Sports
Downtown is home to the Amway Center which hosts the Orlando Magic NBA team and the Orlando Predators Arena Football League team. The Florida Citrus Bowl hosts The Capital One Bowl in addition to other events year round. Tinker Field is a historic ballpark next to the Citrus Bowl. The Orlando Solar Bears will return to the ice in 2012 as a member of the East Coast Hockey League ( ECHL )
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)