Dustin hard at work
The guy with the glasses on the right side of this picture in today's USA Today? That's Dustin Long, hard at work at Daytona where, he reports, it was freezing last night.
Also note the new byline on the story. Nate Ryan is USA Today's newest motorsports writer. He used to work at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, my hometown paper. He replaces Chris Jenkins, who joined the AP in a place even colder than Daytona - Milwaukee, where he'll write about the Packers, the Bucks and other Wisconsin-related sports.
Speaking of Richmond, Denny Hamlin is from there. The RTD and new NASCAR writer Jill Erwin has more here and here about the leading ROY candidate.
has more on the leading ROY candidate.
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