Tag: ESPN: The Weekend

  • ESPN’s Trey Wingo Runs Through Disney’s Hollywood Studios

    Part of the activities of ESPN: The Weekend included the Champion 5k race held Saturday, March 5th through the streets of Disney’s Hollywood Studios.  runDisney billed this race as a blending of Sports and Hollywood, and there were certainly plenty of athletes as well as ESPN personalities on hand.  In fact, ESPN broadcaster Trey Wingo shot video along…

  • Greeny and Golic Talk Disney’s ESPN: The Weekend with the DIS

    Spring is in the air at Walt Disney World, and the International Flower and Garden Festival has opened with the theme “Epcot Springs to Life.”  Well another Disney theme park is also “springing” to life as Disney’s Hollywood Studios hosts its 8th Annual ESPN the Weekend March 3rd – 6th.  The co-hosts of the event, ESPN’s Mike…

  • A rookie’s view of ESPN the Weekend at Disney World

    The following post is from my husband David, who attended ESPN the Weekend, a weekend-long festival for fans of ESPN and professional sports:

  • “Green Carpet” event at the ESPN Wide World of Sports at Disney World

    ESPN Wide World of Sports Grand Opening Green Carpet. This video includes some or all of the following sports stars and ESPN personalities: Monica Abbott, Mike Alstott, Nick Anderson, Juan Pablo Angel, Brandi Chastain, Brian Ching, Bobby Cox, Brian Dawkins, Dwayne De Rosario, Jennie Finch, Josh Freeman, Darrell Green, Garrett Hartley, Santonio Holmes, Shawn Johnson,…

  • Disney “Re-Brands” State-of-the-Art Sports Complex

    Disney is putting the finishing touches on their Wide World of Sports Complex; “re-branding” the facility the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex (ESPN WWoS) in a push to make the venue one of the premier destinations for amateur and youth sports in the country.   On Thursday, February 25, 2010, a red-carpet opening ceremony with…