For the first time in history, the Island Cup will be played at Fenway Park, with the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football team heading to Boston this year to take on the Nantucket Whalers in the longstanding tradition.

During the great age of yachting, in the early part of the 20th century, the premier ocean race, where boats and their crews were tested on a stage that was covered on front pages of newspapers all over the country, was the Newport to Bermuda Race.

Baseball is part of sports journalist Melissa Ludtke’s DNA, starting from the letter her grandfather wrote her mother when Ms. Ludtke was born.

Noelle Lambert, who lost her leg in a moped crash on the Vineyard in 2016, will head to the Paris Paralympics next month to compete in the 100-meter dash and long jump.

Charlie Ortmans, 19, won the Chilmark Road Race Saturday for the third year in a row with a time of 15:58. Lilly Tuck was the first female finisher.

The 2024 summer season ended for the Sharks Saturday with an 18-12 loss to the Vermont Mountaineers in the first round of the playoffs.