industry makes it one of the town's largest supporters and invaluable to the local economy. The Central Florida Warriors of the USA Rugby League are based in DeLand. In the movies DeLand has been the filming location for a number of television and movie projects, including the 1999 Adam Sandler comedy The Waterboy. Scenes showing the fictional South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs home football games were shot at Spec Martin Stadium. Classroom and exterior scenes were filmed at Stetson University. Scenes involving Sandler's character's home were actually filmed in neighboring DeBary. Ghost Story, starring Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr and Craig Wasson, was filmed in part at Stetson University and the Holiday House. The HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon filmed several scenes on the campus of Stetson University. The 1999 independent film The First of May, starring Mickey Rooney and Joe DiMaggio, was shot on various locations throughout DeLand. Days of Thunder, starring Tom Cruise, was partially filmed in DeLand. New Urban Cowboy: Toward a New Pedestrianism (2008) was filmed almost entirely in DeLand in 2006 and 2007. Walt Before Mickey filmed several scenes at the Stetson University campus in 2014 and Athens Theatre. Media Newspapers The West Volusia Beacon, a weekly news publication covering DeLand and West Volusia County The Daytona Beach News-Journal, a daily newspaper covering the Greater Daytona Beach Area and Volusia County The Orlando Sentinel, a newspaper based in Orlando with a bureau covering Volusia County Radio stations AM WYND, 1310, religious WTJV, 1490, Spanish language FM W247AK, 97.3, translator for WJLU WOCL, 105.9, classic hits Publishing Everett/Edwards Notable people Horace Allen, baseball player Byllye Avery, health care activist Charles P. Bailey (pilot), former U.S. Army Air Force officer, Tuskegee Airman R. H. Barlow, author, poet, anthropologist, and historian Bill Booth, skydiving engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur David Cohen, CEO and founder of TechStars Joyce Cusack, Florida politician and retired registered nurse Terence Trent D'Arby, singer-songwriter Jacob deGrom, baseball player Paul Dicken, baseball player Bert Fish, envoy to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Portugal R. Buckminster Fuller, world-renowned 20th-century inventor, mathematician and futurist, inventor of the geodesic dome, coined the phrase "Spaceship Earth" Mike Gillislee, football player Lue Gim Gong, horticulturalist Bridgette Gordon, basketball player Stephen Guarino, actor and comedian Ed Hickox, umpire Burling Hull, magician Carolyn J. B. Howard, politician Craig T. James, congressman Arthur Jones, inventor Chipper Jones, Hall of Fame