IN 2014, coach June Jones’ off-the-wall suggestion of a college football season in the spring raised some eyebrows, but not a whole lot more. Read more
With Fordham bowing out of its Sept. 12 game, one shoe has dropped and, now, the University of Hawaii football team waits to see if there might be more in this COVID-19 tossed season. Read more
Ordinarily, what the Ivy League does carries little weight with much of the big-time college football universe, where its group of elite private schools is regarded as something of an anachronistic outlier. Read more
WHEN powerful Boise State takes a hit during the football season there is a measure of enjoyment from the rest of the Mountain West Conference, rare as the occasions might be. Read more
When the Western Athletic Conference split up following a clandestine meeting of a group of breakaway presidents in 1998, a University of Hawaii official was asked what happened to the collegiality? Read more
The good news for the University of Hawaii is that Petra Melounova, the most accomplished tennis player in school history, plans to return. Read more
If you are the University of Hawaii men’s volleyball team or, indeed, many of the nationally ranked teams that play men’s volleyball on the Division I level, be concerned. Be very concerned. Read more
Bill Villa will retire as Chaminade University’s athletic director after Tuesday, but nobody there expects him to stray too far away in coming basketball seasons. Read more
In the mid-1980s spectators at Aloha Stadium and television viewers across the nation tuned into a curious sight at the annual Christmas Jeep Eagle Aloha Bowl. Read more
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Several years ago then-Fordham University football coach Joe Moorhead inaugurated what has become a popular summer tradition in the school’s athletic department, Aloha Friday. Read more
Decades after his punches had once stopped opponents in the ring, Thomas Suyeo Shimabuku found another way to stun people who thought they knew their University of Hawaii sports. Read more
For a 17-year old in tiny Snellville, Ga., (population 14,900) in 1988, Hawaii seemed like the other side of the world. After the trip it took to get to Manoa on his University of Hawaii football recruiting visit, Jason Elam seemed pretty sure it was. Read more
Cheerleading is not an official NCAA sport, but it sure seemed like one Thursday. Read more
The bulk of defensive tackle DeForest Buckner’s new Indianapolis Colts teammates have only glimpsed him these last couple of months from their computer screens during Zoom sessions. Read more
This time last year San Diego Padres closer Kirby Yates was in the midst of one of the most successful Major League Baseball seasons ever experienced by a Hawaii-born-and-bred pitcher. Read more
In the space of those 12 months, Yamamoto’s world has spun faster even than his 94 mph fastball. Read more
At a point on the college athletics calendar when nothing was thought to be happening, what just might turn out to be the most momentous shift in years shows signs of taking place. Read more
If Shane Victorino was coming out of St. Anthony High this year, you wonder if he would have had an opportunity to wear a major league uniform, much less earn four gold gloves and appear in two All-Star games. Read more
For a moment coming into this week it looked like things might actually line up well for Major League Baseball, in spite of itself. Read more
This coming season the University of Hawaii men’s basketball team will be introduced to a new concept: games against a conference opponent that aren’t conference games. Wrap your mind around that for a moment. Read more
There is both room and a need for athletes to take stands beyond the free throw and goal lines where we are used to seeing them. We often put them on pedestals. Sometimes we need them on soap boxes, too. Read more
