AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — 11:29 a.m. Rory McIlroy got off to a bit of a shaky start Thursday at the Masters, knocking his ball into a creek that runs well off the left side of the par-5 second hole. After taking a drop on the pine straw, McIlroy lined his next shot between a couple of trees, back into fairway. Charley Hoffman, playing in the first group of the day,
Adrian Gonzalez insists he’s no home run hitter, even if his current power surge suggests otherwise. It’s paying off, with three more home runs Wednesday night that made Gonzalez the first player in major league history with five in the season’s first three games. He helped the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres 7-4 to win their opening series 2-1. Fittingly, Gonzalez received his Silver Slugger award from
The San Antonio Spurs are surging to close the regular season, and the Houston Rockets couldn’t slow them down. Tony Parker scored 27 points in Spurs’ 110-98 win Wednesday night, their ninth straight victory. Parker had 13 points in the opening quarter, shaking the Spurs out of a lethargic start and catapulting them to their 19th victory in 23 games. ”He played a really great floor game,” San Antonio coach
By Mark Lamport-Stokes AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) – World number one Rory McIlroy launched his bid for a career grand slam of the four majors with a rock-solid par on his opening hole in the Masters first round on Thursday. Watched by massive galleries on a glorious morning of unbroken sunshine at Augusta National, the Northern Irishman struck a superb approach shot to 10 feet and narrowly missed his birdie putt
By Mark Lamport-Stokes AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 9 (Reuters) – World number one Rory McIlroy launched his bid for a career grand slam of the four majors with a rock-solid par on his opening hole in the Masters first round on Thursday. Watched by massive galleries on a glorious morning of unbroken sunshine at Augusta National, the Northern Irishman struck a superb approach shot to 10 feet and narrowly missed his
The battle for Masters supremacy was in full swing at Augusta National on Thursday, with Rory McIlroy marching off in search of golfing history and Bubba Watson battling to defend the title he won last year. At 25, McIlroy would be the second-youngest player ever to complete the full set of Grand Slam titles were he to emerge truimphant on Sunday. Only Tiger Woods, the last of five players to
By Scott Malone FALL RIVER, Mass. (Reuters) – The judge in former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez’s murder trial on Thursday reprimanded a local television station after two jurors reported being followed by one of its trucks, warning the incident could have led to a mistrial. The jury has begun its third day of deliberations on whether Hernandez, 25, is guilty of murdering an associate, in the first of
Fitness and patience will enable top-ranked Rory McIlroy to handle the Masters’ back nine Sunday pressure better than his infamous 2011 collapse, says three-time Masters winner Gary Player. McIlroy seeks his third major triumph in a row this week and would complete a career Grand Slam with a triumph over the same layout where he led by four strokes entering the final round four years ago only to stumble on
Microsoft has detailed a speedy Nano Server preloaded with born-in-the-cloud applications and containers, all of which will make new container option an important part of Windows Server 2016. The purpose-built OS is designed to cope with the ever changing band of modern apps and cloud technologies, which require speed, agility and lower resource usage than traditional servers. At its heart, the Nano Server is a extremely slimmed down version of
Best Android apps – introduction The Google Play store has exploded in recent years, with a proliferation of apps that can cater to your every need. The problem is: there are just too many of them. Even with Editor’s Picks, Featured and Best Selling, Top Paid and Top Free categories there to help you out with your downloading decision it’s still a difficult task finding the best apps around. And