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After completing a major overhaul, Daytona International Speedway is looking to jumpstart growth in motorsports and beyond. Continue Reading Below Daytona owner International Speedway Corp. (ISCA) has revamped the iconic racetrack from its aging grandstands to the technology available to fans. The project known as Daytona Rising was finished in time for NASCAR’s season opener, the Daytona 500 on Feb. 21. Through Daytona Rising, ISC wanted to rethink the…

Buy Photo A view of Tuckahoe Turf Farms in Hammonton which hosts soccer events. 02.10.16(Photo: Chris LaChall/Staff Photographer)Buy Photo HAMMONTON – Soccer goals are scattered about the landscape of the Tuckahoe Turf Farm in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Some of the netting-covered goal posts are upright in barren sandy fields, while others are overturned, all awaiting use on fields of green sod when soccer tournaments return this spring to the 700-acre preserved farm. But…

Chris Buescher celebrates after clinching the 2015 NASCAR Xfinity Series championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway.(Photo: Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Jeff Gordon has ridden off into the sunset — or, more precisely, the bright lights of the television booth. Tony Stewart, when healed from an off-season back injury, is in his final NASCAR season. Several other key NASCAR drivers have reached their 40th birthdays. Matt Kenseth is 43, Dale…

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Chris Buescher celebrates after clinching the 2015 NASCAR Xfinity Series championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway.(Photo: Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Jeff Gordon has ridden off into the sunset — or, more precisely, the bright lights of the television booth. Tony Stewart, when healed from an off-season back injury, is in his final NASCAR season. Several other key NASCAR drivers have reached their 40th birthdays. Matt Kenseth is 43, Dale…

Rookie Chase Elliott won the pole for next Sunday’s Daytona 500 on Sunday, and will be joined by Matt Kenseth on the front row. Here are eight things to know about how qualifying went on a mild, sunny day at Daytona International Speedway: The pole winner Elliott, 20, is the youngest driver to win the Daytona 500 pole and the sixth rookie in history to accomplish the feat. He’s racing…

Chris Buescher celebrates after clinching the 2015 NASCAR Xfinity Series championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway.(Photo: Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Jeff Gordon has ridden off into the sunset — or, more precisely, the bright lights of the television booth. Tony Stewart, when healed from an off-season back injury, is in his final NASCAR season. Several other key NASCAR drivers have reached their 40th birthdays. Matt Kenseth is 43, Dale…

RELATED: Full qualifying speeds | From tardy note to Daytona pole winner DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Chase Elliott‘s rookie campaign just got a jump-start. Faced with the daunting prospect of succeeding Jeff Gordon in the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, the 20-year-old Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate drove the same chassis to the same result Gordon accomplished last year—the pole position for the Feb. 21 Daytona 500 (on FOX at 1 p.m. ET)….

RELATED: Full qualifying results | Can-Am Duel lineups DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR cracked down on two teams in Sunday’s Daytona 500 post-qualifying inspection, disallowing qualifying speeds for two Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolets. In addition, Furniture Row Racing‘s lone Toyota missed its qualifying run. The Stewart-Haas No. 4 Chevrolet driven by former NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Kevin Harvick and the SHR No. 14 Chevy — currently wheeled by Brian Vickers in place of the injured Tony Stewart —…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Martin Truex Jr.’s bid for a Daytona 500 pole position never left the starting blocks Sunday afternoon, grounded by a technical issue with a roof flap on his Furniture Row Racing No. 78 Toyota. Truex was scheduled as the 28th of 44 drivers to make a qualifying run for next Sunday’s “Great American Race,” but NASCAR officials delayed the team’s attempt after discovering a problem with the right-side hinged flap. The…

Yes, it is Daytona 500 qualifying day. And that’s big. But even in NASCAR, the fact that it’s also Valentine’s Day cannot be ignored. And believe us, it wasn’t. From Danica Patrick (no surprise there) to her boyfriend, fellow Sprint Cup Series driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr., to all the drivers from Stewart-Haas Racing and beyond, folks in NASCAR took time from their obviously busy days on Sunday to acknowledge the…

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When NASCAR announced earlier this week that it had adopted a Charter system to give 36 teams guaranteed starting spots and a variety of financial benefits, it was widely hailed as a progressive and much-needed step. And it was a very good move. Unless you’re a fan of the Wood Brothers. NASCAR’s oldest team was founded in 1950 and one of the teams that didn’t get a Charter. NASCAR only…

Buy Photo Essex High School boys hockey logo. (Photo: Free Press file)Buy Photo ESSEX – Essex High School is investigating an allegation of “inappropriate behavior” by a boys hockey player against a teammate, the principal says. “We’re in the middle of an investigation, and that’s where we stand,”  Principal Robert Reardon told the Burlington Free Press on Friday. One player has been suspended, the principal said. He declined to identify those involved in the matter….

FILE – In this Nov. 22, 2015, file photo, Kyle Busch does a burnout after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race and the season title, at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla. With four-time champion Jeff Gordon retired and three-time champ Tony Stewart sidelined with a broken back, the NASCAR season begins with a much different look and a new rules package. (AP Photo/Darryl Graham) Looking to end the…

The first official NASCAR charter deal came together Thursday, when HScott Motorsports agreed to a short-term transfer to use the Premium Motorsports charter in 2016. That charter will be used by HScott to run the No. 46 Pilot Flying J Chevrolet with driver Michael Annett. That means Annett will be locked into the field for every race this season. According to HScott, the short-term transfer has been accepted and approved…

Claim: Sixteen girls were impregnated after a boy ejaculated in a swimming pool. FALSE Example: [Collected via Email, February 2016] Can you check out the story about 16 girls getting pregnant in Florida because a boy accidentally ejaculated in a swimming pool? I saw it on facebook. Origin:In February 2016, several fake news web sites published fictitious articles claiming that sixteen girls had become pregnant after a boy accidentally ejaculated in…