Fingerpaint Masterpiece at Augusta National Earns Rory McIlroy Golf’s Career Grand Slam —by Jay Flemma, reprinted from Golf News Net— There were moments when we were sure he had it won, but he didn’t. There were moments when we thought he had thrown it away for good, but he hadn’t. There were moments we thought it was his daughter Poppy hitting the golf...
It’s the eve of Masters Championship Sunday, and the leaderboard for this, the 89th playing of America’s most august sporting event could have been written by Hollywood or Shakespeare, take your pick. Start with Rory McIlroy. He burst on the scene as a wunderkind, blossomed into a Hall of Famer, and now stands – along with Tiger Woods – as the bulwark against LIV...
Woo hoo hoo! It’s the greatest golf week of the year. Rebirth, renewal, resurrection, and the epitome of that is indeed the Masters. We have a terrific radio show preview for you at Jay Flemma Sports Report. First, Jay Busbee of Yahoo!Sports checks in from his jet-setting adventures across the sporting globe. Then in the second half of our show, Ryan Ballengee...
Praying at the Cathedral of the Andes, Argentina’s Cerro Catedral [Author’s Note: As a continuation of our 20th anniversary celebrations, could there be a more atmospheric venue to write about than Argentina’s mighty Cerro Catedral? Not bloody likely…so here’s my review of the mountain as it appears in 2025, along with travel tips…] VILLA CATEDRAL, RIO NEGRO...
Border War! Vermont vs. New Hampshire Skiing Part 14 – Cranmore Mountain —by Jay Flemma— NORTH CONWAY, NH – Take the family atmosphere of Pat’s Peak, mix in the mountain vibe of quintessential ski town North Conway, and add a heaping dose of plentiful White Mountains snow all season long, and you get Cranmore Mountain. Started in 1937 from humble beginnings...
We have a collection of announcements from the USGA to catch everyone up on: awards, venues, and championship details. First and foremost, storied and historic Pine Valley will host the 2044 Walker Cup. I know it’s 20 years in the future (well 19 to be exact…) but beg borrow or steal to get there. Fabled Pine Valley opening its doors to the general...
[Editor’s Note: Jay’s 20th Anniversary celebrations as a sports writer continue with Part 2 of Jay’s 20 year super-intro-retro-spective, looking at golf, skiing, steroids in sports, chumps, lunkheads, and dingbats, and much more in the topsy-turvy world of professional sports…especially when it intersects with the life and tines of an...
SUN VALLEY, ID – Quintessential veteran winter sports writer John Lundin will be covering the FIS World Cup Finals at Sun Valley March 22-27, handling the lion’s share of writing duty while several other writers are presiding over the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies and the Skiing History Gala in Lake Placid. Lundin knows more...
A huge thank you to both NASJA and to Golf News Net for airing the NASJA Ethics in Journalism webinar as an iHeartRadio show for Jay Flemma Sports Report. You’ll recall we had four quintessential national panelists sharing their stories and experiences from covering events in the media center to the Olympics and beyond. Filip Bondy of the New York Daily News...
One of the great things about GNN and my editor, publisher, and all around leader Ryan Ballengee is that I get to stretch my legs as a broadcaster and cover the other sports as well. As golf season and ski season dovetail perfectly, here is my first skiing radio show of 2025 . First, we had legendary Hall of Fame extreme skier Dan Egan talking about the snow this...
Tom Kim is having entirely too much fun at Tiger Woods’s expense in this episode of Video of the WEAK! This is why video game golf on television is nothing more than a Silly Season idea. Tiger’s team of Woods, Kim and Kevin Kisner were already getting smeared by the weirdsville score of “9-3” when woods asked his teammates for a distance for...
Augusta National may be the most venerable course in America, Pebble Beach may be the most beautiful, and Winged Foot may be the Yankee Stadium of golf, but for my money, Oakmont may be our country’s greatest major championship venue, and it returns this summer for its record 10th U.S. Open Championship. Pittsburgh, PA is indeed the city of champions and befitting...
Race Review – 52nd Houston Half Marathon – Interview with athletes Glenna Toomey and Savanna Tryon of Boise, ID [Author’ Note: While we finish a few more stories for various sites and zines, two intrepid members of my running club went and tore up the 52nd Chevron Houston Half Marathon. This club, the Boise Area Runners, has strong athletes across multiple...
Big thank you to Golf Course Trades for running my latest story – a retelling of many of the worst golf train wrecks at Oakmont. Oh Oakmont, our great grassy guillotine! We will see her again this June for the 125th U.S. Open. The story is here. Here is a snippet from the piece: So the legend is actually true: You could play the U.S. Open at Oakmont with...
Veteran Sports writer Nancy Armour has this report about Mikaela Shiffrin’s comeback from a scary puncture wound injury after a crash in Vermont. From the article: “Shiffrin will return to the World Cup circuit next Thursday in Courchevel, France, just shy of nine weeks after suffering a puncture wound and tearing in her abdominal muscles in a crash...