ESPN360.com broadcasting National Spelling Bee (including three South Floridians)
Want to catch the 82nd Scripps National Spelling Bee, but don’t have access to TV during the day? ESPN360.com is exclusively broadcasting Wednesday’s preliminary round. The broadband sports network, carried for free by Internet Service Providers including AT&T and Verizon, will also broadcast the semifinals on Thursday. ESPN360.com is offering access to schools whose students are participating in the bee.
The 293 students competing in the bee include 11 from Florida. The three South Florida competitors are: Vincent A. Medina, a student at Ramblewood Middle in Coral Springs; Serena Skye Laine-Lobsinger, a home schooled student (representing the Parents Educating Children Home School Association) from West Palm Beach; and Franchesca Cabal-Ugaz, a student at Conchita Espinosa Academy in Miami.
Family and friends can catch them in the preliminary round, which ESPN360.com will begin showing at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday. The semifinals will be simulcast on ESPN360.com and ESPN starting at 10 a.m. Thursday. The finals are scheduled to air on ABC at 8 p.m. Thursday.
CRAIG DAVIS In more than 33 years at the Sun Sentinel, Craig Davis has written about a wide variety of sports topics from baseball to yachting, fishing to triathlons, and also worked as a copy editor and page designer. Recently he reported on local sports, including running, swimming, cycling, equestrian and beach volleyball. He enjoys sports as a participant as well as a spectator, is active in the South Florida running scene plays in the curling club at Saveology Iceplex. This blog offers a glimpse at the business side of sports in the interest of enhancing enjoyment of the games and sporting options as a spectator as well as a participant.
