Salve Regina senior wide receiver Antonio Guzzo [Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.] completed a tryout over the weekend with the Manchester Wolves of the arenafootball, a member league of the Arena Football League.

Unlike most New England sports fan, I spent last Wednesday night laying back in a LA-Z boy recliner watching a Boston Celtics game. As I watched the Celtics coast to an easy 109-88 victory over the Atlanta Hawks, I could not help but wonder if anyone else even was watching the game, or if anyone else cared about it.

With half a pick and wooden acoustic the Vermont based artist, Syd, commenced an “evening of heartbreak” in the Wakehurst student lounge turned coffeehouse this past Wednesday evening. His music reflected a past of “premarital affairs,” with lyrics that took us from the woods of Vermont to the city streets of Boston, which Syd, a recent college graduate of Emerson, described as “a great town to go to school in and also a great town to get dumped in.

Newport does not struggle to attract an elite crowd, and according to Vogue magazine, which has been in publication since 1892, Newport has always been a fashionable city. Showing off its stylish roots, The Preservation Society of Newport is focusing its yearly themed exhibit on just that: Newport in Vogue.

Go kayaking off the coast of Narragansett. Take a skiing trip to Loon Mountain. Go sailing in Newport harbor. Play some tennis at the International Tennis Hall of Fame, or head to the fairway at the Newport National Golf Club.

Did you know that you can do all of these activities if you are in Rhode Island? Most of them are right in Newport, a city rich with tourism.