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Photo for Headline Surfer® / Skipper Norman Church had history on his side and perhaps a little faith Sunday as he repeated as champion in the 2013 Lipton Cup Regatta.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Norman Church was obsessed with winning the Lipton Cup Regatta off the Atlantic waters of New Smyrna Beach. So much so that he skippered "Obsession" into victory April 14 in the Spinnaker Class.

The regatta was held during that weekend with the first day much rougher going in the choppy waters.

Church's Lipton Cup victory comes in at No. 75 in the Headline Surfer® countdown of the top 100 stories of 2013.

DAYTONA BEACH --Alex Gurney drove the No. 99 Corvette DP to the pole position for Saturday's start of the Rolex 24 At Daytona, the season-opening event for the IMSA TUDOR United SportsCar Championship.

New facility opening here in January 2016

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DAYTONA BEACH -- The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America is moving its operations and memorabilia in two years from Detroit to Daytona International Speedway.

The move coincides with the scheduled January 2016 completion of Daytona Rising, the Speedway's $400 million front stretch renovation project currently underway.

NEWSMAKER Q&A: Dr. L. Ronald Durham

Headline Surfer® interviewed  Dr. L. Ronald Durham (shown here), the senior pastor of the Greater Friendship Baptist Church of Daytona Beach, on the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday and the non-violence espoused by the civil rights leader back then with the message carried forward today in a 21st-century world.

DAYTONA BEACH -- And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

Search for 'Richard Sherman Fox Sports' puts Headline Surfer on first page

Headline Surfer® graphic / The AFC and NFC Championship games that saw the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks advance to the Super Bowl was a big story. So was the post-game rant of Seattle DB Richard Sherman.

LAKE MARY, Fla. -- There's no doubt that HeadlineSurfer.com may very well be the smallest media outlet worldwide, but it nonetheless trends well in the major search engines as demonstrated by its showing in the post-game analysis of Seattle Seahawks defensive bcd Richard Sherman's post-game rant on Fox Sports immediately following the game.

LAKE MARY, Fla. -- How many of you out there in TV land watching the fast-paced post game with the Seattle' s thrilling victory over the San Francisco 49ers were sickened by defensive back Richard Sherman's rant with Fox's Erin Andrews?

Photo for Headline Surfer® / Officials with the Florida Professional Firefighters, Marsh Gilbert, Gary Rainey, its president; and Robert Suarez (shown far right),  surround Democratic Statehouse lawmaker Dwayne Taylor as he receives their 'Legislator of the Year' award.

DAYTONA BEACH -- State Rep. Dwayne Taylor, D-Daytona Beach, received the Florida Professional Firefighters' 2013 "Legislator of the Year" award during the 69th annual conference on June 6, for professional firefighters in June at the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort.