A SIDEWAYS GLANCE : BALLFIELDS IN MICKEY'S BACKYARD.When the Disney World sports complex formally opens next spring near Orlando, Fla., it will boast the nation's only double-deck spring training park, for the Atlanta Braves (play starting in '98). Also a 5,500-seat, multipurpose field house, a tennis complex with a 10,000-seat center court, track and field complex, soccer fields, beach-volleyball courts, the velodrome ve·lo·drome n. A sports arena with a banked oval track for bicycle and motorcycle racing. [French vélodrome, blend of vélocipède, velocipede; see velocipede, and used in the Atlanta Olympics plus state-of-the-art venues for more than 30 professional and amateur sports. Officially, they're calling the place Disney's Wide World of Sports Wide World of Sports can refer to:
Battling an infestation infestation /in·fes·ta·tion/ (-fes-ta´shun) parasitic attack or subsistence on the skin and/or its appendages, as by insects, mites, or ticks; sometimes used to denote parasitic invasion of the organs and tissues, as by helminths. Cal football coach Steve Mariucci has mounted a campaign to keep agents away from his players. But, as former Cal quarterback Mike Pawlawski said, the competition among agents is fierce ``because there are more of them than players graduating to the pros every year.'' Bears quarterback Pat Barnes said agents frequently phone him at home. He refers all calls to his brother, John, a former UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX quarterback living in Mission Viejo and working in the food-accessory business. ``They get hold of your phone number and try to befriend be·friend tr.v. be·friend·ed, be·friend·ing, be·friends To behave as a friend to. befriend Verb to become a friend to Verb 1. you,'' USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. quarterback Brad Otton said. ``They're around days of games. Coach (John) Robinson can't know what everyone is doing 24 hours a day.'' Expensive change of plans The San Diego Zoo San Diego Zoo One of the world's largest collections of mammals, birds, and reptiles, located in San Diego, Calif., and administered by the Zoological Society of San Diego. The 100-acre (40. - a.k.a., San Diego State football, 1996 - offers this latest chapter to a season of horror: Not only will the Aztecs' game with Hawaii remain on Friday at Jack Murphy Stadium - even with the San Diego Padres no longer needing the facility - the university will supplement the Rainbows' expenses to the tune of roughly $100,000. As part of the recent agreement to move the game from Saturday to Friday, San Diego State is paying the difference that it will cost the Rainbows to fly charter instead of their normal commercial airfare. Hawaii officials rejected San Diego State's offer to move the game back to Saturday after the Padres were eliminated from the playoffs, saying they didn't have time to remake the arrangements again. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: No Caption (Mickey Mouse) |
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