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New Inductees Announced for US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame

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): Chris Cushing has shaped mountain resort design over four decades, following in...

Lots of Indy Pass News – Pass Sales Are On, 270 Resorts in 14 Countries

The 25/26 Indy Pass went back on sale to the public on August 28 and is nearly sold out. Prices are as follows: Indy Pass Pricing – Final Sale for 2025/26 Indy Base Pass $449 Adult / $299 Kids (12-and-under) Indy+ Pass $599 Adult / $329 Kids (no blackouts) Indy AddOn Base $349 Adult / $229 Kids Indy AddOn+ Pass $429 Adult / $249 Kids (no blackouts) XC Pass $99...

Double the Fun – Two iHeart Radio Shows – Boise Open with Jeff Sanders and English Links Golf with Steven Reid and Ian Jamson

We’ve got a double serving of Jay Flemma Sports Report on iHeartRadio for you. First mega-mogul Jeff Sanders – no one mixes rock and golf better – joined our show to talk about the Boise Open golf tournament on the Korn Ferry Tour. The tournament was, as always, the most rousing of successes. Next. we travel across the pond to talk about two of the...

Royal Lytham & St. Anne’s Celebrating 100 Years of Open Championship Heritage

Royal Lytham & St. Anne’s Celebrating 100 Years of Open Championship Heritage [Editor’s Note:  While we record some more radio shows and prep for a glorious return to England for more from the northwest golf coast, Jay has this review of a century of professional major championship heritage at Royal Lytham. And St. Anne’s. Coming soon:  Lytham’s archivist and...

Buona Notte, Marino Parascenzo, Great Friend of Golf

Buona Notte, Marino Parascenzo, Great Friend of Golf I shed more than one tear as I wrote this story. My best friend died yesterday. It might seem odd for a man in his mid-50s to call a 95 year-old who was not his father his best friend, but God sends people to each other. That’s best how to describe my friendship with Marino. We were meant to be friends; it was...

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Golf Tournament Scheduled for September 23 at Mount Ogden Golf Course

The US Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame is hosting its annual 4-person golf outing at the MOUNT OGDEN GOLF COURSE on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23rd, 2025 with a 9 am SHOTGUN START. The golf outing will be followed by the CLASS of 2026 ANNOUNCEMENT & MEDIA PARTY at U.S. SKI & SNOWBOARD USANA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE from 5-7 pm. SCHEDULE Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025 8...

Emilio Gonzalez Won the Trophy but We All Won the Albertsons Boise Open

BOISE, ID – Mexico’s Emilio Gonzalez dazzled the Korn Ferry Tour with a sparkling final round 61 to win the golf tournament, but the whole city of Boise won the Albertsons Boise Open. Indeed, the final chapter of the Korn Ferry Tour regular season was a rip-roaring success on every level, especially seeing as how organizers had to pull off not one, but three concerts...

The Albertson’s Boise Open, Where Dreams are Waiting to Come True

BOISE, ID – Now comes the knife’s edge, the crucible of the late season of the Korn Ferry Tour, where dreams of the Big Time! and Bigger Money! slumber cheek and jowl with the nightmare of another seemingly interminable year of slogging, soldiering, and soul searching. Some of these golfers are destined for the PGA Tour next year. Relief! Satisfaction! Success! It’s...

The Spectator’s Guide to Hillcrest Country Club and the Boise Albertson’s Open

BOISE, ID – [Author’s Note:  There’s watching golf and there’s there are WAYS TO WATCH THE GOLF, if you understand the nuance. Anyone can go to the tournament, but maximizing your enjoyment is the ultimate goal. What are you looking for? Golf action? The beer tent? The party scene? People watching? Being watched? If you’re going the Korn Ferry playoffs this week in...

Whiteface Joins Mountain Collective, Will Host FIS Ski Jumping World Cup

Two quick announcements from the Olympic Regional Development Authority – the New York State body that oversees operations and planning for Whiteface Mountain host of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics, as well as Belleyre and Gore Mountain. First, all three ORDA resorts have joined the Mountain Collective Pass for this season. The obvious question is “Was...

The Insider’s Guide to England’s Royal Liverpool Golf Club

[Editor’s Note:  Our Indomitable Sportsman, Jay Flemma, has returned from northwest England’s fabled Golf Coast with stories from their Open Championship venues and more. In this column, he analyzes the golf architecture of Royal Liverpool Golf Club, perennial Open Championship venue since 1897.] HOYLAKE, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – The tang of the salty sea air, the soft...

Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s Golf Club, A Classic Golf Club with Be-Boppy Golf Architecture

LYTHAM ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND – It was somewhere just off the sixth fairway of Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s Golf Club when, lost amidst the heaving sea of shaggy, marram-grassed hills, I felt the metaphoric lightning strike. It was electrifying how much fun I was having. I had no idea where the green was; it was made blind by dunes towering above me on...