ESPN plans to move college basketball events to ESPN Wide World of Sports
Walt Disney World may be about to host more sports events following the success of MLS and NBA.
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News ESPN plans to move college basketball events to ESPN Wide World of Sports
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surfsupdon
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Good. Great to see. Now give me my runDisney events!
MrPromey
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Quick, someone call Bob and let him know how much money they stand to make by requiring a 14 day on-property quaranteen period for people to enter the Run-Disney-Bubble!
NelleBelle
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Ugh— if this happens, do we have a guess where they’re going to be lodged and for how long ( and when)??
Tha Realest
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It looks like these are those preseason invitationals they have. Usually a few days, maybe a week tops. Often over holidays (Thanksgiving to early December)
ToTBellHop
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They’re college kids. All-Stars will do.
FeelsSoGoodToBeBad
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My first thought was that March Madness would further complicate (crowd) Spring Break, but that's my selfish concerns raising their ugly head. Reading the ... blurb?..... that doesn't seem to be the case, though. 
Magic Feather
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The issue is that whenever Disney opens a resort for a sports team, they don’t want to have to reclose it, so they would just open it to the public. Disney isn’t really wanting to add a lot more to their hotel line up atm.
ToTBellHop
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There’s the CP dorms...
That's actually not a bad idea. Maybe the CP cast who support the defunct program WDW who maybe on furlough could now be employed.
NelleBelle
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I know! This was my first thought thought, tooMy first thought was that March Madness would further complicate (crowd) Spring Break, but that's my selfish concerns raising their ugly head. Reading the ... blurb?..... that doesn't seem to be the case, though.
But I think we’ve decided to go late enough that we won’t encounter this (we were initially tossing around March but I think we are definitely thinking May). It’s one thing if they open All Star resorts but a potential annoyance if they don’t (thinking of when NBA played—only worse as it’s college kids with no self control as we’ve seen lately). 
Figments Friend
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The Good Year Blimp has been cruising the skies above Pop Century for the last four nights I have been staying here.
Kinda cool to see it up there circling the ESPN Sports Complex.
I would post a photo I snapped, but not able to at the moment.
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Kinda cool to see it up there circling the ESPN Sports Complex.
I would post a photo I snapped, but not able to at the moment.
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LorangeJuice
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Following for the blimp pics. 
HauntedMansionFLA
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Hopefully this is still happening
"ESPN is canceling plans to host eight of its men's college basketball events at one location in Orlando, Florida.
ESPN had planned to move eight of its 10 nonconference events to the ESPN Wide World of Sports property at Walt Disney World in Orlando, including the Champions Classic, Charleston Classic, Myrtle Beach Invitational, NIT Season Tip-Off, Wooden Legacy, Orlando Invitational, Jimmy V Classic and Diamond Head Classic.
The ESPN Wide World of Sports was the site for the NBA's bubble."
"ESPN Events set out to create a protected environment for teams to participate in early-season events in Orlando," an official statement from ESPN said. "Based on certain challenges surrounding testing protocols, we opted to resume these tournaments during the 2021-22 season."
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ESPN had planned to move eight of its 10 nonconference events to the ESPN Wide World of Sports property at Walt Disney World in Orlando, including the Champions Classic, Charleston Classic, Myrtle Beach Invitational, NIT Season Tip-Off, Wooden Legacy, Orlando Invitational, Jimmy V Classic and Diamond Head Classic.
The ESPN Wide World of Sports was the site for the NBA's bubble."
"ESPN Events set out to create a protected environment for teams to participate in early-season events in Orlando," an official statement from ESPN said. "Based on certain challenges surrounding testing protocols, we opted to resume these tournaments during the 2021-22 season."
ESPN nixes plans to host hoops events at Disney
ESPN is canceling plans to host eight of its men's college basketball events at the ESPN Wide World of Sports property at Walt Disney World, which was the site for the NBA's bubble.