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Blake DowlingAugust 2, 2016

On a Wednesday evening in 1988, I joined my friend Quinn Borland for an epic concert in Albany, Georgia. Opening for rock legends Motley Crüe was a little-known band called Guns N’ Roses. I was in middle school, so it was an incredibly big deal to be out on the town on a school night. […]

Scott PowersMay 19, 2016

Bloomberg Sports reported late Thursday that Orlando has won the Pro Bowl sweepstakes and the NFL will move the football all-star game to the City Beautiful starting next January. However, local officials said they were not aware of anything that could confirm the development. Bloomberg cited anonymous sources, contending that the NFL had not made […]

Scott PowersApril 26, 2016

Orlando’s Citrus Bowl is now known as Camping World Stadium. The company that describes itself as the nation’s top retailer of RVs, RV accessories and RV-related services purchased naming rights to the stadium and to a the Kickoff Classic football game, now called the Camping World Kickoff, in a deal announced Tuesday. The new names […]

Scott PowersApril 1, 2016

With Orange County’s bed tax flush from record tourism, Orlando’s tourism community wants to see more of that money spent on tourism marketing, the convention center and area sports and arts venues, including the next phase of construction for the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center. The Central Florida Hotel and Lodging Association and Orlando’s three major […]

Diane RobertsJanuary 6, 2016

Greeting sportsfans, I’m Brent Toast of ESPN, along with former Heisman winner Johnny Twitt. Welcome to the most important event of 2016, the college football national championship! Who will prevail? Will it be the Clemson University Tigers, led by evangelical whackjob Dabo Swinney, or the Crimson Tide of Alabama, coached by gazillionaire and part-time Bond […]

Diane RobertsJanuary 5, 2016

Greeting sportsfans, I’m Brent Toast of ESPN, along with former Heisman winner Johnny Twitt. Welcome to the most important event of 2016, the college football national championship! Who will prevail? Will it be the Clemson University Tigers, led by evangelical whackjob Dabo Swinney, or the Crimson Tide of Alabama, coached by gazillionaire and part-time Bond […]

Associated PressJuly 31, 2015

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Orlando City Soccer officials said Friday that their new downtown stadium is expected to be completed by the end of the 2016 season. As they unveiled the new design for the 25,500-seat stadium, team officials said the privately funded, $155 million facility should be finished within the next 12 to 14 months. That coincides with […]

Associated PressMay 30, 2015

Orlando’s professional soccer team will build a new stadium with private funding, instead of taxpayer money, and the structure will have almost 50 percent more seats than the original plan, team officials said Friday Orlando City Soccer Club officials said the revised stadium plan will have up to 28,000 seats, compared to 19,500 seats in […]

Tag: Citrus Bowl

Blake Dowling: Not in this lifetime — tech and the Guns N’ Roses reunion tour

Orlando gets the NFL Pro Bowl

Orlando’s Citrus Bowl renamed ‘Camping World Stadium’

Hotel association, Orlando theme parks pitch for more Orange County tourism tax money

Hey, football fans! How’s Donald Trump gonna do?

Diane Roberts: Hey, football fans! How's Donald Trump gonna do?

Soccer team says Orlando stadium to be completed in 12 to 14 months

Orlando soccer team says it will fund bigger stadium