[Author’s Note: This is Part 2 of a three-part series on Sugarbush. Click here for A Sugarbush Love Story] MOUNTAIN GAZETTEER – SUGARBUSH RESORT With the exception of the gondola being eliminated and the Slide Brook Express added to connect Mt. Ellen to Lincoln Peak...
It’s always an announcement that generates excitement in golf circles: what will the defending Masters champion serve to the former champions gathered for dinner the night before the Masters par-3 contest begins? Angel Cabrera served Argentinian steaks – well received...
PRESS RELEASE FROM ENTABENI AND INDY PASS: “ENTABENI SYSTEMS AND INDY PASS RELOCATE HEADQUARTERS TO NEW HAMPSHIRE; REASSUMES FULL OWNERSHIP OF BLACK MOUNTAIN Historic Ski Area Reborn as Innovation Hub for Independent Ski Areas JACKSON, N.H. — March 12, 2026 — Black Mountain will...
A SUGARBUSH LOVE STORY Early 1964 was bitterly cold along I-90 in upstate New York. The Beatles “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” was in the midst of a seven-week run as number one song on American Top 40. NASA’s Ranger 7 spacecraft snapped and transmitted back home the first close-up...
Two tidbits of skiing news for this week: First, Indy Pass is announcing the addition of sixteen new ski areas for the 26/27 season, including Les 7 Laux, France; Bergbahnen Hohsaas AG, Switzerland; Valmorel, France; Stöten i Sälen, Sweden; Levi, Finland; Murray Ski Ridge, BC; Pebble...
The field is set for the 2026 FIDE World Classical Chess Championship Candidates Tournament, and for once Americans are favored to win not only the Candidates Tournament, but the entire FIDE world title later in the year. Eight players from seven different nations will play each other...
Doug Fish’s appearance on Jay Flemma Sports Report revealed the latest on Snowvana – the new Boston ski and snowboard show replacing Snowbound which moved to Connecticut. Click here for the full interview. Snowvana has had a terrific run in Portland, Seattle, and now Minnesota...
Best-selling author and former New York Daily News sports columnist Hank Gola joined us on Jay Flemma Sports Report to talk about his amazing book racing up the charts, Ryder Cup Rivals. We’ll have a more in-depth review soon, but clearly this is the front-runner for Golf Book of...
Snowsports industry magnate Doug Fish, the founder of Indy Pass and the genius behind the Snowvana series of winter sports trade shows, will sit for a probing interview with North American Snowsports Journalists Association vice president Jay Flemma on Thursday, February 12 at 7pm Eastern...
Free solo climbing wizard Alex Honnold has done it again. The man who was first to free solo El Capitan in Yosemite National Park has summited…err…climbed the tallest building in the world, Taipei 101, topping out at a dizzying 1,667 feet and 101 floors. Honnold made it look...
BOISE, ID – NASJA, the North American Snowsports Journalists Association, will host a meeting and party at New Hampshire’s Black Mountain March 8-10, 2026. This marks one of the first times since Covid that snowsports writing’s most historic and venerable body will hold...
JACKSON, WY – Mighty, venerable Jackson Hole celebrated its 60th anniversary last weekend with a blowout party that would have impressed even Bilbo Baggins of the Shire. Tree lightings, DJs, costume contests, and holiday good cheer had the hundreds of weekend patrons absolutely stoked to...
The Fox and the Wolves (Set to the tune of Rush’s song “The Trees”) There is unrest in the forest, There is trouble in the trees, For the wolves spotted a red fox, But the fox escaped on skis. The trouble with the wolfpack (And they quite insist they’re right) Is that they...
A South Carolina woman and two of her accomplices are the tip of the iceberg of a scandal rocking the ski pass industry as hundreds of fake passes were sold by thieves masquerading as discount retailers. A complicated scam involving a on-line ads in ski-centric social media sites and...
There’s a young lion out there who’s taking the skiing and YouTube world by storm. Meet Sam Weintraub and his YouTube Channel Peak Rankings. Sam has been globetrotting like mad lately, taking groups of his channel followers and colleagues to destinations both home grown and...
It’s here. Ski and snowboard season has started. Ropes are dropping, snowmaking is in full tilt, and many bog name resorts have already started spinning lifts. And right on cue there is big news from one of the apex predators of the American winter sports scene. Jackson Hole...
Wow. Just wow. As usual, Dan Egan has his finger on the zeitgeist of the skiing planet. And, once again, he chronicles his adventures in film, much like the glory days of the Warren Miller. This time, Dan returns decades later to Turkey, scene of one of the wildest and most primal spots...
It’s been an busy last week here at JF.com, Golf News Net, the North American Snowsports Journalists Association, and Jay Flemma Sports Report. We’ll also have the close of the golf season to discuss and write about. So strap in – golf may be in silly season, but with...
BLUNDELLSANDS, LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – It was somewhere along the front nine of the West Lancashire Golf Club after the blustering 25-mile per hour gusts turned from directly in my face to a ferocious crosswind when I broke into the widest smile of the week. Once again, I had returned to my...
Great job by Carrie and all the wonderfully sweet folks at Golf Course Trades as they have run my latest story from Royal Liverpool. The link is here. With 150 years of history to recount, both professional and amateur, we had to split the project into two parts. We’ll pick up with...
It was a nail-biter until the end of the final round, but Fabiano Caruana held off Wesley So 8/12 to 7.5/12 to win his fourth consecutive United states Championship and fifth title over all. He ties Bobby Fischer for second-most consecutive victories. Samuel Reshevsky won five...
Fabiano Caruana, the Italian-American wunderkind who famously took chess GOAT Magnus Carlsen to super-secret-quadruple blitz overtime before finally bowing to Carlsen in the 2016 FIDE World Chess Championship is poised to win his fourth consecutive United States Championship at the St...
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Over 150 Years of Championship History [Editor’s Note: This article also appears at Golf Course Trades. Our Indomitable Sportsman Jay Flemma takes us back to northwest England’s Royal Liverpool Golf Club, this time for a walk though over 150 years of golf...
[Editor’s Note: Besides being a member of NASJA, Jay is also the sitting vice president.] The North American Snowsports Journalists Association will be hosting both their annual meeting and a professional development webinar live in Boston, Massachusetts on Thursday, November 13 at...
I told everyone so, but nobody wanted to hear it. And now boy genius Keegan Bradley and his band of overpaid, underprepared American Ryder Cuppers have been treated like Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators: hang, drawn, quartered, and their limbs posted upon spikes atop the ball...
The Open Championship Chronicles and Beyond Part 2 – Royal Birkdale, West Lancashire, Southport and Ainsdale, Wallasey, and Hillside [Editor’s Note: Our Indomitable Sportsman Jay Flemma continues his adventures along England’s fabled Golf Coast. Enchanting and spellbinding, the northwest...
OGDEN, UT – The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame kicked off their 2026 inductee announcement with a golf tournament more fun than sticking a 720 off a mogul at Snowbird. Goodie, bags, prizes, shirt-sleeve sunshine all day, and the warm camaraderie of our beloved sport coupled with a...
The one and only Rees Jones, “Open Doctor,” “PGA Physician,” and the man who, along with David Fey, resurrected Bethpage Black from a golf scrapheap to major championship and Ryder Cup glory, joins us for an in-depth look at Bethpage Black for the Ryder Cup...
BETHPAGE, NY – The incredible rags to riches story of Bethpage Black continues at light speed. The once shabby, shoddy, ill-kept state-run public links has risen like a vengeful phoenix to become a part of America’s informal major golf championship rotation, if one can be said to exist...
The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame announced the 2025-26 class of inductees. The ceremony will be the weekend of April 8-11 in Snowbird/Alta, Salt Lake City. Click here for more information on the ceremonies and how to attend Class of 2025: Chris Cushing (Franconia, New Hampshire):...
