DAYTONA BEACH – Marco Rubio, the Republican junior senator from Florida and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Select Committee on Intelligence, issued a statement today from Washington regarding the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and condemned Russian influence and corruption that he sees as a hindrance to the sovereign peoples in the former Soviet republic.
Videos uploaded from YouTube / DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Joe Gibbs Racing swept the inaugural nighttime running of the Budweiser Duel at Daytona with Matt Kenseth and Denny Hamlin finishing atop the scoring pylon in their respective 150-mile qualifying races on Thursday night at Daytona International Speedway.
Kenseth, who led a race-high 31 laps in the first qualifying race, was the victor in a three-wide finish at the checkered flag, edging out Kevin Harvick by .022 seconds with Kasey Kahne a close third.
Photos for Headline Surfer® / Austin Dillon in the No. 3 Chevrolet has the pole for Sunday's Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.DAYTONA BEACH -- Sunday's line-up for the Daytona 500 features the traditional and the non-traditional.
For example, the No. 3 is on the pole. That's tradition, as it was the number of NASCAR's greatest driver, Dale Earnhardt, the 1998 Daytona 500 winner, tragically killed on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500.
Photos for Headline Surfer® / Wikipedia / DAYTONA BEACH -- Johnny Beauchamp won the inaugural Daytona 500 on the high banks of Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 22, 1959, or did he?
There was no Warner Wolfe back then with with "lets go to the videotape," or digital cameras measuring in milliseconds. But there was a photo and it was what NASCAR used to take the win away from Beauchamp and give it to Lee Petty, father of Richard Petty and grandfather of Kyle Petty, beginning a family racing tradition.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Fireball Roberts was the early leader of the 1960 Daytona 500 run on Feb. 14, but he would end up out of the race with engine problems and Junior Johnson took over and won the crash-marred affair.
He started ninth and was at home in North Carolina until a week earlier when he was convinced by Masoni to race. Masoni even supplied him with a car, a 1959 Chevrolet, sponsored by the Daytona Kennel.
ORLANDO -- Victor Oladipo put on a dominating performance in leading the Orlando Magic to a double-overtime win over the New York Knicks at the Amway Arena Friday night.
Oladipo, Orlando's prized rookie small forward, poured in 30 points, a career-high 14 assists and nine rounds for the near-triple double in leading the Magic to a 129-121 win.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Yes, there is ample growth occurring in Daytona Beach, and politicians are coming out of the woodwork to blow the trumpet. Yet they are silent on the creation of creating jobs that pay middle-class wages and violent crime that has plagued Daytona Beach -- mainland and beachside alike.
Photo for Headline Surfer® / Rolando Roman has safely returned home after being missing for more than a week.KISSIMMEE, Fla. – A 43-year-old man reported missing eight days and considered endangered has safety returned home, Kissimmee cops re[ported today.
Rolando Roman, who was last seen 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, in the area of Boggy Creek Road and Buena Ventura Lakes Boulevard, returned home safely earlier today, Kissimmee police spokeswoman Stacie Miller told Headline Surfer at 11:45 a.m.
DAYTONA BEACH -- This certainly wasn't one of my finest moments in a long, distinguished journalism career, but it's better to be honest than to pretend otherwise: Fresh off his thrilling victory in the Nationwide race earlier today at Daytona International Speedway, I asked Regan Smith how he liked his chances for a repeat in Sunday's Daytona 500 as one of 43 drivers in the field.
