Central Florida Sports Fans – visitors and residents alike – will have something to cheer about in 2007 with the popular spectator sports as the Orlando Magic National Assembly Basketball Association (NBA), Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League (AFL) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) Golden Knights football team. Orlando is also full of baseball action during spring training that the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros coming to town this Spring and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers field training in late July.
The Orlando Magic play all their home games at the 17,500 total tickets Amway Arena (formerly TD Waterhouse Center) in downtown Orlando. Founded in 1989, the Orlando Magic to an agreement the NBA Finals during the 1994-95 season. Many of the basketball superstars played for the Orlando Magic In recent years, as Shaquille O'Neal, Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway and Tracy McGrady. The current archive Dwight Howard Orlando Magic includes Grant Hill, Jameer Nelson and JJ Redick. Brian Hill is the coach of the Orlando Magic to compete in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference. Magic of the 2006-07 regular season ends April 18, 2007, against the Miami Heat. Construction of a new, 20,000-seat Arena Orlando Magic in Orlando, is scheduled to begin in early 2008.
Founded in 1991, Orlando Predators, who captured the Arena Bowl Championship in 2000, competition in the 19-team AFL. Predators to the playoffs 15 years in a row and compete in the NFC South against the likes of the Austin Wranglers, Dallas Desperados, Georgia Force, Las Vegas Gladiators New Orleans VooDoo and Tampa Bay Storm. The 16-includes eight games of regular season at Amway Arena (also known as "The Jungle") and runs from early February to May End is the coach Jay Gruden the Orlando Predators, who ended the 2006 season in the AFL with a record of 10-6 and lost to Chicago in ArenaBowl XX. Predators opened the 2007 season, March 2, 2007, against Tampa Bay Storm.
The team at the UCF Golden Knights football participates in the Conference USA against teams like East Carolina University, Marshall University, Rice University, Southern Methodist University, Tulane University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Houston, University of Memphis, University of Southern Mississippi, University of Texas-El Paso and the University of Tulsa. George O'Leary is the head coach of the Golden Knights, who finished with a record of 4-8 during the 2006 season. The Golden Knights used their home games played in the Citrus Bowl in downtown Orlando, but a new stadium is currently under Building on the campus of UCF. The 45,000 places of Bright House Networks Stadium is to be completed in time for the game of the Golden Knights home, first against the Longhorns Texas, 15 September 2007.
Central Florida is also the site of Major League Baseball (MLB) spring training, when the Braves Atlanta and Houston Astros arrived in February 2007. The Braves play 16 home games in 7500, the state-of-art at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex, while the Houston Astros on competition in the recently renovated Osceola County Stadium in Kissimmee. The season for Braves spring extends from February 28 to March 29, 2007, while the Astros will be 1 to March 31, Mars 2007. In addition, the 2002 World Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers Training Camp pass to Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex starting in late July. Practices are open to the public and admission is free to Buccaneers training camp.
Other spectator sports to be held in the Orlando area during the next year include the Capital One Florida Citrus Bowl, which pits the second largest university teams Southeast football and Big Ten conferences at the Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium on New Year's Day, the Silver Spurs Rodeo, the largest rodeo east of the Mississippi, which takes place at Silver Spurs Rodeo in Kissimmee February 16-18, 2007, and the Arnold Palmer Invitational Bay Hill Club (March 12-18, 2007) and Walt Disney World Resort Classic (November 1-4, 2007), two tournaments very popular course that attracts some of the world's best professional level golfers on the PGA Tour.
Orlando visitors should plan in advance and before tickets for sporting events who wish to attend during their stay, according to Kyle Collins, director of interactive marketing for HotelsCorp.com.
"Tickets to sporting events and theme park tickets can often be added to discount vacation packages, which allows families to enjoy of significant savings on your vacation in Orlando, Collins said.
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