Sports
RMN dispatches tagged Sports.
Are We Making Sports Better at the Expense of Making Them Fun?
Reported Feature
A Harvard examination asks whether data-driven strategies are improving competition while making the games themselves more predictable.
Run the Stadium
Reported Feature
The nationwide guide to 5Ks, field finishes, ballpark laps and unforgettable college football runs
Bagpipes, Caber Tosses and Whiskey: South Jersey Celtic Festival Returns for Two Days in Burlington County
Event Burlington County Fairgrounds · Columbus, New Jersey
The fifth annual festival brings Highland Games, Celtic music and dance, Gaelic lessons, Irish stick fighting, hurling, food and a full slate of family activities to the Burlington County Fairgrounds Oct. 10 and 11.
Football Fans Know Their Lucky Socks Probably Don't Matter. But Why Risk It?
Reported Feature
A new survey suggests game-day superstition is often less about belief than about participation, control and traditions that can outlive the people who started them.
Sparta’s Thanksgiving ‘Tradition Before the Tradition’ Returns for Its 20th Year
Event Krogh's Restaurant & Brew Pub · Sparta, New Jersey
The Sparta Education Foundation Turkey Trot will bring runners, walkers and families to White Deer Plaza on Nov. 26, raising money for educational programs in the township’s public schools.
Bridgewater Keeps Showing Up in October: Somerset Patriots Alumni Help Yankees Sweep the Red Sox
Reported Event TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey
A night after Cam Schlittler and Ben Rice overwhelmed Boston in Game 1, Spencer Jones, George Lombard Jr., Austin Wells, Rice and Will Warren all had a hand in the 9-2 clincher. Across two Wild Card games, former Patriots were everywhere.
Bridgewater Built This Win: Former Somerset Patriots Carry Yankees Past Red Sox in Wild Card Opener
Reported Event TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey
Ben Rice tied a Yankees postseason RBI record, Cam Schlittler made October history, George Lombard Jr. joined rare company, and former Patriots accounted for 11 of New York’s 12 hits in a 9-0 Game 1 rout.
From Bridgewater to the Bronx: Somerset Patriots Take Center Stage in Yankees-Red Sox October
Reported Feature
Cam Schlittler starts Game 1 while Ben Rice, Austin Wells, Spencer Jones, George Lombard Jr., Anthony Volpe and Will Warren carry a little bit of Somerset into the postseason.
We Accidentally Turned Childhood Sports Into a Luxury Good
Reported Feature
When did 'my kid plays soccer' become a household budget category?
When Progress Mimics Art, Who Is Choosing the Future?
Reported Feature
Robot sports are real engineering. They are also a reminder that science fiction has become one of technology’s unofficial requirements documents.
Rutgers Just Put Central Jersey on a T-Shirt. Argument Over, Right?
Reported Event New Jersey
New Jersey has three regions, one official middle, and approximately nine million opinions about where any of them begin.
Somerset Patriot's All-Stars: Coby Morales and Garrett Martin Earn Their Place Among the Eastern League’s Best
Reported Event TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey
Morales turned a full season into the Patriots’ record book. Martin needed only 63 games to make his case.
At Some Point, Watching the Game Became the Smallest Part of Being a Sports Fan
Reported Feature
A new St. John’s University screening looks at the collision of sports with algorithms, gambling, NIL, influencer culture, AI, mental health and media. The striking part is not any one trend. It is how much of modern sports now happens around the game instead of inside it.
Best Merch in the Minor Leagues. Five Somerset Patriot's Shirts Made the Case in 2026.
Reported Feature
A soccer jersey, a Margaritaville Hawaiian shirt, the club’s first hockey jersey, a Sopranos bowling shirt, and a WWE championship-belt jersey turned five nights at TD Bank Ballpark into a wearable snapshot of Somerset Patriot's (Yankees AA) 2026 season.
The Best Golfer in the Room Doesn't Have to Win
Reported Feature
X-Golf America's new nationwide fall league is offering a $10,000 prize through a handicapped format that asks a more interesting question than who shoots the lowest score: who played best relative to the golfer they already were?
The Jumper Has a Dashboard Now
Reported Feature
Shoot 360's first New Jersey gym opens in Ocean Township with sensors, screens and memberships that turn the jumper into a dashboard — and youth training into a subscription.
What If the Rescue Event Didn't Feel Like a Rescue Event?
Event Choice Inline Arena · Sewell, New Jersey
At the Pup Cup in Sewell, roller hockey is not interrupted for a cause. The cause is built into the event, putting 12 teams, 10 rescue organizations, adoptable dogs and five hours of competition inside the same social space.
The Fans Get a Monument, Too
Reported Feature
After Indiana's first CFP title, Dr Pepper put a Fan Wall of Fame on Kirkwood Avenue, a branded monument that tries to put supporters inside the championship story.
Last One, Best One
Reported Event TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey
The Jersey Diners closed the regular season with a loss, but the final afternoon at TD Bank Ballpark had the kind of seats, noise and family chaos that made the score feel secondary.
Robot Fighting Is Having a Moment Again
Reported Feature
For anyone who loved the early days of BattleBots and lost track of combat robotics for a while, National Havoc Robot League is a very good reason to look again. NHRL is building the ladder, media reach, builder culture and professional structure that could turn robot fighting from a familiar spectacle into a durable sport.
Professional Table Tennis Is a Thing. Now It’s Much Easier to Watch.
Reported Feature
Major League Table Tennis is putting every match of its fourth season on YouTube and DAZN, while expanding onto national and regional television. For a sport almost everyone has played but relatively few Americans regularly watch, visibility may be the difference between curiosity and fandom.
The Dog Is Part of Gameday Now
Reported Feature
The NFL has named The Farmer’s Dog its first official pet-food partner, putting dogs inside the league’s biggest cultural moments. The sponsorship is commercial, but the assumption underneath it is cultural: the dog is no longer outside the family ritual waiting for everyone to come home.
If the Athlete Is a Robot, Who Are We Really Cheering For?
Reported Feature
CyberHero launched a humanoid robot sports league in Riyadh with plans for an eight-city global circuit. The machines can punch, kick, fall and recover. The harder question is whether spectators will eventually care about them the way we care about athletes.
If Nobody Is Driving, What Exactly Are We Watching?
Reported Feature
At Imola, five identical autonomous racecars made software the competitive difference — and forced a cultural question about what sport looks like when nobody is in the cockpit.
Five Runs, One Championship Belt and a Ballpark Full of Dogs
Reported Event TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey
Somerset beat Hartford 7-2 on a night when WWE star Damian Priest, Bark in the Park and a championship-belt shirt giveaway turned TD Bank Ballpark into a perfect collision of baseball people, dog people and wrestling people.
One More Burst Over Bridgewater
Reported Event TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey
The Somerset Patriots' final fireworks night of 2026 arrives September 12, pairing Irish Heritage Night with the next-to-last home game of the regular season.
The Final Stretch Has a Look
Reported Event TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey
Somerset's final home week of 2026 brings Damian Priest, a WWE giveaway jersey that actually understands the assignment, and one last turn as the Jersey Diners.
A Vow, a Wave, and the Runner on Second
Reported Event TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey
A regular Saturday at TD Bank Ballpark moved from renewed promises to Yankees rehab assignments, four Somerset home runs and the unforgiving arithmetic of extra innings
The Ballpark Remembers
Reported Event TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey
Sopranos Night, a twenty-minute rain delay, and the long afterlife of the free shirt