Jay Busbee

Jay Busbee is a senior writer for Yahoo Sports, where he specializes in longform, deeply-researched tentpole features across sports, with a special emphasis on Southern sports. He has covered the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the World Series, the Masters, the Daytona 500, the Indy 500, the Kentucky Derby, and the national championships of college football and basketball. During the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests and the election season of 2020, he covered the protests and their ripple effects throughout the South, well beyond sports. His book Earnhardt Nation, a biography of NASCAR's Earnhardt family, won praise from both Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly for its in-depth research and narrative scope. Jay’s work has been honored by Best American Sports Writing, and he is a member of all relevant industry writers' associations. He maintains a regular weekly Southern sports/culture newsletter, Flashlight & a Biscuit, with an engaged and ever-growing four-figure readership.