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ESPN Events is an American sporting event planning division that is owned by ESPN Inc. ESPN Inc. is a joint venture between the Disney–ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and the Hearst Corporation (which owns the remaining 20%).

ESPN Events is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and shares its operations with ESPNU.

The corporation organizes sporting events for broadcast across the ESPN family of networks, including, most prominently, a group of college football bowl games and in-season college basketball tournaments.

College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities.

It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.

No minor league farm organizations exist in American football.

Therefore, college football is generally considered to be the second tier of American football in the United States; one step ahead of high school competition, and one step below professional competition.

It is in college football where a player's performance directly impacts his chances of playing professional football.

The best collegiate players will typically declare for the professional draft after 3 to 4 years of collegiate competition, with the NFL holding its annual draft every spring.

256 players are selected annually.

Those not selected can still attempt to land an NFL roster spot as an undrafted free agent.

College softball is softball as played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education, predominantly in the United States.

College softball is normally played by women at the Intercollegiate level, whereas college baseball is normally played by men.

The history of basketball is traced back to a YMCA International Training School, known today as Springfield College, located in Springfield, Massachusetts.

The sport was created by a physical education teacher named James Naismith, who in the winter of 1891 was given the task of creating a game that would keep track athletes in shape and that would prevent them from getting hurt a lot.

The date of the first formal basketball game played at the Springfield YMCA Training School under Naismith's rules is generally given as December 21, 1891.

Basketball began to spread to college campuses by 1893.