Editing Rhode Island (section)

====Collegiate and amateur sports====
[[File:Meade_Stadium.jpg|thumb|University of Rhode Island's [[Meade Stadium]] in [[Kingston, Rhode Island|Kingston]]]]
There are four [[NCAA]] Division I schools in Rhode Island. All four schools compete in different conferences. The [[Brown University|Brown University Bears]] compete in the [[Ivy League]], the [[Bryant Bulldogs|Bryant University Bulldogs]] compete in the [[America East Conference]], the [[Providence Friars|Providence College Friars]] compete in the [[Big East Conference]], and the [[Rhode Island Rams|University of Rhode Island Rams]] compete in the [[Atlantic 10 Conference]]. Three of the schools' football teams compete in the [[NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision|Football Championship Subdivision]], the second-highest level of [[college football]] in the United States. Brown plays FCS football in the [[Ivy League]], Bryant plays FCS football in the [[Big South Conference]] before that league merges its football operations with those of the [[Ohio Valley Conference]] in 2023, and Rhode Island plays FCS football in CAA Football, the technically separate football league of the [[Colonial Athletic Association]]. All four Division I schools in the state compete in an intrastate all-sports competition known as the [[Ocean State Cup]], with Bryant winning the most recent cup in 2011–12 academic year.

From 1930 to 1983, [[America's Cup]] races were sailed off Newport, and the extreme-sport [[X Games]] and [[Gravity Games]] were founded and hosted in the state's capital city.
[[File:ITHF_Grounds_and_Newport_Casino_building.jpg|thumb|The [[International Tennis Hall of Fame]] in Newport]]
The [[International Tennis Hall of Fame]] is in Newport at the Newport Casino, site of the first U.S. National Championships in 1881. The Hall of Fame and Museum were established in 1954 by [[Jimmy Van Alen]] as "a shrine to the ideals of the game".<ref>{{Cite web |title=James Henry Van Alen II – Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame |url=http://riheritagehalloffame.com/james-van-alen/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bala |first=Gary |date=2010-02-16 |title=A Brief History of Tennis* - |url=https://www.essentialtennis.com/a-brief-history-of-tennis/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=Essential Tennis |language=en-US}}</ref>

Rhode Island is also home to the headquarters of the governing body for youth rugby league in the United States, the American Youth Rugby League Association or AYRLA. The AYRLA has started the first-ever rugby league youth competition in Providence Middle Schools, a program at the RI Training School, in addition to starting the first high school competition in the US in Providence Public High School.<ref name="USARL.com">{{cite web |url= http://www.usarl.com/2013/11/high-school-rugby-league-kicksoff-in-the-usa/ |title= High School Rugby League Kicks Off in USA |date= November 14, 2013 |website= USARL.com |access-date= November 14, 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131118073219/http://www.usarl.com/2013/11/high-school-rugby-league-kicksoff-in-the-usa/ |archive-date= November 18, 2013}}</ref>