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The Portsmouth girls’ tennis team beat Tiverton, 6-1, during a Division 2 home match Friday afternoon. The Patriots improved to 6-1, while the Tigers fell to 4-4. Portsmouth, which moved down …

PORTSMOUTH — From members of championship football and soccer teams to a future NFL player, Portsmouth High School’s newest Athletic Hall of Fame class covers plenty of ground. Seven former …

PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High School’s boys’ soccer team came up just short against Barrington on Saturday, falling 3-2 in a matchup of two of the state’s top teams. The loss was the …

PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High School football team got its first taste of competition Thursday, Sept. 3, edging host Rogers, 7-0, in an Injury Fund game. …

On a warm July morning at the Gardner Seveney Sports Complex, a group of young soccer players were doing what young soccer players tend to do when given a soccer ball: They ran around, kicked it, chased it and occasionally kicked it in a direction that was not particularly useful.

The Barrington Little League 10U All-Star baseball team came up just short of winning the District II Championship on Friday night. Barrington dropped the final game of the district tournament, 7-6 …

PORTSMOUTH — Sean Gray had one goal when he stepped onto the track Saturday at the Rhode Island outdoor track and field state championships.

The Portsmouth High School boys lacrosse team completed its championship mission Saturday, defeating Westerly 10-6 to capture a second consecutive Rhode Island Division II title at Brown University.

PORTSMOUTH — Competing on their home track, the Portsmouth High School boys and girls outdoor track teams delivered a weekend full of fast times, big jumps and near-record performances at the RIIL …

PORTSMOUTH — There were college jerseys, school-colored balloons and plenty of cameras Thursday afternoon inside the Portsmouth High School library, where family members, teammates and coaches …

PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth softball team outslugged Tiverton, 13-10, in a crossover game Saturday morning at Tiverton High School as the teams combined for 23 hits over seven innings. …

PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High School boys tennis team won its fourth match of the season, defeating Coventry 5-1 in a Division 3 home match Tuesday afternoon. “Despite the challenges of …

The Mt. Hope High School golf team suffered its first loss in six matches to date when the Huskies teed it up at Rhode Island Country Club with Portsmouth against the home side from Barrington in an …

PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High School girls’ softball team beat Barrington 6-2 in a Division II home game on a brisk afternoon Wednesday, April 8. Since dropping its season opener to South …

PORTSMOUTH — There are many ways to support your local veterans. You can attend a ceremony. You can write a check. Or you can lock hands with a stranger and attempt to slam their arm into a table …

PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High School unified basketball team is off and running. The Patriots opened the season with back-to-back wins, edging Tiverton, 55-53, at home on March 17 before …

PORTSMOUTH — Portsmouth’s championship basketball hopes ended Saturday at the Ryan Center at URI — one in heartbreaking fashion, the other under relentless defensive pressure. The …

PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High School girls’ basketball team will be looking to avenge its loss earlier this month to top-seeded Westerly when it takes on the Bulldogs in the semifinals of …

Portsmouth came back twice and finally beat pesky Classical 51-48 in the state elite eight in front of a packed field house at home on Wednesday night. Portsmouth, who won the Division-1 title last …

Threatened with physical abuse on and off the field of play, accosted in the restroom or even at the gas pump. Those are a few of the incidents recited by local athletic officials as they seek the …

As referees in athletics at all levels increasingly face not just verbal, but physical abuse by attendees of events, state legislators have offered up what is a harsh, though likely necessary …

PROVIDENCE — The noise inside Amica Mutual Pavilion Friday night started as a roar, then swelled into something closer to disbelief.

PORTSMOUTH — Why not us? The Portsmouth High School boys’ basketball team will have a chance to win its first-ever Division I state title when it faces La Salle Academy Friday, March 6, at 8 …

PORTSMOUTH — Two Portsmouth ice skaters will share the spotlight with one of the sport’s biggest names this weekend when they perform in a major New England ice show headlined by Olympic …

PORTSMOUTH — Gymnasts from Portsmouth High School delivered a strong performance Saturday, earning second place in Division I at the Rhode Island high school gymnastics championship held at the …

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A lifelong Portsmouth resident, Jim graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1982 and earned a journalism degree from the University of Rhode Island in 1986. He's worked two different stints at East Bay Newspapers, for a total of 18 years with the company so far. When not running all over town bringing you the news from Portsmouth, Jim listens to lots and lots and lots of music, watches obscure silent films from the '20s and usually has three books going at once. He also loves to cook crazy New Orleans dishes for his wife of 25 years, Michelle, and their two sons, Jake and Max.