In addition to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and the Honolulu Advertiser at various times since 1981, he worked at the Gainesville Sun in Florida, and his writing has also appeared in national publications including Sports Illustrated and the ESPN College Football Encyclopedia. He has won more than 10 state or national awards for sports column, feature and news reporting while at one time or another covering every sports beat in Hawaii, and has also been honored for nutrition and medical reporting while at Island Scene magazine.
In his free time he teaches sports journalism at UH-Manoa and does volunteer work.
This was homecoming in its truest sense, as the Lunas played at their home field for the first time after the fire, culminating the first week of returning to school. They had been attending classes and practicing in Kihei, more than 20 miles away. Read more
Where did all that senseless hate aimed at Tua Tagovailoa go? Read more
The Warriors looked like they could forget about the pressure of being the state’s team for a few minutes and, instead, enjoy playing a kids’ game. Read more
If a sport is under consideration for inclusion in the Olympics, there’s a good chance that it might be an appropriate one for interscholastic competition. Read more
In Saturday’s biggest college football game, a son of one of Wagner’s brightest Rainbow Warriors stars beat a team coached by a BYU alum — and not just any Cougar, but one who was part of ending Wagner’s tenure at UH. Read more
The last (and only) time the University of Hawaii played a football game on a neighbor island, the Warriors were led to victory by a sophomore quarterback. Read more
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Maybe someday there will be a movie about them. Today, though, it’s back to the grind of practice for the Lahainaluna High School football teams. Read more
Lahainaluna won four state Division II championships in a row, from 2016 through 2019. But, for now, success is measured in being allowed to compete and represent their grief-stricken community. Read more
At the end, the scoreboard was just like how the geniuses said it would be. But there’s no way they could have predicted the route the Rainbow Warriors took to get to their 20-17 victory over New Mexico State. Read more
Spoiler alert: Those of us old enough to remember the no-blood, no-foul intensity of the NBA of the 1980s are spoiled. Read more
A player named Bryan Addison had a chance at a spectacular grab of a Brayden Schager bomb in the second quarter, nearly making an over-the-helmet basket catch Saturday at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore. Read more
One key issue was if the Lahaina Civic Center would be available. Read more
Rick Blangiardi managed a group of about 10 young men long before he ran a city and county of more than a million inhabitants. Read more
Jalen Walthall made a spectacular one-handed catch for a 34-yard touchdown, giving the University of Hawaii football team the lead midway through the third quarter Saturday, the one it would keep in its 31-20 victory over Albany. Read more
The people who know how to do it have continued interest in building a new Aloha Stadium, and state planners say they still expect it to be ready in time for the 2028 football season, with no public cost beyond the $400 million in bonds allocated by the Legislature in 2022. Read more
It can be tricky, figuring out when and how much sports should be considered amid recovery from a tragic community disaster of such extreme magnitude. Read more
Funds will be used to replace sports equipment and supplies lost by around 450 of Lahainaluna’s estimated 500 athletes whose homes were destroyed in the fires, and to support 40 Lahainaluna coaches who also lost their homes Read more
“You studied for this today?” “A little,” my brother, Joe, texted back. “Did you” Read more
It is said college football teams improve the most between their first and second games. If that is true, what are we to make of the University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors? Read more
The University of Hawaii football team has played two games. That is two more than most of the rest of the college football world, which gets going today. Read more
Terance Mann of the Los Angeles Clippers is no stranger to the dangerous whims of nature. Read more
