Miscellany
- The 1971 Woody Allen film Bananas featured two parodies of Wide World of Sports, featuring cameo appearances by Don Dunphy and Howard Cosell.
- The album version of an early-1970s Cheech and Chong hit song called "Basketball Jones" (a parody of a rhythm and blues number called "Love Jones") contained a prologue that parodied this program. It was called "White" World of Sports and featured a not-too-bright commentator named "Red Blazer".
- An anachronistic joke early in the 1974 western film parody, Blazing Saddles, had Slim Pickens yelling at his railroad crew, "What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is a-goin' on here?"
- The Muppet Show had a parody segment, the "Muppet Wide World of Sports", which spoofed McKay and the opening.
- On a 1985 episode of Wheel of Fortune, a contestant lost $62,400 on the puzzle "THE THRILL OF VICTORY AND THE AGONY OF DEFEAT" when she asked for an "S". Had she solved the puzzle and won the $62,400, that would have set a record which would have remained the single-round maingame record today.
- Walt Disney World's athletic facility is named ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex (originally Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex from its opening in 1997 until 2010). The Walt Disney Company acquired ABC, and a majority stake in ESPN, in 1996.
- In 2007, Time Magazine named ABC's Wide World of Sports as one of 100 all-time TV shows.
- Weekend updates on ABC Sports Radio, of the ABC Radio Networks, continue to brand as ABC's World of Sports.
- A segment on ESPNU's The Herd is called "Spanning the Globe" which also featured Jim McKay's voice saying "Spanning The Globe."
- In 2011, ESPN's Kenny Mayne starred in his own internet show called Kenny Mayne's Wider World of Sports with Kenny's face overlapping the ABC logo.
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