WESTERLY — Westerly High's Jawarie Hamelin has considered going to prep school for some time.
Jason Garrett wasn't interested in sitting around for a year after the Dallas Cowboys didn't renew his contract as their head coach after 10 years in charge.
Tampa Bay Rays (9-8, second in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox (6-10, fifth in the AL East)
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — John Pellegrino delivered a walk-off single to drive in the winning run in the eighth inning as Chariho beat South Kingstown, 9-8, in a Connie Mack state tournament baseball game Sunday at Old Mountain field.
CRANSTON — The Rhody Wave Runners 12U softball team adavanced to the quarterfinals of the CLCF Summer Slam tournament on Sunday before losing to Apponaug, 5-4.
WESTERLY — Unbeaten Rumford defeated the Shoreline Surfers, 6-4 and 4-1, in an AAU 10U baseball doublheader Saturday at Cimalore Field.
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Alyssa Thomas scored 21 points, Jasmine Thomas had 15 points and seven assists and the Connecticut Sun beat the Atlanta Dream 93-82 on Monday night.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — UConn freshman Paige Bueckers marched for racial justice in her home state of Minnesota after the death of George Floyd and says she plans to continue using her voice for social change now that she's at Connecticut.
Free agency has not been good to linebacker Markus Golden.
One month into the season and the WNBA bubble seems to be working.
Carolina Hurricanes (38-25-5, fourth in the Metropolitan Division during the regular season) vs. Boston Bruins (44-14-12, first in the Atlantic Division during the regular season)
Tampa Bay Rays (8-8, third in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox (6-9, fourth in the AL East)
The Chariho Litttle League is back to play games at Dow Field in Hope Valley.
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (AP) — Carroll Hardy, a multi-sport star best known as the only man ever to pinch hit for Ted Williams, died Sunday at age 87.
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Wacha has been placed on the injured list because of right shoulder inflammation three starts into his one-year contract with the New York Mets.
Learning a new position. A broken left ankle.
Toronto Blue Jays (5-7, fourth in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox (5-9, fifth in the AL East)
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Allie Quigley scored 22 points and Cheyenne Parker scored 20 and the Chicago Sky beat the Connecticut Sun 100-93 on Saturday.
Boston Bruins (44-14-12, first in the Atlantic Division during the regular season) vs. Washington Capitals (41-20-8, first in the Metropolitan Division during the regular season)
Toronto Blue Jays (4-7, fourth in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox (5-8, fifth in the AL East)
RICMOND — Rob Charette, of Coventry, claimed the gross championship of the South Eastern New England Senior Golf Association in July.
Toronto Blue Jays (4-6, fourth in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox (4-8, fifth in the AL East)
WESTERLY — Westerly High senior football players Mike Garafola and Connor Martin were looking forward to this year's Thanksgiving Day game for very special reasons.
Fall sports for Rhode Island high schools will begin Oct. 2, nearly a month after its scheduled start this season, according to a plan unveiled by the Rhode Island Interscholastic League on Wednesday.
NORTH PROVIDENCE — The Rhody Wave Runners earned three wins before losing in the semifinals of the North Providence 12U Velocity Tournament last weekend.
SEEKONK, Mass. — Stephen Maynard struck out 12 and allowed just one run as the Shoreline Surfers baseball team swept a doubleheader against KR Express last Saturday.
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Brionna Jones scored 17 points and Alyssa Thomas scored 15 to help Connecticut get its first win of the season with a 91-68 rout of the Dallas Wings on Thursday night.
Daniel Jones is facing a much different challenge in his second season with the New York Giants.
Joe Judge is doing more than teach football to the New York Giants in his first training camp as the coach of a franchise that has fallen on hard times.
The announcements came within 40 minutes of each other Wednesday morning, one bleak, the other providing a glimmer of hope for a college football season that is looking iffy at best right now.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — UConn canceled its 2020-2021 football season Wednesday, becoming the first FBS program to do so because of the coronavirus pandemic, after other schools had taken the Huskies off their schedules and the governor was reluctant to allow players to travel to states with h…
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Newly independent UConn becomes 1st FBS team to cancel football season because of coronavirus.
Boston Red Sox (3-8, fifth in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (5-6, third in the AL East)
The looming decision on what high school sports might look like this fall in Rhode Island is on the minds of many.
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Breanna Stewart scored 22 points and hit three of Seattle's 11 3-pointers as the Storm beat the Connecticut Sun 87-74 on Tuesday night.
WNBA teams are scoring at a breakneck pace through the first week of the season with six teams reaching the 100-point mark through the first 24 games.
Tampa Bay Lightning (43-21-6, second in the Atlantic Division during the regular season) vs. Boston Bruins (44-14-12, first in the Atlantic Division during the regular season)
Boston Red Sox (3-7, fifth in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (4-6, fourth in the AL East)
Former wrestling star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said he has acquired the XFL.
Sue Bird will be sidelined for a bit as she recovers from a bone bruise in her left knee.
TORONTO (AP) — Andrei Svechnikov kept on the attack, both in skating with a physical edge and continuing to fire pucks at the net.
STONINGTON — Five area schools will be absorbed by the ECC in order to develop high school sports schedules for the fall.
Boston Red Sox (3-6, fifth in the AL East) vs. New York Yankees (6-1, first in the AL East)
The good news is Matthew Walker is finally healthy.
NARRAGANSETT — Chariho's Connie Mack baseball team picked up a pair of wins over the weekend and finished tied for first in the league standings.
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Sylvia Fowles had 21 points and 13 rebounds, Napheesa Collier added 17 points, nine rebounds and four blocks, and the Minnesota Lynx beat the Connecticut Sun 78-69 on Saturday.
“Boston Strong” remains a “vibrant” rallying cry more than seven years after the marathon bombing killed three people and injured more than 260 others, a federal appeals court noted as it threw out the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Less than a week after left tackle Nate Solder opted out of the season, the New York Giants extended the contract of third-year tackle Nick Gates.
Boston Red Sox (3-5, fifth in the AL East) vs. New York Yankees (5-1, first in the AL East)
STONINGTON — For the first time in almost a century, Westerly High and Stonington High will not play each other in a football game scheduled for Thanksgiving Day, another victim to the coronavirus pandemic.
HARTFORD (AP) — The governing body of high school sports in Connecticut publicly released its plans for restarting interscholastic sports this fall, proposing a shortened season that officials said will be “fluid” based on changing COVID-19 health metrics.
WESTERLY — Manny Arriaga hit a walk-off, three-run homer in the bottom of the seventh lifting Blackout/Amigo's past Apice/Shoreline, 15-13, in the Westerly Men's Softball League Wednesday at Craig Field.
HARTFORD — Stonington's Lucas Huesman finished first in a pair of events during the Tuesday Night Criterium Series at Rentschler Field.
The governing body of high school sports in Connecticut publicly released its plans for restarting interscholastic sports this fall, proposing a shortened season that officials said will be “fluid” based on changing COVID-19 health metrics.
A federal appeals court Friday threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — With the coronavirus pandemic affecting sailing as much as it has other sports, an American-based team planning to compete in the next Ocean Race will relocate from France back to Rhode Island.
GRAND BLANC, Mich. (AP) — Tommy Armour III had been playing enough golf during the pandemic to know his game was in good shape. All he needed was a spot in the Ally Challenge to show it Friday.