Bad news this morning.

Orlando Sentinel sports reporter (and CFABJ member) Kyle Hightower reports that Disney is ending its sponsorship of the annual Florida Classic football game between Bethune-Cookman University and Florida A&M University.

The game needs a new sponsor. Disney sponsored it for 10 years, to the tune of $2.7 million.

Disney partner ESPN is, however, bringing another big HBCU game to Orlando: the MEAC/SWAC Challenge.

In other dispiriting news, Dick Prince of Journal-isms reports that MetPro has stopped training copy editors — for now, at least.

MetPro has trained more than 200 minority reporters and editors during the past 20 years. It’s said that the change is the result of a decentralization of the role Tribune Co., owner of the Orlando Sentinel, is playing in shaping the program.