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Orlando has no NFL, MLB or NHL franchise, and visitors are often surprised by how much pro sport the city still packs into a season. Basketball, soccer, hockey, spring football and volleyball all have top-level or near-top-level teams here, and the University of Central Florida adds Big 12 college sports on top. Orlando professional…

The ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex is a multi-sport campus on Walt Disney World property, southwest of Orlando. Most of the year it runs as a giant venue for youth and amateur sport: travel baseball, cheerleading, AAU basketball, volleyball and track. Several times a year it also hosts pro events and national championships,…

Seven venues carry most of the region’s sport. Three sit within walking distance of each other in downtown Orlando, two more are on the UCF campus in the east of the city, one takes over an entire theme park resort, and the largest is an hour away in Daytona Beach and holds around 100,000…

Central Florida runs a sports calendar that doesn’t stop. Between Orlando City and the Pride at Inter&Co Stadium, UCF football at the Acrisure Bounce House, the Magic at Kia Center, bowl season at Camping World Stadium and NASCAR up the road in Daytona, there’s a professional or Division I event in the region most…