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 photographs of the Moon. American Douglas Engelbart invented the first computer mouse...
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 the Year. Impeccably researched, painstakingly thorough, and written with...
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. Fish’s impact on international skiing and snowboarding cannot be...
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 easy, topping out after 02 minutes. His post-climb interview seemed to confirm...
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 far-flung. Better still, Sam is always on the cutting edge of what’s...
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 he and his brother John ever visited. Now, as the Erciyes resort area has grown...
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 beloved northwest coast of England for another four rounds of golf amidst the...
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 consecutive titles. With two games left, both Caruana and So won thweir 10th round games...
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...
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...
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...
[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...
Elmsford, NY (January 7, 2025) —Longtime golf journalist Hank Gola has been elected to a two-year term as President of the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association by the MGWA Executive Committee. “It’s an honor to take the reins of the MGWA from Brian Crowell, who has steered the organization so capably over the last four years,” said Gola. He continued, “The...