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The ESPN Events Invitational (previously the Orlando Invitational, Orlando Classic, Old Spice Classic, and Advocare Invitational) is an annual college basketball tournament played over Thanksgiving weekend—Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. The inaugural tournament was held November 23, 24, and 26, 2006.
ESPN owns a minority interest in the sports network TSN alongside its majority owner Bell Media: in 2011, the company converted four of its stations to a new sports radio network known as TSN Radio. Much like its television counterpart, all four TSN Radio stations also carry programs from ESPN Radio (such as select event coverage, along with ...
Jim McKay. Phil Hill. June 5. First coverage of the Indianapolis 500 on Wide World of Sports after covering the time trials the four previous years. Charlie Brockman. Rodger Ward. June 19. Live coverage via satellite of the 1965 24 Hours of Le Mans. Jim McKay.
The Florida Atlantic men's basketball team opens the 2023 ESPN Events Invitational vs. Butler on Thursday, November 23.
The National Invitation Tournament ( NIT) is an annual men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The tournament is played at regional sites with its Final Four played at Madison Square Garden (MSG) in New York City up until 2022. Starting in 2023, the NIT Final Four began following the ...
ESPN was founded by Bill Rasmussen, his son Scott Rasmussen, then 43 year old eye doctor and Aetna insurance agent Ed Eagan. [ 1] Bill, who had an affinity with sports for much of his life, was fired from his position as the communications manager for the New England Whalers in 1978. [ 1] During his tenure with the hockey team, Rasmussen had ...
The National Invitation Tournament, or NIT, has its selection show 8:30 p.m. Sunday, March 17, with 32 teams set to compete in the postseason tournament.First-round games are set for March 19-20 ...
The corporation organizes sporting events for broadcast across the ESPN family of networks, including, most prominently, a group of college football bowl games and in-season college basketball tournaments. ESPN Events previously operated primarily as a syndicator of college sports broadcasts; the company was founded as Creative Sports, a sports ...