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PowerShares Series Tennis, the circuit for champion tennis players over the age of 30, announced its full 2017 circuit of events to include 10 events, starting March 30 in Toronto, Canada. The 2017 PowerShares Series will also again partner alongside ATP and WTA events in Charleston, S.C., Newport, R.I., Winston-Salem, N.C., and New Haven, Conn. […]

MAPFRE has announced that they will once again take part in the Volvo Ocean Race, they are the third team to confirm their presence on the start line of the 2017-2018 edition of the offshore race. MAPFRE thus continues as a sponsor, having begun with the team in the 2011-2012 race, with a more secondary presence, […]

The Newport Gulls will kick off their 17th season here in Newport on Wednesday, June 7th! The Newport Gulls announced on their website on Tuesday the dates and details for their 2017 regular season. Newport Gulls Announce 2017 Summer Schedule  It is that time of the year again folks! The time when we can officially […]

Sail Newport has announced that New England Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick has donated his powerboat to the community sailing center. The non-profit public Sailing Center, will use the 24′ Grady White vessel “V Rings” in its youth and adult sailing programs, regattas and sailing events on Narragansett Bay. “We are thrilled and grateful to Coach Belichick […]

The Volvo Ocean Race will give sports fans an extra Christmas present in 2017 after adding Melbourne to the route for the forthcoming edition starting in October. The change to the 2017-18 route, announced on Friday morning in Melbourne, means the Race will visit Australia for the eighth time – but for the first in […]

By winning the final race of the highly competitive 52 Super Series and with it the class championship, Doug De Vos’(Ada, MI) Quantum Racing was awarded Boat of the Weekhonors at the 30th anniversary Quantum Key West Race Week hosted by the Storm Trysail Club. Quantum Racing was placed sixth in the pro-laden class at mid-week, […]

At the midpoint of the 30th anniversary Quantum Key West Race Week Narragansett Bay sailors are featuring in several class battles. In the J/70 Class, the largest class at race week with 42 entrants, it looked as if Carlo Alberini’s Calvi Network from Italy was charting a course to a third consecutive class victory. Then […]

Narragansett Bay sailors have made their annual migration to Key West, Fla., for the 30th anniversary Quantum Key West Race Week. There’s no doubting the beauty of racing in the Bay but at this time of year few places are better than the southernmost point of the continental U.S. One of the top sailors from […]

A squad of 54 college seniors selected from 22 NCAA Division III schools have come together in Mexico to form ‘Team Stars & Stripes’ for the eighth annual Tazón De Estrellas this week. Among the 54 players is Salve Regina University’s Middle Linebacker and Team Captain, Ethan Gambale. Gambale, an All-NEFC Second Team Linebacker and NEFC Academic […]

Competitors who successfully completed and set new records for the  Mount Gay Rum Around Jamestown Record  were recognized at a prize giving party hosted by the IYAC in Newport, RI this past Friday, December 9th. During the span of the five month long competition, 4 attempts were made at ousting the standing record, and Zach Marks […]

The International 12 Metre Class has announced the ROAD TO THE WORLDS, a 900-day schedule of international regattas and social events leading up to what will arguably be one of the most highly anticipated Metre yachting events since the America’s Cup Jubilee in 2001: the 2019 12 Metre World Championship in Newport, R.I. Scheduled for […]

This Saturday, the Salve Regina football team will play arguably it’s most important game ever as the Seahawks square off at home against top-ranked Western New England.  With a win, the Seahawks could make history as the first team to ever win a conference championship for the program and a berth in the Division III […]

A new outright record was set Friday, October 28 for the Mount Gay Rum Around Jamestown Record. Zach Marks of St. Petersburg, Florida, rode his foiling kiteboard around Jamestown with an elapsed time of 53 minutes and 37 seconds. This bests the previous record of 00:56:33, held by Lloyd Thornburg’s Mod70 Phaedo3, by 2 minutes […]

Fifteen national champion teams from around the world have assembled for the first-ever Red Bull Foiling Generation World Final in Newport. The brainchild of sports directors Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher, Red Bull Foiling Generation gives wings to talented sailors aged 16-20 by introducing them to the type of cutting-edge foiling technology used in […]

Two Years of Qualifiers Lead into First Ever Red Bull Foiling Generation World Finals, Founded and Led by Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalists Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher The world’s best competitive sailing youth, ages 16-20, from across the globe are officially on their way to United States East Coast sailing hub, Newport, Rhode Island, […]