INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — It was an hour before the Indianapolis 500, and Dario Franchitti and Tony Kanaan found a quiet corner to prepare for the race. They were interrupted by Parnelli Jones, Bobby Unser and Johnny Rutherford, three of the greatest drivers in IndyCar history. "T.K. and I were getting our pictures taken. We were [...] ...
Scotland's Dario Franchitti won the 96th Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, taking his third career Indy 500 crown after Japan's Takuma Sato crashed while running beside him on the final lap. Franchitti, who also won the fabled race in 2007 and 2010, was followed across the finish line under a caution flag by Chip Ganassi Racing [...] ...
Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another won the 137th Preakness on Saturday, charging down the backstretch to edge Bodemeister by a head for a victory that sustained his Triple Crown bid. Living up to his name, I'll Have Another put himself in position to become the first horse since Affirmed in 1978 to sweep the [...] ...
I'll Have Another won the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby, surging past Bodemeister in the final straight to claim the first jewel in US flat racing's Triple Crown. Trained by Doug O'Neill, Santa Anita Derby-winner I'll Have Another on Saturday gave Mexican jockey Mario Gutierrez a victory on his first Kentucky Derby mount. Bodemeister, [...] ...
(Reuters) - American Bubba Watson became only the third left-hander to win the Masters with a gripping playoff victory over South African Louis Oosthuizen at Augusta National on Sunday. Watson clinched his first major title with a two-putt par on the second extra hole, the par-four 10th, where Oosthuizen bogeyed after ending up just short [...] ...
AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Bubba Watson conjured a miraculous par from pine straw to become only the third left-hander to win the Masters with an emotional playoff victory over Louis Oosthuizen at Augusta National on Sunday. The American clinched his first major title with a two-putt par on the second extra hole, the par-four 10th, [...] ...
Life is good for Justin Bieber's good friend, Bubba Watson. Bubba, 33, won golf's prestigious Masters tournament on Sunday, becoming the latest pro golfer to take home the iconic Masters green jacket. PLAY IT NOW: Is One Direction Collaborating With Justin Bieber? The Florida-born golfer bested South African golfer Louis Oosthuizen in a dramatic round [...] ...
New Masters champion Bubba Watson is a new dad who doesn't know how to change a diaper, and he's hoping that his first major title and a $1.44 million top prize might delay any lessons. Watson parred the second sudden-death playoff hole on Sunday to defeat South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen and win the 76th Masters. [...] ...
American Bubba Watson parred the second sudden-death playoff hole to defeat South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen and capture the 76th Masters for his first major golf championship. The 33-year-old US left-hander became the eighth first-time major winner in a row and only the third southpaw to claim the green jacket symbolic of Masters supremacy after three-time [...] ...
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The rarest shot in golf can happen any time Bubba Watson has a golf club in hands. Watson was so deep in the woods late Sunday afternoon that he couldn't even see where he was going. With his golf ball nestled on a bed of pine needles, he hit a gap [...] ...
Taylor Swift won her second consecutive entertainer of the year award at the Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday night, just 24 hours after she was saluted by first lady Michelle Obama for her charity work on The Kids' Choice Awards. Even by Swift's lofty standards, it was an outstanding weekend — though tempered [...] ...
Mitt Romney won nine delegates each from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands after Republicans there met Saturday at their state conventions and supported the former Massachusetts governor in unanimous shows of hands. Later in the day, Romney also picked up seven delegates from his victory in the U.S. Virgin Islands caucus, GOP Chairman Herb [...] ...