Phillip Parker was 14 a year ago when he hung himself in the bathroom of his foster parents’ home. After years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his classmates, the high-schooler killed himself rather than face the continued torment that comes with being an openly gay male. His final cry for help [...]
Hawaii boasts a billion-dollar golf industry that includes 90 courses, millions of local and visiting participants and junior programs equal to more populous and well-heeled areas. What it doesn’t have is an appreciation of its history or a unifying theme around which the various courses and tournaments can rally. The Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame [...]
It was more than a bit strange, the speculation whether Chris Webber would attend the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final. He did, but in an atypical way. If not for CBS cameras staking out the parking structure, the viewing public may never have known for sure. Webber was there, with his wife, Erika, and wearing a [...]
Whether Manti Te’o was the innocent yet naive victim of an elaborate hoax or had purposely taken advantage of the situation for his own benefit is now irrelevant. Chapter two in the life of Hawaii’s most-decorated collegiate athlete is set to begin, and regardless of impressions, has done nothing to warrant any further embarrassment. And [...]
You’ve got to credit Deadspin.com’s headline writers for their accuracy: Lance Armstrong is a huge ass****. That was the online publication’s assessment of the issue facing the seven-time Tour de France winner. The problem, according to Deadspin, was not the drugs or the lying about his chemical-induced victories, but that Armstrong is just an evil, [...]
Granted, they haven’t played anyone of note beyond a now ranked Illinois, but there is something about this year’s Rainbow Warriors basketball team. Clearly, much of the optimism for Gib Arnold’s third season comes from the move to a mediocre basketball conference. A year ago, Big West teams went a combined 133-148. This year UH [...]
To say everything is just peachy at Cal State-Fullerton would be erroneous. Its men’s basketball coach resigned in June, a year after several players threatened to quit the program. In July, athletic director Brian Quinn was reassigned to the school’s development office, and its softball coach filed a sexual discrimination lawsuit against the school. No, [...]
In 2006, Al Gore’s narrated documentary An Inconvenient Truth offered a shocking vision of the future because of global warming and other environmental concerns. An inconvenient truth has emerged for the UH football team that could devastate the athletic department’s future. * Inconvenient Truth No. 1: Norm Chow isn’t going anywhere. That’s good news for [...]
In glacial terms I’m not that old. Yes, the hair is gray and the belly has enough pot in it to get a courtesy call from Woody Harrelson asking if he can bury a few extra inches at his next NORML rally. But other than that, I figure to have a few years left to [...]
Since 1964, The Word of Life Mural, better known as Touchdown Jesus, has watched over the South Bend campus of Notre Dame University and the world’s third-greatest symbol of Catholicism, Notre Dame Stadium. In the mosaic’s shadow have paraded countless false idols from the Four Horseman to Lou Holtz, but after decades of glory, God [...]
