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...
[Author’s Note: Earlier this week, Jay celebrated his 20th anniversary as a sports writer. There will be special articles throughout the holiday season and beyond here, at jayflemma.com, iHeartRadio, Golf Course Trades, NASJA, and all of Jay’s other sports writing outlets. For today, our plucky, puckish, irreverent, and inimitable storyteller pal – “that loveable...
Huge news:Â Golf News Net is now a TV station. Yes, you’ll be seeing me make show appearances. I’ll also have Jay Flemma Sports Report rocking special guest episodes all the rest of the season. Here’s the detailed press release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Golf News Net (GNN), a leading golf media company focused on news and entertainment content, and...
Not one but two new Jay Flemma Sports Report shows have dropped recently, so here are the links. Skiing in Argentina/Open Championship and USGA Mid-Am Redux Our first guest was Aaron Schorsch of Saveur the Journey, the skiing, fishing, and culinary travel outfit that showed me around Argentina. It was an absolutely gold standard experience on every level –...
It’s been a hot start to 2023 on Jay Flemma Sports Report on iHeartRadio. First, we preview the turn of the PGA Tour season and its West Coast swing with Editor, Producer, and owner of Golf News Net, Ryan Ballengee, before turning to a discussion of the venues for the four majors, including the changes to Augusta, new venue L.A. Country Club for the U.S. Open...
At long last, here are the links to listen live to Golf News Net Radio. Better still we’ve got all new shows featuring special guests T.J. Auclair, Richard Hurley, Gary Van Sickle, and Ryan Ballengee. We’ve covered everything from next year’s major venues to player of the year, to LIV golf, and more. Join in all the fun live or by streaming your...
Ryan Ballangee did a terrific job getting my Stratton Mountain article ready for pub over at GolfTripX, the travel wing of GolfNewsNet. The link is here. We’ll have one more in that series soon: Mount Sunapee and Lake Sunapee Country Club and – WOW! – did we ever hit the jackpot. After that, starting Tuesday August 4, we’ll be coming at you...
Thanks to my gang over at Golf News Net for running my latest piece. We took a look at the most interesting courses we’ll see this year form the USGA, PGA of America, and the PGA Tour. It’s going to be a busy golf season here, and it’s almost time to gear up. We’ll be covering the Masters, PGA, U.S. Open, and Ryder Cup this year. But before...
Golf News Net and GolfTripX are hosting a reader and fan fun trip to…drum roll please…Tennessee! (Ain’t no place I’d rather be/Baby, won’t you carry me…). Ryan Ballengee and the GolfTripX guys found this 9-holer designed by the King-Collins firm called Sweetens Cove that has fantastic movement in the earth, terrific green contours...
[Editor’s Note: We’ll be filing two game stories this week, one during the first three days of play and our usual tournament recap for Sunday night. You can follow all the action at Golf News Net and here.] The Masters is the greatest sporting event of the year: period, full stop, end of sentence, end of paragraph. Not the Super Bowl, not the World...
Golf News Net has our latest radio show featuring European correspondent Tony Dear and Pittsburgh’s beloved Marino Parascenzo. We talked Patrick Reed, post-Masters, pre-U.S. Open and more.
Double good news over at Golf News Net today. First, they have published my Fenway Golf Club article. Short but dangerous, and always interesting around the greens, Fenway belongs in the Pantheon of great Tillinghast courses. Next, Steve Eubanks of Global Golf Post joined me on the Jay’s Plays Radio show. We talked PGA, LPGA, Tiger, golf travel and –...
MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ – Last Thursday saw the 10th annual Writer Cup between Philadelphia/NJ and Greater New York City golf writers end in yet another Philly romp. Yet as Philly Captain Mike Kern of the Inquirer was again drenched in metaphoric victory champagne and as his players were wreathed in the smoky fog of proverbial victory cigars for the eighth time in...
Ryan Ballengee has this story about the surreptitious…and disconcerting…adjustment of Euro Tour players’ drivers while the clubs are stored for the night. Ballengee reported that a number of players, including rising European Tour star Bernd Weisberger, had their driver settings adjusted while the clubs were stored for the night at Le Club National...