Jay Busbee

2 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Jay Busbee

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Sixteen years after reaping the benefit of the most fortunate ricochet ever to occur in the Masters, Ángel Cabrera is back in Augusta. No player in Masters history has had a more circuitous — or more controversial — route from his green jacket ceremony back to the first tee, a route that’s included violent crime, arrests, imprisonment and, now, a plea for redemption.

2 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Jay Busbee

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Another major season is here, and that means it’s time for another round of “Is this Rory McIlroy’s year?” The world’s finest player over the last decade and a half, McIlroy is now in Year 11 of a major drought, with a litany of frustration and heartbreak in his wake. McIlroy has lost a major virtually every way one can lose a major — from ahead, from behind, on Thursday morning, on Sunday evening.

2 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Jay Busbee

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The moment Cindy Kuhlke knew something was very wrong was the moment the sound of the baby monitors in her bedroom winked out. Cindy and her daughter Chesley had tucked Chesley’s two daughters — ages two years and five weeks — in their cribs at 7:00 on the night of Thursday, September 26, 2024, the way they had done every night.

2 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Jay Busbee

Many of the top players in this year’s Masters are speaking before the tournament on subjects ranging from the state of their golf game to the state of the course to … other strangeness. We’ll gather their words here throughout the week until the Thursday morning tee times. AdvertisementAUGUSTA, Ga. — This time last year, Xander Schauffele wasn’t quite saddled with an “underachiever” label, but the questions were starting to simmer.

3 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Jay Busbee

If you’ve never sat in the darkness as a hurricane bears down on you, if you’ve never watched the Weather Channel hoping there’s no correspondent based anywhere near you, if you’ve never refreshed your phone and watched the wind speeds outside keep increasing … well, I don’t recommend it. AdvertisementOn the evening of September 27, 2024, millions from the Gulf Coast of Florida up through Georgia and Tennessee spent a sleepless night watching Hurricane Helene carve its way north.