Dave Reardon: Baseball’s timelessness can help or hurt
If you’re a baseball fan, you might know that W.P. Kinsella wrote “Shoeless Joe,” on which the Academy Award-nominated movie “Field of Dreams” was based. Read more
Dave Reardon
Dave Reardon writes about mostly sports for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. He was born in Honolulu and attended Pearl City High School, Northwestern University and the University of Hawaii.
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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.
Latest Stories by Dave Reardon
Dave Reardon: UH teams flexing their strength in home games
About two weeks ago, on Feb. 9, a crowd worthy of the word crowd nearly filled the Stan Sheriff Center. Read more
Dave Reardon: Freshman Sho-stoppers a good sign for ’Bows
The Rainbows dominated the Rebels, 9-1, with a great start on the mound from another true freshman, Isaiah Magdaleno, from North Hills, Calif. Read more
Dave Reardon: Great QBs need to be ‘plus-1s,’ Miano says
Rich Miano’s football career was nearly all on the defensive side of the ball. Read more
Dave Reardon: Bet on it, Super Bowl winner will be DoorDash
After exhausting minutes of arduous research, thoroughly exploring every angle, I’ve made my pick for Super Bowl winner. Read more
Dave Reardon: Conspiracy theorists having field day with Super Bowl
Blame pro wrestling. Blame so-called reality TV. Blame the internet. Or, you can go back 35 years and “Blame It On The Rain.” Read more
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Dave Reardon: Time to use gambling to benefit Hawaii
If we’re so pious as a state, why do Hawaii people crowd onto dilapidated airplanes that weekly herd thousands to Las Vegas and then back after a few days, most with empty pockets? Read more
Dave Reardon: NFL invites Lunas leaders to Super Bowl in Las Vegas
The Lahainaluna High School football team finished just a bit short of playing for a state championship. Read more
Dave Reardon: Leahey’s love for Lions on the verge of paying off
Like many people in Hawaii, Jim Leahey was a lifelong fan of the San Francisco 49ers, who play the Detroit Lions today for the NFC championship and a spot in the Super Bowl. Read more
Billboards may be allowed in Aloha Stadium district
Proposed legislation to allow billboards and other large messaging signs in the New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District passed first reading in the state Senate on Wednesday. Read more
Dave Reardon: San Jose State building a case as UH’s new football rival
It wasn’t mutual, but until a year or two after the turn of the millennium the University of Hawaii’s rival in football was clear. Read more
Dave Reardon: Carissa Moore might be Hawaii’s best female athlete ever
There’s something odd about Carissa Moore’s World Surf League championships besides the fact that they came in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2019, and 2021. Read more
Grayson Murray birdies in three-way playoff to win Sony Open
Grayson Murray always knew he had the talent to win on the PGA Tour. Read more
Grayson Murray claims Sony Open in Hawaii title in a playoff
Grayson Murray won the Sony Open in Hawaii today, sinking a 38-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to outlast Byeong Hun An and Keegan Bradley. Read more
Bradley, Murray go down to the wire tied for Sony Open lead
Keegan Bradley and Grayson Murray are tied for the lead at 14 under, and seven other players are within three shots of the lead, including Sam Stevens who is alone at 13 under, and who will join them in the final group that tees off at 9:50 this morning. Read more
Bradley and Murray lead Sony Open entering final round
Keegan Bradley and Grayson Murray enter the final round of the PGA’s Sony Open at Hawaii on Sunday tied for the lead at 14 under par. Read more
Eckroat, Yuan, An tied for first after 36 holes at Sony Open
None of the three leaders has won a PGA Tour event. Read more
3 tied atop packed Sony Open leaderboard
A pack of 10 players, including Stewart Cink, Chris Kirk and first-round leader Cam Davis, is one shot off the pace at Waialae Country Club. Read more
Blustery Sony conditions not an issue for Davis
A little wind didn’t bother Cam Davis, who made four birdies in a row on the back nine Thursday afternoon to grab the lead after the first day of play at the Sony Open in Hawaii. Read more
Davis leads as darkness halts Sony Open first round
Cam Davis shot 8-under-par 62 in windy conditions at Waialae Country Club this afternoon to take a two-shot lead as darkness suspended the first round of the Sony Open in Hawaii. Read more
Kim relishes his debut at the Sony Open
It took Chan Kim a decade longer than he had hoped, but today he is exactly where he dreamed golf would take him someday. The fact that it is just a couple of miles from where he grew up is a bonus. Read more
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