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.
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
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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
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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
Plenty of coaches use a backup quarterback for a change of pace in certain situations. So Dalen Morris’ role on the University of Hawaii football team is nothing unique. Read more
This time, the Warriors were in it until the last 103 seconds, as the host Commodores ran out the clock and escaped, 35-28. Read more
The road is not usually kind to the University of Hawaii football team. Read more
In just a few days you can hit pause on conference realignment, NIL, and the portal. Transfer your eyes to some actual college football games. Read more
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Did you know Mouse Davis was at one time head coach of the University of Hawaii football team? Read more
A long-deserving Farrington guy got into the Pro Football Hall of Fame last week. Read more
Brown is smart, and knows that the best move is often the one you don’t make. So, when UH’s new coach Timmy Chang called in December 2021, Brown considered his options. Read more
Breaking pitches aren’t breaking news in youth baseball. But it wasn’t that long ago when children throwing curveballs was like a pretend secret, sitting there in plain sight. Everybody knew it was happening but only a few acknowledged it publicly. Read more
As he stood naked outside of his school’s gym, the young football player knew a line had been crossed. Read more
If the best running backs held something called a Zoom meeting in the late 1980s, you might think it was a match race featuring Bo Jackson. Read more
He likes the word fabulous so much that if you drank a shot every time he said it, you’d be plastered halfway through his sports talk radio show. Read more
Michelle Wie West was unlike any other golfer, ever. She was unlike any other athlete, period. Read more
