have reached the big time and made it onto ESPN,” said Ken Potrock, senior vice president of Disney Sports Enterprises. “Our goal is to ensure that the millions of athletes, coaches and fans who come through this sports complex at Walt Disney World Resort will walk in loving sports and walk out knowing that sports loves them back.”
The re-imagined ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex is taking youth sports to the next level by providing an immersive sports experience for the more than 2 million athletes, coaches and fans who come to the complex each year, while also connecting them to their favorite ESPN programs, personalities and elements. It also provides advertisers a new platform to reach the youth sports market.
As part of the project, Disney and ESPN have added many technological and experiential enhancements designed to replicate the signature elements of ESPN throughout the complex, including 56 high-definition cameras (42 robotic, 10 handheld and four studio), 40 high-definition video screens at 17 locations (including three jumbo screens) and a 2,500-square-foot Production Center with links to ESPN facilities in Bristol, Conn., New York and Los Angeles. Also, there is a 20-zone audio system, a welcome center, a huge complex marquee and the Innovation Lab where the ESPN Emerging Technology group is testing and developing innovative new on-air applications.
“This complex embodies the ESPN and Disney commitment to excellence, ensuring that athletes and their families have the best possible experience,” said George Bodenheimer, president, ESPN, Inc. and ABC Sports and co-chairman, Disney Media Networks. “It is our hope that, win or lose, every athlete who competes at the complex will walk away with lifelong memories.”
The re-imagining of ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex is the latest initiative in the growing sports business at Walt Disney World Resort. In late 2007, the sports complex added additional outdoor playing fields for football, soccer, lacrosse and field hockey competitions. And in 2008, the sports complex opened Jostens Center, a state-of-the-art fieldhouse that allows Disney to accommodate twice as many indoor sports events each year. Additional expansion plans are in development, including a planned 100-lane bowling facility.
Disney Sports annually stages more than 300 events and has accommodated approximately 60 different sports involving athletes from more than 70 countries. Among those events are Atlanta Braves spring training, Chelsea Football Club events, the Pop Warner Super Bowl, AAU National Championships, Varsity Cheer events, the World Cheerleading Championships, the ESPN RISE Games, USSSA events and the Walt Disney World Marathon, one of the top marathons in the nation. ESPN televises dozens of sporting events from the complex, and Walt Disney World Resort and ESPN also annually work together to host the popular ESPN The Weekend presented by Dick’s Sporting Goods event at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and the complex.
And more…
[NOTE: Later this evening, downloadable high-resolution photographs and broadcast-quality video, both b-roll and packages of the official re-imagining of ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex will be available at wdwnews.com, user name: disney, password: magic.]
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ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex re-launches Feb. 25, 2010 in gala ceremony
February 28, 2010 by admin
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GOOD SPORTS: (L-R) Ken Potrock, senior vice president of Disney Sports Enterprises; George Bodenheimer, co-chairman of Disney Media Networks and president of ESPN, Inc. and ABC Sports; Al Weiss, president of worldwide operations for Disney Parks and Resorts; and Meg Crofton, president of Walt Disney World Resort, pose Feb. 25, 2010 with a football-clad Mickey Mouse during the official re-launch ceremony for the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. ESPN Wide World of Sports is a 220-acre international sports complex located at Walt Disney World Resort. (David Roark, photographer)
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ESPN The Weekend Presented by Dick’s Sporting Goods Returns to Walt Disney World Resort Feb. 25-28
February 28, 2010 by admin
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – ESPN and the Walt Disney World Resort are again offering fans the opportunity to see and hear many ESPN personalities, including “Mike & Mike in the Morning” co-hosts Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg, who are celebrating their 10years together next week. In addition, current and legendary athletes on hand include Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco, New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia and former Heisman Trophy winner and current University of South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier. ESPN The Weekend presented by Dick’s Sporting Goods, Feb. 25-28, is a one-of-a-kind sports-themed special event at Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park and the newly re-imagined ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.
ESPN The Weekend will feature on-site telecasts of popular ESPN programs (beginning Thursday, Feb. 25), including “Baseball Tonight,” “First Take,” “Mike & Mike in the Morning,” “NFL Live” and interview segments on “SportsCenter”; motorcades and Q&A sessions with athletes and ESPN personalities; Inside ESPN sports shows with commentators and athletes; live ESPN Radio broadcasts; and the ESPN Sports Zone interactive area. Dick’s Sporting Goods will serve as presenting sponsor of the event for the fourth consecutive year.
To find the latest updates on Twitter for ESPN The Weekend, go to @DisneySports and search #ESPNWKND.
For more information on ESPN The Weekend at Walt Disney World Resort and to book travel, visit www.espntheweekend.com.
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Champion opens store at ESPN Wide World of Sports
February 28, 2010 by admin
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Champion is joining the team at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. The sporting goods company is opening a Custom Tee Center where you can have your event t-shirt personalized with a custom design to celebrate your accomplishments.
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China Travel Report by Colin and Kathy
I would like to begin with complementing China highlights Grace on an excellent job on organizing and arranging the itinerary for our memorable Time in China.
Our itinerary was for 32 days that covered a greater proportion of China so the wife and I would see a wide variety of countryside and cities that also included the Chinese culture and history. It is difficult to pin point one single highlight during the tour because of the input we had during the time the itinerary was being developed wi…
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