When Kaniela Aiona says he and his family “are counting the days,” until they can finally settle on his native Hawaii island, you get the feeling it is more than just a figure of speech. Read more
Not even the prospect of 13 more days locked down in a hotel room quarantine could dim Daryna Bachkarova’s enthusiasm Friday, the first morning she awoke in Honolulu as if still in a dream. Read more
Maybe it is an outlook honed by having made 192 appearances over the last three-plus years coming in from the bullpen, stepping into situations where the game is usually on the line in the late innings. Read more
The swift, knee-jerk, Thursday-morning quarterback reaction today is to say that Cole McDonald should have just stayed put at the University of Hawaii. Read more
If there were questions about how the new, glossy four-year, $84 million contract might impact DeForest Buckner, the answers were quick and powerful in coming once he got into the Indianapolis Colts’ COVID-19 delayed training camp. Read more
When the Pac-12 Conference pulled the plug on sports for fall 2020 on Tuesday, the move spoke to a lot more than just football. Read more
It didn’t take long for the financial impact of the COVID-19 induced cancellation of fall sports to claim its first coaching victim at the University of Hawaii. Read more
Last Wednesday, the Mountain West Conference trumpeted the rollout of its “adjusted” football schedule as providing “a path forward” for the 2020 season. Read more
Talk about your crazy seasons, who knew that in 2020 the Mid-American Conference would stand as the conscience of college football and a beacon of enlightened reason amid the scourge of COVID-19? Read more
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Last month Coco Ho returned to the Waco Wavepool, the scene of the biggest injury of her surfing career to attempt the air reverse maneuver that resulted in a torn medial collateral ligament in her left knee a year ago. Read more
Rainbow Wahine volleyball, historically the biggest winner among the University of Hawaii’s 21 athletic teams, could turn out to be the biggest loser in the whole 2020 COVID-19 sports shuffle. Read more
In the space of less than 24 hours one university, Connecticut, canceled its football season and 12 others in the Mountain West Conference, including Hawaii, Wednesday pledged to press on in an attempt to preserve theirs. Read more
By the time the University of Hawaii football team hits the field for the opening of camp Friday it should have an idea of what kind of a schedule it will be playing this fall. Read more
No sooner had the communique from #WeAreUnited landed in inboxes over the weekend than Washington State football coach Nick Rolovich became a rallying point for the fledgling college athletes’ rights organization. Read more
Twenty years ago Mark Rolfing remembers interviewing junior golfer Michelle Wie, who was anything but awed in front of the cameras, on his “Golf Hawaii” TV show. Read more
When coach Laura Beeman talks to her University of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine basketball team about the perils of COVID-19 these days, she isn’t reciting from some generic school or government hand out. Read more
When the Big West Conference announced on Wednesday that it was postponing fall sports, setting up the first autumn without University of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine volleyball in 47 years, the school was quick to note what wasn’t affected in the season. Read more
When Miami produced one positive COVID-19 test on Friday and three more on Saturday and it was up in the air whether it would play Sunday’s baseball game against the Phillies, who did the Marlins turn to for a decision? Read more
Now that the PacWest Conference is postponing its fall sports competition until after Jan. 1, 2021, can its intercollegiate neighbor, the Big West Conference, be far behind in doing the same? Read more
At this point in the COVID-19 cursed college sports year, you can hardly blame the athletes if they are feeling a little like canaries in a coal mine. Read more
Well, it was an interesting early University of Hawaii 2020 football schedule while it lasted. Read more
