Great R.I. Hockey Hall of Fame induction dinner Saturday night, honoring Joe Augustine, Bill Bennett, Vicki Movsessian-Lamoriello, Tim Regan & Chuck Scherra

Strong showing by Hendricken grad XAVIER TRUSS and his Georgia Bulldogs teammates in a 34-3 season-opening victory over Clemson on Saturday.

Back where it all started. Today, we welcomed Joe Mazzulla ‘06 back to Hawk Country along with the Larry O’Brien Trophy! 🏀🏆

Great starting pitching performance by former Hendricken star MIKE KING leading the S.D. Padres to a 4-0 victory over the Braves Tuesday in the first game of their NL Wild Card series. King struck out 12 and only allowed five hits in 7-innings of shutout pitching.

RIP – LOU MARCIANO – A man of character; a legendary wrestling and football coach at Mt. Pleasant High in the 1950s & 60s; a WWII veteran and a Great American

RIP – JOE GILMARTIN – A great coach/teacher and one of the finest gentlemen I met in all my decades of covering high school football for the ProJo

Congratulations to coach JIM FLEMING and the URI football team for earning a berth in the 24-team NCAA FCS tournament. Eleven years ago, Coach Fleming made a commitment to make URI football a source of pride for Rhode Islanders. It hasn’t been easy but he has done it.

LIAM COEN, the son of a high school football coach and the best high school quarterback I saw in 50 years of writing about Rhode Island HS football, was destine to someday be an NFL head coach. That day happened this week when the Jacksonville Jaguars named him their head coach.

Great to see that LIAM COEN, the Jacksonville Jaguars’ new head coach and former La Salle All-Stater will be in RI on March 7th to speak at the annual Big N.E. Football Clinic in Newport. The Big N.E. Football Clinic is run by Keith Kenyon, the former NK high football coach & AD.

The AMP is the perfect location for the La Salle-Hendricken DI basketball title game. Tuesday, March 4 at 8 pm

It was a pleasure writing the Cavanagh Family story that was published this week-end on the R.I. Hockey Hall of Fame website RIHHOF.com/the-cavanagh-f…

Check-out the bios of the R.I. National Football Foundation 2025 Scholar/Athletes. It is an impressive group of young men. They will be honored Monday night at the Inn at The Crossing in Warwick emodinittoriff.com

Great night honoring R.I. Chapter National Football Foundation Scholar/Athletes Monday. The future of R.I. and the country is in good shape with impressive young men like them among the 2025 high school graduating class emodinittoriff.com

RIP former Hendricken basketball coach STEVE CESERETTI, a great guy and a legend among Rhode Island high school basketball coaches.

Great Op-Ed piece by Pulitzer prize-winning author Tracy Kidder “America is Rewriting the Social Contract” in the Sunday (7/20) New York Times. Kidder is the author of several outstanding books, including my favorite “Mountains Beyond Mountains”

Good piece in the 8/5 N.Y. Times/Athletic on how Jacksonville Jaguars coach and Rhode Island native LIAM COEN is challenging quarterback Trevor Lawrence

Good piece in NY Times/The Athletic today (9/7) on how La Salle grad LIAM COEN, now head coach of Jacksonville Jaguars, is getting Travis Hunter ready to be an NFL two-way player.

Good piece in 9/9 NY Times/The Athletic on former Providence Classical High baseball All-Stater JEREMY PENA. Pena’s performance this season is playing a major role in Houston leading the ALWest standings.

RIP former Montreal Canadiens goalie KEN DRYDEN, one of the greatest hockey goalies of all-time. I saw him playing against the Providence Reds at R.I Auditorium in the 1970-71 season when he was playing for the AHL Montreal Voyageurs. I knew that night he was headed for greatest

RIP hockey Hall of Fame goalie EDDIE GIACOMIN who I watched play at the R.I Auditorium when he was the Providence Reds regular goaltender for five years in the 1960’s.