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The Florida Citrus Bowl is a stadium in Orlando located near the city's Parramore community. It seats about 70,000 people, and is best known as host to the Capitol One Bowl, the Champs Sports Bowl and the annual Florida Classic football game between Florida A&M University and Bethune-Cookman University. The stadium opened in 1936 and has been renovated several times since. The Citrus Bowl, which was the home field for the University of Central Florida Knights football team until 2006, is part of a $1.1 billion plan to renovate three widely used facilities in downtown Orlando. The downtown expansion plan also includes a new arena for the Orlando Magic basketball team and a performing-arts cen...
The Florida Citrus Bowl is a stadium in Orlando located near the city's Parramore community. It seats about 70,000 people, and is best known as host to the Capitol One Bowl, the Champs Sports Bowl and the annual Florida Classic football game between Florida A&M University and Bethune-Cookman University. The stadium opened in 1936 and has been renovated several times since. The Citrus Bowl, which was the home field for the University of Central Florida Knights football team until 2006, is part of a $1.1 billion plan to renovate three widely used facilities in downtown Orlando. The downtown expansion plan also includes a new arena for the Orlando Magic basketball team and a performing-arts center. The Citrus Bowl is also a popular site for concerts and other large community events.
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Ex-Arizona State coach Bruce Snyder dies
The Associated PressBruce Snyder, whose 20-year career as a college football coach included an unbeaten regular season at Arizona State, has died after a 10-month fight against cancer. Snyder, who was 69, died at his Phoenix home Monday, the university said. He coached...Tags: Erik Flowers, Colleges and Universities, Jason Simmons, Todd Heap, Chicago Bears
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Orton taps bad side to raise upside
Sun reporterA lot of the bad guys of pro wrestling aren't really bad guys at all. They just play them on TV. World Wrestling Entertainment champion Randy Orton, however, says the arrogant jerk that he portrays on WWE television shows has never been that much of a...Tags: WrestleMania, Hulk Hogan, Wrestling, Television, VH1 (tv network)
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Citrus Bowl, Florida prisons: Let's save tax money on both
Today we're talking about two very different topics with a common goal — saving taxpayers money.
Let's start with the Florida Citrus Bowl, where sports boosters have been begging for bucks for more than a decade.
Depending upon when you talked...Tags: Executive Branch, Prisons, Ellyn Bogdanoff, U.S. Senate, Republican Party
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Citrus Bowl boosters wary of scaling back stadium fixes
Three years after renovation of the Florida Citrus Bowl was to begin, Orlando officials still have had no discussion of splitting the work into phases, shrinking the original plan or other ways of reviving the stalled project.
Financial roadblocks...Tags: Finance, Florida Classic, Orange County (Florida), Allen Johnson, Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center
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Orlando City can't hold lead, ties Los Angeles 1-1
The Orlando City Soccer Club settled for a 1-1 draw on Thursday against the Los Angeles Blues in front of an announced crowd of 7,231 at the Florida Citrus Bowl.
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College football's latest move could hurt Orlando's bowl future
The decision by the Southeastern Conference and Big 12 to form a new bowl game made waves throughout the college-football landscape Friday. Those waves have down all the way to Orlando. The Capital One Bowl, which plays its games at the Florida Citrus...Tags: College Sports, Atlantic Coast Conference, Big 12 Conference, Gator Bowl, Sugar Bowl
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Mike Bianchi: Orlando's dumpy Citrus Bowl has no chance at SEC-Big 12 mega-game
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The Southeastern Conference and the Big 12 announced Friday the formation of a new bowl game that will pit the champions of the two conferences against each other at a site to be named later. It will be an annual...Tags: ESPN (tv network), Orlando Magic, Dwyane Wade, Barack Obama, Big Ten Conference
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Mayors Dyer, Jacobs to meet soon on Citrus Bowl upgrades
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs are setting up a meeting likely in early June to discuss ways to jump start $175 million in upgrades to the Florida Citrus Bowl.
Work on renovating general seating, box suites and other...Tags: Lobbying, Orange County (Florida), Buddy Dyer, Teresa Jacobs, Orlando
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Use hotel taxes where needed — not just to lure tourists
Watching the fight between the convention center and Florida Citrus Bowl is like watching Animal Planet, where ravenous beasts battle over a wounded elk.
On one side is the convention crowd — hoteliers and tourism execs who've already built one...Tags: Orlando Hotels, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Orlando
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Jacobs: Fix convention center before Citrus Bowl upgrades
Mayor Teresa Jacobs wants to triple spending to maintain the Orange County Convention Center, a plan that Florida Citrus Bowl boosters fear would dash hope of using tourist taxes to upgrade the 76-year-old stadium anytime soon.
A projected $175 million,...Tags: Orange County Convention Center, Florida Classic, Orange County (Florida), Teresa Jacobs, Champs Sports Bowl
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College-football scandals pale in comparison to FAMU band case
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Sadly, the FAMU band-hazing death that took place during last year's Florida Classic at the Florida Citrus Bowl is, tragically, turning into the biggest intercollegiate-sports scandal this state has ever seen. Band...Tags: The Andy Griffith Show (tv program), Jameer Nelson, Charlotte Bobcats, The Players Championship, NBA Draft
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Citrus Bowl renovation is stalled — here's why
A $175 million Florida Citrus Bowl renovation is stalled. The recession brought drops in property values, a tougher bond market and a credit downgrade, so the city's downtown redevelopment agency that was supposed to issue bonds for the project is...Tags: Bonds, Amway Center
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