The University of Rhode Island football team held off Central Connecticut State University for a 27-19 victory in the opening round of the Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs on Saturday, eliminating CCSU at Meade Stadium for the second straight year and earning a spot in the second round. Rhody entered the postseason after clinching an outright…
The University of Rhode Island football team defeated Hampton University 38-10 in the final game of the regular season on Saturday to punch its ticket to the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs. Rhode Island came into the game with a 9-2 record and a perfect 7-0 mark in Coastal Athletic Association play. The Rams were…
Football FINAL (11/15): University of Rhode Island 45-13 University of Maine Football traveled to take on Maine for its final road game of the season on Saturday. The Rams held a 28-7 lead by halftime and controlled the game throughout. Fifth-year running back Antwain Littleton Jr. rushed for 202 yards and two touchdowns, while fifth-year…
For the final week this year, all 14 teams in the Coastal Athletic Association clashed in conference play. Each week, The Good Five Cent Cigar Sports Staff comes up with its cumulative ranking of CAA football teams. Here is how the CAA stacks up at the end of week 12: 14th Place: University at Albany…
Trystan Levesque’s impressive career with the University of Rhode Island baseball team resulted in him hearing his name called in a draft, just not the MLB one. Levesque ’25 is the all-time leader in career starts for the Rams with 52; he is also second all-time in strikeouts with 310 and in wins with 24….
Seventh-year guard Tyler Cochran has found his final home in his collegiate basketball career with the University of Rhode Island, bringing a veteran presence to a completely new starting lineup. Averaging the second-most playing time on URI’s 2025-26 roster with 29.4 minutes per game through five contests, one wouldn’t think that Cochran was out with…
Fifth-year Antwain Littleton Jr. arrived in Kingston this season and got the starting running back job for the University of Rhode Island football team, and he never looked back as he quickly burst onto the scene for the Rams. Littleton Jr. spent his first three years at the University of Maryland before transferring to…
Second-year center Albina Syla has been a standout for the University of Rhode Island women’s basketball team this season, sitting inside the top five in points, rebounds and blocks per game. Syla began her basketball career back home in Vantaa, Finland, where she started playing at a very young age. “It was really good [in…
University of Rhode Island fourth-year defensive back Sarah Yee appeared in 73 games over her four-year career, and in the 85th minute of her 66th game, she scored her first collegiate goal. Yee’s hometown is listed as Barrington, Rhode Island, a 50-minute drive to campus, but she originally grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts, until…
The University of Rhode Island’s men’s hockey team played its final home games against George Mason University this weekend before beginning a two-month stretch on the road. Rhody took care of business in the opener on Friday with a dominant 3-1 victory, then followed it up the next night with a 4-2 win on Saturday…