For Matt Bergel, this has been a spring to forget.
BOSTON (AP) — The overall number of confirmed COVID-19-related deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic climbed to 6,640 on Thursday as another 93 deaths were reported.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University will reduce its number of varsity sports from 38 to 29 in a move designed to make the Bears more competitive in the Ivy League.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's policy allowing transgender girls to compete as girls in high school sports violates the civil rights of athletes who have always identified as female, the U.S. Education Department has determined in a decision that could force the state to change course …
WESTERLY — Kylee Marley just wants to have an opportunity to play lacrosse.
HOPKINTON —When this year's Special Olympics state summer games at the University of Rhode Island were canceled due to the pandemic, Chariho High's Abby Cole knew she had to do something for her younger sister.
STONINGTON — A GoFundMe account established by Stonington High football coach A.J. Massengale is benefiting a member of the team.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two female athletes at Idaho State University want a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a new state law banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports, the first such law in the nation.
A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty Tuesday to bribing Georgetown University's former tennis coach $50,000 to get his daughter admitted as a fake athletic recruit.
There will be no American Legion baseball in Rhode Island this summer, but there could be baseball with an American Legion flavor.
WESTERLY — Leadership awards by their very nature would seem to be reserved for the most experienced players.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Liberty general manager Jonathan Kolb knew that he and first-year coach Walt Hopkins would have to make some tough decisions on the team's roster this year.
WESTERLY — Westerly High senior Abi Turano is not among the top performers in the school's girls track program.
WESTERLY — For most of us, talking at too high a volume would not inspire any compliments.
“Full House” star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, pleaded guilty Friday to paying half a million dollars to get their two daughters into the University of Southern California as part of a college admissions bribery scheme, but a judge has not decided whethe…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Roman Catholic bishop in New England says not even a Hail Mary is going to help Tom Brady win a seventh Super Bowl championship now that he's with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
BOSTON (AP) — Lori Loughlin, Mossimo Giannulli plead guilty in college admissions scam; judge weighing whether to allow or reject.
WESTERLY — Gerry Auth had been searching for ways to keep his children and those on the various travel baseball and softball teams he coaches busy.
Fatts Russell will be back in Kingston next season.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — John Pellegrino has been at this for some time.
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC's “Sunday Night Football” will finish as prime time's most-viewed series for the ninth consecutive year when the 2019-20 television season wraps up on Wednesday night.
ATLANTA (AP) — With an eye toward getting back on the field during a pandemic, the NFL is working on a helmet face guard that might provide the same sort of protection as a surgical mask.
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — “Peyton's Places,” an Emmy-nominated ESPN series in which Peyton Manning takes a lighthearted look at the history of the NFL, will return for a second season.
NEW YORK (AP) — WNBA teams will have to get their rosters down to 12 by May 26 so players can get paid starting June 1, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.
Fans who had been starving for live sporting events had their appetites somewhat sated last weekend.
Pressure wasn't limited to a closest-to-the-pin contest for six skins worth $1.1 million that Rory McIlroy won to wrap up the TaylorMade Driving Relief exhibition.
WESTERLY — Last spring, the Westerly High boys tennis team achieved the ultimate goal — the Bulldogs earned a championship.
The final episodes of “The Last Dance” have aired, yet ESPN has one more program to show about the Chicago Bulls' sixth championship.
A woman who was locked up for five months in a Spanish prison after her arrest in the college admissions bribery scheme won’t spend any more time behind bars, a judge ruled Monday.
EDITOR'S NOTE: B.J. Armstrong, a Los Angeles-based sports agent who played with the Chicago Bulls during the 1991, 1992 and 1993 championship seasons, offered perspective and analysis to The Associated Press throughout the airing of “The Last Dance" series. With the final two episodes airing…
STONINGTON — Two Stonington High cheerleaders have earned All-ECC first-team Division II recognition and a third received an honorable mention.
WESTERLY — Westerly High's girls lacrosse team appeared to have some big openings to fill this spring.
Phyllis George, the former Miss America who became a female sportscasting pioneer on CBS's “The NFL Today” and served as the first lady of Kentucky, has died. She was 70.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — In the college basketball recruiting game, the junior year is the most important year of the process.
NEW YORK (AP) — WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert is focusing on about a half dozen scenarios for the league to begin play this summer
More than 40 top-level professional tennis tournaments are off the sport's 2020 calendar because of the coronavirus pandemic as of Friday, when the men's and women's tours extended their breaks and the sport's Hall of Fame canceled its induction ceremony.
Westerly High will take on Chariho High in the first round on Wednesday.
STONINGTON — Natalie Lucy and her husband, John, were never ones to just drop off their children at practice or sit in the stands and watch on game day.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Lawyers for XFL owner Vince McMahon argued in court filings Wednesday that the wrestling magnet was justified in firing league CEO Oliver Luck last month just before the football operation shut down.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A federal judge has been asked to recuse himself from a lawsuit that seeks to block the participation of transgender athletes in girls’ sports after he ordered the plaintiffs' lawyers not to refer to them as biological males.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Theresa Feaster of Providence is the first woman on the coaching staff for the U.S. national junior team as video coach, a move announced Wednesday by USA Hockey.
CHARLESTOWN — For some, the exposure to volleyball usually goes like this: In the summer at a family gathering someone puts up a net and everyone joins in to play. Getting it across the net becomes an adventure. Some play seriously; most do not.
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — UConn and Mississippi State are scheduled to play in November's Hall of Fame Women’s Challenge basketball tournament in Connecticut.
WESTERLY — It was January and Westerly High senior Anna Cozzolino still didn't know where she was going to college.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — NCAA leading scorer Jack Dugan agreed Monday to turn pro and join the Vegas Golden Knights.
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn has agreed to a multi-year television deal that will put most of its home football games on CBS Sports Network, the school announced Monday.
The American Hockey League canceled the rest of its season Monday because of the coronavirus pandemic, shifting its focus toward an uncertain future.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Fans have made former defensive lineman Richard Seymour the newest member of the New England Patriots team Hall of Fame, the team announced Monday.
WESTERLY — It was January and Westerly High senior Anna Cozzolino still didn't know where she was going to college.
B.J. Armstrong might have played a role in the Chicago Bulls getting their 1996, 1997 and 1998 titles — even though he wasn't on those teams.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — The University of Rhode Island picked up another player from the transfer market on Saturday as guard Allen Betrand announced his committment on Instagram.
America’s Cup teams are returning to the water in varying degrees nearly two months after the coronavirus pandemic forced the shutdown of what would have been an impressive global road show.
WESTERLY — In softball, players have a responsibility to remind each other what is happening in the game. And they are duty-bound to motivate each other.
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) — Mary Pratt, who played for the Rockford Peaches and Kenosha Comets in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, has died. She was 101.
STONINGTON — Stonington High's Zach Scott had pretty much decided college basketball was not going to be in his future.
The presidents of the 11 members of the Big East Conference are leaning toward not allowing sports to be played at schools this season unless their campuses are open.
No fastballs popping catcher’s mitts. No spikes slamming into the floor. No sidearm blasts finding the back of the lacrosse net.