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Orlando Magic acquire guard Jodie Meeks from Detroit Pistons

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Jodie Meeks, shown above, joins the Orlando Magic in a trade engineeered by the front office on June 29. Meeks comes to Orlando from the Dewtroit Pistons in exchange for a future conditional second round pick.

By HENRY FREDERICK
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Orlando Magic have acquired guard Jodie Meeks from the Detroit Pistons in exchange for a future conditional second round draft pick, General Manager Rob Hennigan announced today.

Stetson University's Brianti Saunders nets record 40 Points in Hatters' win

Breaks single-game scoring record that stood for 29 years & spanning 842 games

DELAND, Fla. -- Brianti Saunders was not going to be denied as she knocked down her first eight shots en route to a 40-point performance Sunday at home in a 79-57 trouncing of Georgia Southern in the first day of the 2015 Hatter Classic.

 

Top 500 Wrestlers Ranked: 'American Dream' Dusty Rhodes 25th best among the greats

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Dusty Rhodes snapshot / Headline Sufer®Dusty Rhodes remembered by WWE on Twitter / Headline Surfer®DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes is ranked 25th best among the top 500 greatest wrestlers of the past 65 years.

The HeadlineSurfer.com column Wrestling ReWind presents its latest top 500 poll in honor of Rhodes, who died Thursday in Orlando, reportedly after a fall. He was 69.

The 25th ranking among the top 500 wrestlers truly demonstrates Rhodes' standing among the pro wrestling greats.

Rhodes, with his roly-poly girth, was not a hulking figure like the immortal Hulk Hogan, No. 1 of the top 500 wrestlers in the Wrestling ReWind rankings. But Rhodes played to his strengths with that girth as the "blue collar son of a plumber."

Daytona 200 bike race gets green flag for 2015 run at Speedway

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Daytona International Speedway has reached a sanction agreement with the American SportBike Racing Association to hold the 74th annual Daytona 200 motorcycle race in 2015 during Bike Week, track President Joie Chitwood announced today.

Tiger Woods has backed out of Orlando's Arnold Palmer Invitational due to back injury

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Tiger Woods with Arnold Palmer, won't be going for 9th invitational in Orlando / Headline Surfer®

Photo for Headline Surfer® / Tiger Woods won't be able to add to his record-breaking eighth Arnold Palmer Invitational Championship, due to back pain. He's shown here with Palmer from a screen shot taken from his website.
 

ORLANDO -- The world's No. 1 ranked golfer won't defend his championship when play begins Thursday in Orlando’s Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill. That's because Tiger Woods withdrew Tuesday citing continued back spasms. 

Regan Smith edges out Brad Kezelowski by .013 seconds for green-white-checkered win in 2014 Nationwide 300 race at Daytona

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Regan Smith got “redemption,” today by edging out last year's winner Brad Keselowski by .013 seconds for the green-white-checkered win in Saturday’s DRIVE4COPD 300 at Daytona International Speedway.

New media taking hold at Daytona International Speedway

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- In the digital age, "new media" outlets like Headline Surfer® often get lost in the shuffle in the complicated licensing agreements that large sports sanctioning bodies like NASCAR, Major League Baseball and the National Football League and others have with the broadcast outlets like FOX Sports, ESPN, and then the perceived pecking order of established print and local TV media outlets.

Richard Sherman: No thug, but sly fox in marketing himself at opportune time

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Richard Sherman, DB, Seattle Seahawks

Joe Copenhaver, Wooster, Ohio sheriff's deputy and guest sports blogger / Headline Surfer® By JOE COPENHAVER
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WOOSTER, Ohio -- To most football fans, the NFC Championship game will likely be remembered more for the post-game ranting of Seahawks DB Richard Sherman than the game itself, which saw Seattle outlast the San Francisco 49ers, 23-17, to punch its ticket to today's Super Bowl match-up with the Denver Broncos.