Only in the spend-thrift environment of major college football could $760,000, a fortune by most standards (and the highest wage of any state employee in Hawaii in 2020), be considered a well below-average salary.
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UH’s contract calls for the school to make a minimum of seven games available for PPV in order to receive the full $2,915,000 rights fee. A shortfall could deduct $400,000, but Spectrum declined comment.
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When fans packed the Stan Sheriff Center last year for the Big West Conference men’s volleyball championship, the league and participating teams urged the University of Hawaii to tender bids to host an NCAA championship.
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Dilfer will head Team Makai and another former Super Bowl winner, Doug Williams, will head Team Mauka, in the annual high school all-star game, it was announced today.
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Proclaiming, “Marathoners don’t give up,” Honolulu Marathon President Jim Barahal said the Dec. 13 event may wait until late November before determining whether to cancel what would be its 48th annual competition.
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Here’s what it might look like if there were an actual Sports Charter ballot.
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Over the course of the past four decades, Chaminade, Hawaii Pacific and University of Hawaii at Hilo have become the best of basketball rivals.
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A couple of the state’s enduring holiday season sports fixtures have already moved on and, now, we await the growing possibility of the Diamond Head Classic shortly joining them.
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For more than 20 years now University of Hawaii softball coach Bob Coolen has steadfastly held to the same fervent wish.
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Imagine Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson stepping to the podium on Zoom this week.
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His retirement this week from the Pittsburgh Pirates, where he spent a decade as a senior adviser on player development, marks the apparent end of a remarkable saga.
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They were born in the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children 13 minutes apart and for most of their 18 years the Barrientes twins, Chavez and Angel, have stayed in stride.
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For his first game as the University of Hawaii head football coach, Todd Graham will have an experience 13 of his predecessors could only have wished for.
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The Sony Open in Hawaii will have a different look for its “re-imagined” 2021 COVID-19 era event, including a bubble concept for players and essential personnel, officials said.
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A week ago today the University of Hawaii joined the Mountain West Conference in exulting that football was back, scheduled to not only resume with an eight-game season but aggressively kick off with a quick, Oct. 24 turnaround slate of games.
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Hawaii’s record of fewer COVID-19 cases than many areas of California in the Big West footprint, might not be enough for some league foes to agree to play here in the midst of the pandemic.
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Now that the Mountain West Conference has deigned to bring back football (schedules still under construction), it is the Big West Conference and women’s volleyball that is on the clock.
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If you are the Broncos, this is the season you couldn’t let get away.
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Commissioner Craig Thompson said he was not immediately able to put a price on expenditures but the money would come from the conference’s reserve fund.
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The projected Sept. 2, 2023, opening of the New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District is in danger of being pushed back, officials suggested Thursday, a move which could add $20 million or more to the price tag.
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IT took 45 days for the Mountain West Conference to resuscitate its 2020 football season and that might turn out to be the easiest part of this whole enterprise.
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