Environment & Health

Newport Rugby returns to Fort Adam’s State Park this Saturday at 1 pm with a clash against New Hampshire powerhouse, Amoskeag, to kick off their 2017 season. Coming off a successful season that took Newport to the New England Championship title game, the club has high expectations ahead of their 9-game season.  President, Chris Behan believes the coaching appointment of […]

Wimbledon champions Pat Cash and Michael Stich, along with Anders Jarryd and Tom Okker, who both won multiple doubles titles at Grand Slam tournaments, and Czech legend Helena Sukova, a 14-time major champion in doubles and mixed doubles, have been named candidates for induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2018, according to a press release from the International Tennis Hall of […]

On Thursday, August 31st, the de Ramel Foundation announced a gift of $500,000 to the Newport County YMCA to support the future of squash in Newport County. The partnership between the Newport County YMCA, RhodySquash and the de Ramel Foundation began February 1st, 2017. This relationship aligns three organizations with common goals of youth development, […]

The weather started out gloomy, then got downright nasty for the 13th edition of the Ida Lewis Distance Race, which started Friday, August 18 off Fort Adams State Park in Newport, R.I. A forecast calling for storms to pass over the race course during the night convinced seven of the original 40 entrants to drop out prior to the […]

The 38th Annual Panerai Newport Classic Yacht Regatta presented by IYRS returns August 26th and 27th to celebrate classic yachts, both power and sail, and the importance of the craft associated with their restoration. For the first time, immediately following the Herreshoff Classic Yacht Regatta, Newport Classic Yacht Regatta competitors will compete in a point-to-point race from Bristol to Newport. This […]

The list of registrants for the annual Ida Lewis Distance Race is growing daily.  Currently, 42 teams are signed up for the event’s 13th edition, scheduled for Friday, August 18. Ida Lewis Yacht Club has been hosting and running sailboat races all summer long, but this is its signature regatta, much adored by local sailors as well as those who […]

Summer storms did little to deter the runners and walkers that partook in the first-ever Topsail Realty Mt. Hope Bridge 5K on Saturday. While rain pelted volunteers during set up, the skies cleared just in time for the 7:30 AM start. The race, which took participants from Portsmouth to Bristol on a 3.1-mile course, was the first—ever pedestrian […]

The 40th Annual Fools’ Rules Regatta, scheduled for Saturday, August 12th, has been postponed to Sunday, August 13th. The event will still take place at the Town Beach at East Ferry in Jamestown. The cannon will be fired at 9:00 AM to begin construction of the “vessels”, the event is organized by the Jamestown Yacht […]

The first-ever Mt. Hope Bridge 5K will take place this Saturday, August 12th. The event, which was capped at 850 runners and walkers, sold out on Tuesday night. The race will start at 7:30 AM and will give runners and walkers the unique opportunity of crossing Mt. Hope Bay by foot on the historic Mt. Hope Bridge. Participants will be […]

NEWPORT, R.I. – Ending the 2017 New England Collegiate Baseball League campaign on a season-high seven-game winning streak, the Newport Gulls finished 20–22 overall, holding onto the fourth place spot in the Southern Division. Having four NECBL All-Stars, over 40,000 total fans attend 19 games at Cardines Field and two back-to-back walk-off victories, the Gulls […]

​ The champions in RIGA Amateur events keep getting younger and younger, although the record Addy Douglas set Friday could stand for a long time The 16-year-old from Newport Country Club who still has two years remaining at The Prout School became the youngest person to win the State Amateur when she held off Kibbe […]

Sailors couldn’t have asked for a sweeter experience at the 2017 Candy Store Cup Superyacht Edition. The event showcased some of the world’s most spectacular and technologically sophisticated luxury sailing yachts racing off Newport, R.I. on Thursday through Saturday (July 27-29) and provided three days of wildly varied conditions, courtesy of Mother Nature, as well as a full slate […]

The Volvo Ocean Race has unveiled a 10-strong squad of Onboard Reporters to tell the story of the toughest test of a team in professional sport. Featuring hardened media pros from six nations around the world, the group of Onboard Reporters for the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 includes award-winning adventure photographers, extreme sports filmmakers, the […]

Newport, R.I.— More than 1,800 runners, brewers, vendors and festival attendees basked in the sun at Fort Adams this past Saturday for the Craft Brew Races 5K and beer festival. Fifty local and regional craft breweries poured samples of their beer for thirsty runners, who had completed a 3.1-mile looping course around Fort Adams state park, as […]

Kim Clijsters, Andy Roddick, Monique Kalkman-van den Bosch, Steve Flink, and the late Vic Braden will be the recipients of tennis’ highest honor when they are inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame today (Saturday, July 22nd) at 12 pm.    A group of Hall of Fame tennis legends and a sold-out stadium of […]

For the second year running, the Candy Store Cup Superyacht Edition will showcase some of the world’s most spectacular yachts racing in a regatta designed specifically for them. The event, scheduled for Thursday through Saturday, July 27-29, is organized and hosted by Newport Shipyard and Bannister’s Wharf, which partnered last year to consolidate the Newport Bucket and Candy Store […]

As the second “Americas fleet” event in the ROAD TO THE WORLDS Waypoint Series, the Newport Trophy Regatta will take place July 20-23 in Newport, R.I. Hosted by Ida Lewis Yacht Club, the event is for 12 Metre yachts, which are collecting points in a global series leading up to the next 12 Metre World Championship, scheduled for Newport […]

NEWPORT, R.I. – Coaches and student-athletes from The American Athletic Conference (The American) will be in Newport on July 17th and 18th for the conference’s annual Summer Kickoff and Media Days. This is at least the 3rd year in a row that the conference has chosen to host its conference in Newport, in 2017 it […]

With exactly 100 days to go before the Volvo Ocean Race fleet departs Alicante to tackle 45,000 nautical miles around the world, Vestas 11th Hour Racing have unveiled their crew for the 2017-18 edition – and have built a mixed, ten-strong team featuring six nationalities and six previous Race wins. Among the crew is Newporter […]

The 371-foot long Le Grand Bleu, one of the largest private yachts in the world, arrived in Newport on Tuesday, July 11th. Le Grand Bleu was built for US telecommunications baron John McCaw and has been owned by Eugene Shvidler, a Russian-American oil businessman, since June 2006.  She was built at the Bremer Vulkan yard in Bremen, Germany, and was launched […]

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 […]

The Volvo Ocean Race Newport stopover in 2018 will be a main topic of discussion when the Special Legislative Commission to Study Methods for Growing Tourism in the State of Rhode Island Through Coordinated Branding and Marketing Efforts meets today. The meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m. in Suite 101 (the Narragansett Room) at the […]

For the second April in a row, New England Patriots players and alumni will visit the Naval War College in Newport, RI. Naval Station Newport’s Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) Department will host a New England Patriots Play 60 Event from 12 pm to 7 pm on Saturday, April 29th at Nimitz Football Field on the base.  This […]

Newport will welcome Charlie Enright (Bristol, RI) and Mark Towill (Hawaii) onboard Vestas 11th Hour Racing on Friday after their first transatlantic crossing on board their newest boat.   The Volvo Ocean Race sailors left Lisbon, Portugal on April 19 to complete offshore miles required to enter the ’round the world race in October and are […]

The Newport County YMCA has partnered with RhodySquash offering a permanent home for their program in Newport County, it’s being called a “perfect match with a combined focus on healthy living and social responsibilities” by both organizations. “RhodySquash provides an opportunity for the youth of our community to achieve their personal best through the integration […]

Hundreds of enthusiastic supporters turned out for the 2017 Newport Night Run on Saturday, April 1st., to participate in a 5K road race in support of the Newport Public Education Foundation. The 2017 Newport Night Run was the largest to date in the race’s four-year history, with 1200 runners registered. The event sold out more […]

NEWPORT, R.I. (March 30, 2017) – Sixteen years ago Robie Pierce and Stephanie and Judy McLennan had a conversation and as a result a year later, the C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta was on its way to becoming a internationally recognized regatta for disabled sailors.  Established in memory of Tom Clagett, The […]

Portsmouth, R.I. – US Sailing today named veteran business consultant and former 470 athlete Jim Campbell (Stoughton, Wisc.) as Chief Business Officer of U.S. Olympic Sailing. Campbell will be the first CBO in the US Sailing Team’s history, and will be focused on connecting needed funding to athletes, building a new performance system and helping to transform the Olympic sailing program […]

Portsmouth, R.I. – US Sailing, the national governing body for the sport, has named 18 Olympic-class athletes to the 2017 US Sailing Team. The national team is selected annually and is comprised of the top sailors competing in the events selected for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The roster is assembled from a combination of sailors who […]

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 […]