Event Organizer
- It organizes the following college football bowl games, which are televised on either ESPN or ESPN2: BBVA Compass Bowl; Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl; Bell Helicopters Armed Forces Bowl; Maaco Bowl Las Vegas; Gildan New Mexico Bowl; Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas and the Sheraton Hawaiʻi Bowl. Most of these games (except the Armed Forces, BBVA Compass and Texas Bowls) are usually held before Christmas and until 2006 were branded under the name "Bowl Road Trip," while ESPN telecasts after Christmas were referred to as "Capital One Bowl Week." (As of the 2007 bowl season, however, Bowl Week now covers all non-BCS games shown on ESPN, ESPN2, or ABC.)
- It also organizes the MEAC/SWAC Challenge presented by Disney, a regular season game between teams representing two conferences of historically black colleges and universities in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision.
- ESPN Plus also organizes the following college basketball events: the DirecTV Classic in Anaheim, the Champions Classic, the Charleston Classic in South Carolina, the Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Old Spice Classic held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, the Puerto Rico Tip-Off held in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, and the SEARS BracketBusters games held in February each year. Most games in these tournaments are shown on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU; those not shown on television air on ESPN3
- In golf, ERT produced the PGA Tour's LG Skins Game and the Champions Tour's Wendy's Champions Skins Game, which aired on ABC and ESPN2 respectively. ERT also organizes the National Golf Challenge for amateur players.
- ESPN+ also produces the Warrior Lacrosse Challenge.
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