Preview section for the Rainbow Warriors’ 2014 football season.
Every morning during football season, Norm Chow awakens at 3:30. There is no alarm clock, no early-rising rooster. "It's just a habit," Chow said. Chow has time to shower, gather his thoughts, and prepare for the 6:30 a.m. quarterbacks meeting. Read more
Challenging starts have been a constant in Norm Chow's tenure as Hawaii's head coach. For the third straight year, the Rainbow Warriors will open the season against a nationally ranked opponent when they face Washington at Aloha Stadium. Read more
The National Football League is not as much about making the cut as surviving it. Each year, the Washington Redskins brought in linebackers who were faster and stronger than Kurt Gouveia. Read more
University of Hawaii football receiver Marcus Kemp is the sort who takes his work home. Kemp clutches a football in his house, while he's watching television, and when he cooks. Read more
Ben Clarke is the University of Hawaii football's best offensive lineman. Heck, in 2012, he was named the Rainbow Warriors' best player on offense. Read more
An average-sized textbook probably weighs about 2 pounds, or 0.7 percent of the weight of an NCAA football offensive lineman. Now hold the book over your head, as if making the "A" sign in the "YMCA" dance -- for an hour, starting at 5 in the morning. Read more
Some coaches shy away from allowing full-time starters to risk injury playing on special teams. Hawaii special teams coach Chris Demarest isn't one of them. Read more
Three years ago, Scott Harding couldn't even put on football pads correctly. Now, he might be Hawaii's most dependable player. Following the path of former Hawaii punter Alex Dunnachie, Harding gave up his career playing Australian football to try his hand with the American version. Read more
As 16 1/2-point underdog, the University of Hawaii football team faces a daunting challenge in Saturday's opener against 25th-ranked Washington. Before the start of Wednesday's practice, former UH safety Kent Kafentzis stood in the Rainbow Warriors' huddle, a living and defiant testament to battling long odds. Read more
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Things are always looking up for Tevita Lataimua. Rather, he's always looking up. Read more
Nearly six years and some 361 carries after his debut in Hawaii, Joey Iosefa remembers fondly his first opportunity to dig his cleats into Aloha Stadium's artifical turf. Iosefa had been selected to play in the Hawaii/Polynesia-Mainland Bowl in December 2008. Read more
The shift to a 3-4 base defense under new defensive coordinator Kevin Clune (from a 4-3) has shifted greater responsibility to the linebackers, of which there are now four on most plays. Read more
Getting Joey Iosefa back on the field boosted Hawaii's offensive production late last season. Read more
The fear gripped Kennedy Tulimasealii. So much hype, so much hope surrounded the prospect from Waianae High when he joined the Hawaii football team in 2013. In his mind, how could he live up to the expectation of being Norm Chow's biggest defensive recruit? Read more
Ikaika Woolsey wears reminders of both his upbringing and heritage when he suits up in the locker room. Read more
It wasn't too long ago that Jordan Wynn viewed the chaos after the snap through a face mask. Read more
Defensive line coach Lewis Powell begins going over his starters up front, one by one. Read more
