Environment & Health

National beer and running event series, the Craft Brew Races, returns for its hometown event in Newport. The series, which consists of a 5K run followed by a beer festival featuring both local and regional breweries, will make its second to last stop on the 2017 calendar at Fort Adams State Park on July 22nd. The […]

The George Donnelly Sunset League (GDSL) has announced their third Hall of Fame class. “The class of 2017 is made up people that greatly contributed to the GDSL,” Chris La Rose. Commissioner of the GDSL told What’sUpNewp. The following people have been selected for induction. Dalton Springler as a player/manager, Bill Heffernen as a player, […]

Tyler Green’s RBI sacrifice fly and Andrew Daschbach’s RBI single in the top of the 16th inning pushed the Newport Gulls past the New Bedford Bay Sox by a final score of 7–5 on Thursday night. Reliever David Palmer earned the win throwing the last inning scoreless. Daschbach led the Gulls with three hits as […]

Things began and ended pretty quickly for Gulls starting pitcher Reid Anderson as he recorded just one out and gave up three earned runs before leaving the game. After walking the first batter of the contest on four straight pitches, Danbury’s Jake Wilson launched a double down the left field line, which bounced into the […]

On Saturday, June 17 at 5 pm, France will return to challenge USA, and put its most recent victory on the line in the NBC10 Newport International Polo Series, Presented by BMW. Playing for France will captain Olivier Girard, France’s highest rated player, who will field a competitive team from the south of France.  “This team is […]

Nine former Newport Gulls have been selected through the first two days of the 2017 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Since 2013, 65 former Gulls have been drafted into the MLB. Outfielder Quinn Brodey, a member of the Gulls in 2015, was selected by the New York Mets with the 97th overall pick in […]

The Volvo Ocean Race will switch from a 3-year to a 2-year cycle after the upcoming 2017-18 edition, a change that will provide more continuity and more commercial value for professional sailing teams, sponsors and Host Cities.  Confirmation of the change will mean at least some race activity in every calendar year, from now on […]

Liam O’Regan hit his third home run of the season but the Newport Gulls fell to the Danbury Westerners, 6–1 on Tuesday night at Rogers Park. Newport starting pitcher David Palmer received the loss hurling six innings, allowing two earned runs on four hits with seven strikeouts. The Westerners took a 1–0 lead in the […]

The sixth confirmed team out of a possible eight for the upcoming edition will amplify United Nations Environment’s ‘Clean Seas: Turn the Tide on Plastic’ campaign throughout the eight months of the race, which covers 45,000 nautical miles of racing around the world, taking in 12 Host Cities on six continents, the Volvo Ocean Race […]

Documentary Chronicles Media Pioneer Ted Turner’s Quest to Win the 1977 America’s Cup in Newport. NBC Sports Films will premiere Courageous, a one-hour documentary which chronicles media pioneer and sailing maverick Ted Turner’s quest to win the 1977 America’s Cup, this Saturday (June 17th) at 2:30 p.m. on NBC. The special will air immediately following NBC’s […]

Newport starting pitcher Trevor Tinder earned his first win of the season, striking out nine batters over five scoreless innings to lead the Gulls to a 2–0 victory over the Mystic Schooners on Monday night. The Gulls outhit the Schooners 6–4 in the ballgame. In the first inning, Newport took an early 1–0 lead as […]

The International 12 Metre Class (ITMA) has released locations and dates for the ROAD TO THE WORLDS WAYPOINTS Series, a three-year international 12 Metre (12mR) yacht competition starting in May of 2017 and culminating with the July 2019 12 Metre World Championship in Newport. Teams racing at specific WAYPOINTS-designated events in Northern Europe, Southern Europe, […]

The Volvo Ocean Race has launched a major Sustainability Programme for the 2017-18 edition and beyond – signing partnerships with 11th Hour Racing, AkzoNobel and United Nations Environment while outlining a series of commitments that focus on ocean health. The race is putting sustainability at its heart and focusing on taking action to help ‘Turn […]

This morning, the Volvo Ocean Race revealed a series of announcements that will outline the future vision of the race for the next decade and beyond. They call it the most radical shake-up since the race began in 1973 as the Whitbread Round the World Race. The Volvo Ocean Race has solved the question of […]

The fifth entry to the 2017-18 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race will sail under the name Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag and will represent Hong Kong, Volvo Ocean Race announced in a press release today. The campaign will be backed by Seng Huang Lee and Sun Hung Kai & Co., the Hong Kong-based owner of […]

Defending Champion Ivo Karlovic, two-time champions John Isner and Rajeev Ram, and Sam Querrey, who was a finalist in 2009, are the first four players to commit to the player field for the 2017 Dell Technologies Hall of Fame Open, event organizers announced on Thursday. The four players have a strong history at Newport’s annual ATP […]

Individuals who would love to work on the luxury superyachts that visit Newport each summer before taking off for warm-water ports come fall now have a free training program to give them the skills needed for entry-level jobs in the charter-yacht industry. The Rhode Island Marine Trades Association (RIMTA), in partnership with Ship to Shore […]

For the first time ever, runners and walkers will have the opportunity to cross the historic Mt. Hope Bridge by foot at the brand-new Mt. Hope Bridge 5K. The inaugural Mt. Hope Bridge 5K Road Race will be held on August 12th, 2017. The event is hosted by the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority […]