Hoops 4 Hope, which aids at-risk children in Zimbabwe and South Africa, and the LuMind Foundation, which improves the lives of those with Down syndrome, benefited from hotly contested basketball tournaments at Sportime in Amagansett.

This weekend will be an active one, with the Artists and Writers Softball Game at Herrick Park, the Johnny Mac Tennis Project pro-am at Sportime, and Ellen’s Run in Southampton.

Susie DiSunno, the Kendall Madison Foundation’s most recent scholarship awardee, was welcomed by board members at Alan Patricof’s house in East Hampton Saturday morning for an informal gathering to continue the mentoring mission.

Before you know it, it’ll be the middle of October, when the season for blackfish begins. So I canceled my regular morning of tennis to take an early drive to Montauk to fish for fluke and sea bass aboard the Simple Life.