ESPN, Orbitz Team On Sports Travel

The worldwide sports leader and the online travel site have a website in development that will literally make it easier to follow a favorite team around during the season. Wives of sports fans, and probably a few husbands of fans, may find their fan spouses planning the next vacation around Pedro Martinez's starts with the Mets instead of around a destination like Disney World. Unless of course, it's spring training when the Braves take residence at Disney in March. At least the hotel rates are pretty reasonable in late winter. The Orbitz and ESPN team-up will enable fans to book hotels and even vacation packages based around sporting events, Dow Jones Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Drag this to your Bookmarks. David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.