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 twice – once each as white and black. Players score one point for each win...
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 nth degree. All the joy and camaraderie of our sport was on full display for...
Back in the 1970s Dan Jenkins lamented that, “My editors never forgave me for the unpardonable sins of George Archer and Bob Coody,” when they won the Masters instead of Jack Nicklaus or Arnold Palmer. Cut to 50 years later, and when I asked my editor who was leading the 2025 PGA Championship during round one, he responded, “Nobody you’d like…” He was being...
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...
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...
[ Editor’s Note: Reprinted with permission of Golf News Net and revised for 2024 publication] The Second Legend of Sleepy Hollow —by Washington Flemma, Special to Golf News Net and Found among the papers of Mr. Ryan Deidricht Knickerbocker— SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY — Nestled in the bosom of a spacious cove on the eastern shore of the Hudson at an expanse...
ST. MARTIN DE LOS ANDES, ARGENTINA – Bienvenidos from Patagonia, Argentina. Articles soon, including for the international Skiing History Association and Ski Area Magazine.
Every golf fan within driving distance needs to cash in their rare and wonderful chance to see Sleepy Hollow Country Club, an indisputable masterpiece of Charles Blair Macdonald, when the USGA brings the Mid-Amateur there this September. Precipitously rising and falling as though you are riding Gunpowder fleeing the Headless Horseman with hapless Ichabod astride his...
LOS ANGELES, CA — It took almost 130 years to happen once. It only took 15 minutes to happen twice:Â Ricky Fowler and Xander Schauffele, playing in consecutive threesomes, fired white-hot 8-under 62s at Los Angeles Country Club’s North Course during the first round of the 123rd U.S. Open Championship. They broke the U.S. Open record by one stroke...
Randolph and DeJohn Derail Ferocious Carolina Comeback, Win 86th Anderson Memorial Fourball at Winged Foot —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— MAMARONECK, NY — I’ll paraphrase an old pop-punk song lyric that describes the happy conundrum facing Trevor Randolph and Chris DeJohn after winning the 86th John G. Anderson Memorial Fourball Tournament at...
MAMARONECK, NY — Though grey clouds shrouded Winged Foot Golf Club for much of Friday’s second round of the 86th Anderson Memorial fourball tournament, there was joy in the heart of every member and competitor. Winged Foot celebrates its centennial anniversary this year: 100 years of rousing cheers, of frothy beers and smiling peers, of hearts sincere and...
PITTSFORD, NY — Without question some of the new holes designed by renovation architect Andrew Green stand tall among the most interesting that Oak Hill’s East Course has to offer. Full of strategic nuance and perplexing hazards they may well see the most swings of fortune at this 105th PGA Championship. Let’s take a closer look at the changes to...
CONTACT: Doug Fish doug@indyskipass.com 503.709.0111 MEDIA RELEASE Key Resorts Commit to Indy Pass for the 23/24 Season Grand County, CO. (March 20, 2023) — The Indy Pass announced today a partial list of key resorts that have committed for the 23/24 season. Unlike the conglomerates, all Indy resorts are independently operated, and each one commits to a one...
Both the Masters and the Open Championship will permit LIV golfers who qualify for the tournaments to compete. The R&A and Augusta National both independently reached the same conclusion, a seemingly fair result as the fledgling LIV Tour seems more exhibition than competition at worst, at best a wtered down version of the PGA or DP World Tours. To that end...
FABIUS, NY – The Attorney General of the state of New York slapped Intermountain Management with an antitrust lawsuit after the developer purchased Toggenburg Mountain outside Syracuse, New York. The company already owned nearby Song and Labrador Mountains at the time of their purchase. According to reporting from the Syracuse Post-Standard, “Attorney...