And as the shepherds lay guarding their flocks at night, an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and they were frightened. But he told them, “Fear not! For I bring you glad tiding sof great joy! Today, in the City of David, as savior is born!” And then suddenly a host of heavenly angels appeared and sang, “Glory to God in the highest. And on Earth...
We interrupt this golf season for a skiing update. Remember how we found 23″ of fresh powder at Magic Mountain three weeks ago? Well Geoff Hatheway, one of the SKI MAGIC, LLC folks responsible for the resport’s remarkable resurgence joins up on the Jay’s Plays show to talk skiing, golf, and he even won the trivia contest. Click here for the show...
was an up-and-down week for Faith the Prediction Cat subbing in for Ernesto the Prediction Iguana. She went 5-3 on the week, 1-3 in teasers, winning with the Chiefs (6-1 for us this year), the Ravens (3-0 for us), and the Saints (6-1). She lost with the Patriots (7-3 for us this season) and the Dolphins (0-1). She was 2-1 in OVER/UNDERS. The season totals drop to 50...
Christmas is coming early! Look at some of the incredible deals for golf and skiing! You’ll have enough left over to buy Gramma those reindeer ear muffs! First, $3.50 lift tickets to Mad River Glen, near Sugarbush, Vermont. One of the only true skiing co-ops in the world, snowboarders are not allowed at Mad River. Called by SKI magazine and others, “the...
It was a wild week in the NFL, and it was a wild week for Ernesto the Prediction Iguana as well. He went 4-4, 2-2 in teaser plays, putting the season totals at 45-21 overall, 20-13 in teasers. He won three overs, and hit with the Saints, (5-1 for us this season), but lost with the Chiefs, (4-1 for us), Broncos, (0-1 for us), Patriots, (7-2), and Texans (1-1)...
Border War! Vermont vs. New Hampshire Skiing Part 2 – Magic Mountain —by Jay Flemma Special to Slave to the Traffic Light Adventure Magazine— LONDONDERRY, VT – Abracadabra! Presto, Change-O! Now you see it, now you don’t, and then – happily – now you see it again! Like a rabbit in a conjuring trick, Vermont’s fabled...
As we enter the final 1/4 of the NFL season, Ernesto looks to POUR IT ON! A 5-1 week, 2-1 in teasers swells our intrepid prediction iguana’s season totals to a stellar 41-17 overall, 18-11 in teasers. He won last week with the Patriots (of course, they are 7-1 this season for us in teaser plays), Bears, (3-0 for us) Rams, (2-0) Eagles (1-0) and Ravens (1-0)...
We’re a little late starting the Jazzy Awards – that’s short for Jay’s Golf Awards – but we’re early on the ski slopes…so we’ve got that going for us. As always, in the name of journalistic purity, we publish our Player of the Year Award in this column. This year we voted for Francesco Molinari. “What???”...
Ernesto is roaring like a lion after a 5-1 week, 2-1 in teasers. That swells the season totals to a robust 38-14, 16-10 in teasers. We won last week with the Patriots (6-1 for us this season), the Saints (4-0 for us), the Texans, the Colts, and the Packers (1-0 this season with each). Our lone loss was betting against the Browns (3-2 on that score this year). So...
Ernesto keeps gobbling up wins like Americans gobble dry stringy turkey on Thanksgiving! A 4-2 week, (1-2 in teasers) swells the season totals to a strong 33-13 overall, 14-9 in teasers. Last week we won with the Bears (3-0 for us this season), Saints (2-0 for us), and a Chiefs cover (4-0 this season against the spread!), along with an OVER/UNDER. The Chargers were...
For the first time since Bobby Fischer defeated Boris Spassky in 1972 an American is vying for the FIDE World Chess Championship. 26-year old Fabiano Caruana won the Candidate’s Tournament handily and is now deadlocked with 3-time reigning FIDE World Champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway with Game 6 underway as we go to press. Caruana is actually the fourth...
Lightning struck twice in the same place this weekend as the Patriots lost their end of a parley and the Browns finally won. That, of course, was nothing compared to Bears kicker Cody Parkey’s day…he hit the upright four times in one game! “I don’t think I’ve hit the post four times in my whole life, and I’ve been kicking for about...
There is SOOOOOOOO much meat on this bone, we could discuss it for years! European Tour pro Brandon Stone had 500 tries to make a hole in one on a par-3 on his favorite course in the world, Sun City in South Africa. This video unearthed by Ryan Ballengee of Golf News Net follows Stone’s quest to cardv a seventh ace in his career. What follows, of course, is...
It was “the most interesting week in the NFL in years,” according to Vegas Insiders. That means they took a bath! “So many parlays were still alive by the time to 4:00 games started, we were going to lose and lose big no matter what,” said one casino book manager in a radio interview. Here at AWITP and GNN, Ernesto the Prediction Iguana broke...
So Golf News Net has run two recent pieces of mine: First, the Boston Half Marathon and Tedesco Country Club piece is up here. We were top news for a while! Next, the latest Jay’s Plays Radio Show is up! This week we interview U.S. Amateur competitor Matt Cocorikis and veteran New York Daily News columnist Hank Gola about his new book City of Champions. And...