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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
If you are the Broncos, this is the season you couldn’t let get away. Read more
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. Read more
Here’s hoping that it will be an abundance of science, safety and common sense that carries the day in any MWC decision. Not the thundering hooves of a peer-pressure stampede. Read more
Six months after the NCAA brought basketball to a sudden, screeching halt, Wednesday it gave its 350 Division I schools the green light to begin play again on Nov. 25. Read more
The Aztecs ceremonially broke ground last month on their planned 35,00-seat, $310 million stadium that will be adjacent to their most recent home, the city-owned 70,561-seat San Diego Country Credit Union Stadium. Read more
Coaches have lauded sophomore Dillon Gabriel’s improvements from Year 1 to Year 2 as the quarterback of 14th-ranked Central Florida, but it is the Mililani High graduate’s own tenor of confidence that perhaps said it best Monday. Read more
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The last — and one of the only — times that Maureen “Mo” Flanagan Cole spent more than a couple of months away from either playing or coaching water polo she was desk-bound in an escrow office. Read more
It isn’t often that Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame coaches Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams and Jim Boehim get shut down on the same day. Read more
After surveying for the umpteenth time the charred remains of what was once his home and what was left of the family business after a wildfire tore through Ashland, Ore., on Tuesday, Nkeruwem “Tony” Akpan felt yet another surge of anguish. Read more
As anybody who has followed University of Hawaii sports for a while can tell you, committees have often been the bane of the place. Read more
Laura Beeman is starting her ninth year as the Rainbow Wahine basketball coach at the University of Hawaii, but she begs to differ with the official math. Read more
The University of Hawaii’s bench was where Maj Forsberg’s basketball dream seemed destined to meet its thwarted and logical end. Read more
Last November, almost a year to the day after he suffered a devastating knee injury that would require 11 surgeries, lei-bedecked quarterback McKenzie Milton was cheered as he hobbled in the University of Central Florida’s Senior Night festivities. Read more
The first time that coach John Thompson brought his Georgetown basketball team to Hawaii, Hurricane Iwa struck. Read more
So, this is what the Washington Nationals have started. A year after the Nats broke a 50-year drought and won the franchise’s first World Series, the San Diego Padres are trying to trade in their 51-year absence for one. Read more
The 1961 football season was to have marked a prideful turning point for the University of Hawaii. Read more
After being a student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a small, private engineering-based NAIA school in Terre Haute, Ind., Fujio “Fudge” Matsuda said he had a “naive, very idealistic view of college sports.” Read more
As the NBA was scheduled to tip-off its slate of playoff games Wednesday with the Milwaukee Bucks vs. the Orlando Magic, we were treated to … Read more
