Akana lands on his feet at Kahuku

• By Dave Reardon
• Jan. 8, 2017

Brandyn Akana, the former University of Hawaii assistant basketball coach, is in the midst of a great comeback. Read more

Bowl season was a mix of good, bad and ugly

• By Dave Reardon
• Jan. 6, 2017

The first reaction was it must be fake news. Read more

Last season brought some cheer to UH

• By Dave Reardon
• Jan. 4, 2017

The University of Hawaii athletic department made history in 2016, the good kind. Read more

Purchase gives UH’s most loyal fans hope

• By Dave Reardon
• Dec. 26, 2016

For Jack Purchase, it was the day after the big holiday and he exchanged his shooting slump for a hot hand from 3-point land. Read more

Lempa’s defense fought back to make the difference for UH

• By Dave Reardon
• Dec. 25, 2016

It was one of those thousand-yard college football games, both teams running up and down the field making big plays, both teams crossing the goal line seemingly at will. Read more

Hawaii Bowl brought out the best in UH’s Rivers

• By Dave Reardon
• Dec. 23, 2016

The numbers are still hard to believe a decade later. Jason Rivers caught 42 passes for 704 yards and six touchdowns in four games. Read more

Bowl games should be cherished, not dismissed

• By Dave Reardon
• Dec. 21, 2016

At first I thought maybe it was a generational thing, this distaste I have for Leonard Fournette, Christian McCaffrey and now Shock Linwood bailing out of their college football bowl games. Read more

The NCAA investigation that will never end

• By Dave Reardon
• Dec. 19, 2016

The NCAA’s sense of timing is fine when being prompt suits its agenda. Read more

Minnesota coach has no reason to be proud

• By Dave Reardon
• Dec. 18, 2016

University of Minnesota football coach Tracy Claeys said he wasn’t involved in suspending 10 of his players from the upcoming Holiday Bowl. Read more

Some runners trade integrity for a medal and a shirt

• By Dave Reardon
• Dec. 16, 2016

When I saw the website reporting people cheating at the Honolulu Marathon I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. So I did a little bit of both. Read more

For Shoji, his next victory will be his most important one

• By Dave Reardon
• Dec. 13, 2016

As Monday afternoon wore on the bad news we’d anticipated never broke. This was the day some of us thought Dave Shoji would announce his retirement. Read more

Scherf carries American hopes and does it her own unique way

• By Dave Reardon
• Dec. 12, 2016

An hour into the race the general consensus among the experts was she would end up broken down on the side of Kalanianaole Highway. Read more

Local authors show all sides of Hawaii in new books

• By Dave Reardon
• Dec. 11, 2016

Joe Onosai is a pastor who went to University High and starred in football for Pac-Five and the University of Hawaii. Later, among many other occupations, he performed incredible feats in the televised World’s Strongest Man competition. Read more

Victorino waits for the phone to ring

• By Dave Reardon
• Dec. 10, 2016

Shane Victorino is not what you’d call the retiring type. Read more

UH will get a long break, and it will need one

• By Dave Reardon
• Dec. 8, 2016

No one likes to go on a long break after a loss. Read more

Hawaii Bowl offers UH postseason redemption

• By Dave Reardon
• Dec. 5, 2016

The first thing Nick Rolovich scheduled for this week was a wake-up call for his University of Hawaii football team. Read more

June Jones hopes Cal Lee keeps coaching at Saint Louis

• By Dave Reardon
• Dec. 4, 2016

June Jones will likely coach football at Saint Louis School in the coming years. Read more

Playoff expansion makes too much sense

• By Dave Reardon
• Dec. 2, 2016

The next good reason I hear for not expanding the College Football Playoff tournament to eight teams will be the first. Read more