Johnston High School made a noteworthy hire official this week when it signed former Cranston East girls basketball coach Jhamal Diggs as its new girls hoops coach for next season. Diggs became … more

A year after being named the Cranston Herald’s Girls Coach of the Year, Jhamal Diggs has been named the Herald’s Boys Coach of the Year as the coach of the East volleyball team. The … more

After three seasons at the helm, Cranston East girls basketball coach Jhamal Diggs will be moving on to the next chapter of his career, accepting the position of assistant coach at Rhode Island … more

By ALEX SPONSELLER The Cranston East sports department announced on Monday that current girls basketball coach Jhamal Diggs would be taking over the vacant boys volleyball coach position for this upcoming spring season. Longtime boys and girls volleyball more

At just 28 years old, Jhamal Diggs was one of the state's youngest coaches heading into the 2020-21 winter basketball season last year and was only in his second campaign as the East girls' head coach. After a disappointing season the year before, more

By ALEX SPONSELLER The Cranston East girls basketball team enjoyed one of the biggest turnarounds in the state last winter season, going from the bottom of the standings to the quarterfinals in the playoffs thanks to a late-season surge in which it won more