Rick Sassone, Editor/Publisher of Rocket Sports & Entertainment - Rick has always been a passionate sports fan, writer and photographer and will combine this passion along with his sales, marketing and branding experience to grow Rocket Sports & Entertainment Network. Rick is the host of the Rocket Sports & Entertainment Show which is, by the way, expanding to full time in the fall of 2015. Rick is the play by play voice of Saint Leo University Basketball and Tarpon springs Spongers football.

Who do you like in the Final Four?

  Friday and Saturday on the show I will share who I am going with…   But til then here’s a hint  

Jays Jump – Beat Stros 7-4

  Kissimmee, Fla. — As spring winds down to it’s last week the more confident fans  can feel as their team does well and readies for the real thing.   Tonight was one of those feel good nights for the Toronto Blue Jays as they pounded out 12 hits, three of them homers in the first two […]

Gracias Dios! Montoya Wins! (Sorry Will)

    St. Petersburg, Fla. —  On lap 80,  I jokingly said to photographer Rodney Meyering, if Will Power wins I don’t even want victory lane podium photos.  He said (while laughing), “Yes, you can just run last year’s.”   At that point Power had led 61 of the 80 laps after starting number one pole […]

USF’s Dream is Schimmel-ed

Louisville’s Jude Schimmel takes over in the final three minutes to break the hearts of the USF Bulls

Too Much Time on His Hands

As host, editor, publisher, among other things, here at Rocket Sports & Entertainment,  I felt it was a great time to share with you what I discovered today about Eddie Michels, or as on twitter #EddieMichelsPhoto. Eddie Michels is going on his fifth season of reporting for Rocket Sports & Entertainment.  Everyone at our wonderful network […]

Joey Bats Saves the Day

  Dunedin, Fla.– A slow RA Dickey start, a crushing, season ending injury to Marcus Stroman and a 5-3 loss to the Minnesota Twins, could have anything gone right today? YES! Enter Jose Bautista and the Wood family from Thornton, Ontario.   The Wood family was down for their first spring training game in Dunedin. […]

Is Philly’s $125 Million Man Moved In?

  Belleair Beach, Fla. – Here at Rocket Sports & Entertainment Network we have been following the progress of Ryan Howard’s house through the keen lens of the esteemed Eddie Michels.  It appears the home (small building) is finished just in time for spring training 2015, and we can call it “The House that the 2008 […]

Players, Watch your Wallets

  Yesterday during the Rocket Report we talked about NHL hockey player Jack Johnson and his financial woes.  Johnson whom, by the end of the 2014-15 season will have made $23 million in his NHL career is bankrupt.  Johnson, filing for bankruptcy and parting with his financial caretakers who swindled away the money on their own […]

Why You Should Wear a Boxberger or Kiermaier Jersey

Back on June 11th Brad Boxberger threw the pitch in what I thought at the time may have changed the season for a turn in the right direction for the Tampa Bay Rays.  Twenty – two days later, I know it did. Brad would be the first to tell you it was not the greatest pitch, but […]

Jayna Thompson excels with Volleyball Passion

At 15 years old Jayna Thompson has  been playing volleyball for five years but her on court presence, maturity and determination gives the appearance that she has been on the court since being a toddler.   Jayna has just completed her freshman year at Bishop Fenwick High School  in Franklin, Ohio and has already racked up […]