The Fox and the Wolves (Set to the tune of Rush’s song “The Trees”) There is unrest in the forest, There is trouble in the trees, For the wolves spotted a red fox, But the fox escaped on skis. The trouble with the wolfpack (And they quite insist they’re right) Is that they...
A South Carolina woman and two of her accomplices are the tip of the iceberg of a scandal rocking the ski pass industry as hundreds of fake passes were sold by thieves masquerading as discount retailers. A complicated scam involving a on-line ads in ski-centric social media sites and...
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...
It’s here. Ski and snowboard season has started. Ropes are dropping, snowmaking is in full tilt, and many bog name resorts have already started spinning lifts. And right on cue there is big news from one of the apex predators of the American winter sports scene. Jackson Hole...
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...
It’s been an busy last week here at JF.com, Golf News Net, the North American Snowsports Journalists Association, and Jay Flemma Sports Report. We’ll also have the close of the golf season to discuss and write about. So strap in – golf may be in silly season, but with...
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...
Great job by Carrie and all the wonderfully sweet folks at Golf Course Trades as they have run my latest story from Royal Liverpool. The link is here. With 150 years of history to recount, both professional and amateur, we had to split the project into two parts. We’ll pick up with...
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...
Fabiano Caruana, the Italian-American wunderkind who famously took chess GOAT Magnus Carlsen to super-secret-quadruple blitz overtime before finally bowing to Carlsen in the 2016 FIDE World Chess Championship is poised to win his fourth consecutive United States Championship at the St...
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Over 150 Years of Championship History [Editor’s Note: This article also appears at Golf Course Trades. Our Indomitable Sportsman Jay Flemma takes us back to northwest England’s Royal Liverpool Golf Club, this time for a walk though over 150 years of golf...
[Editor’s Note: Besides being a member of NASJA, Jay is also the sitting vice president.] The North American Snowsports Journalists Association will be hosting both their annual meeting and a professional development webinar live in Boston, Massachusetts on Thursday, November 13 at...
I told everyone so, but nobody wanted to hear it. And now boy genius Keegan Bradley and his band of overpaid, underprepared American Ryder Cuppers have been treated like Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators: hang, drawn, quartered, and their limbs posted upon spikes atop the ball...
The Open Championship Chronicles and Beyond Part 2 – Royal Birkdale, West Lancashire, Southport and Ainsdale, Wallasey, and Hillside [Editor’s Note: Our Indomitable Sportsman Jay Flemma continues his adventures along England’s fabled Golf Coast. Enchanting and spellbinding, the northwest...
OGDEN, UT – The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame kicked off their 2026 inductee announcement with a golf tournament more fun than sticking a 720 off a mogul at Snowbird. Goodie, bags, prizes, shirt-sleeve sunshine all day, and the warm camaraderie of our beloved sport coupled with a...
The one and only Rees Jones, “Open Doctor,” “PGA Physician,” and the man who, along with David Fey, resurrected Bethpage Black from a golf scrapheap to major championship and Ryder Cup glory, joins us for an in-depth look at Bethpage Black for the Ryder Cup...
BETHPAGE, NY – The incredible rags to riches story of Bethpage Black continues at light speed. The once shabby, shoddy, ill-kept state-run public links has risen like a vengeful phoenix to become a part of America’s informal major golf championship rotation, if one can be said to exist...
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):...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Stay tuned for more articles from the first UK trip. In the meantime, Golf Course Trades did a marvelous job – as usual – running my Insider’s Guide to Royal Liverpool story. Hoylake is an imperative for any budding golf historian or golf architect. The golf is a...
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...
[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...
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...