by Bill Pollock | Feb 20, 2012 | Sports Features
Coming in with a lap at 194.738 mph (46.216 seconds), fastest since Jeff Gordon in 1999, Columbia, MO. native Carl Edwards beat out Roush-Fenway Racing teammate Greg Biffle (194.087 mph) for the pole in Sunday’s Daytona 500. Under Daytona’s unique...
by Bill Pollock | Nov 10, 2011 | Sports Features
Big Thunder Marine, a 46-foot Skater catamaran with four 1,200 horsepower engines, crashed during the Key West World Championships. Robert M. Morgan, of Sunrise Beach, Mo., and Jeffrey Tillman, of Kaiser, Mo., were rescued and taken to a nearby hospital. Race...
by Bill Pollock | Feb 15, 2010 | Sports Features
If anyone would know how to drive around potholes you figure it would be someone from Missouri right? Joplin native Jamie McMurray won the Daytona 500, holding off Dale Earnhardt Jr. who tried to make a late charge in a wild two lap finish. A pothole delayed the race...