You’ve heard about the proverbial “slow boat to China” or “jumping from a sinking ship.” Local sportscaster Brent Curry can tell you those things really happen. His recent life-threatening misadventure is proof. The 30-year-old Curry, who does play-by-play for Hawaii Pacific University basketball, softball and volleyball on television and radio, survived a sinking sailboat in [...]
Wahine basketball player Courtney Gaddis, a 21-year-old junior, has finally earned her full-ride scholarship. Now, she could help save a life. Gaddis has been identified as a perfect match for a young cancer patient and will donate her bone marrow in an attempt to bolster the health of the 4-year-old patient. “I signed up to [...]
If you’re like most local sports fans, you had to love the recently televised Little League World Series games featuring the new U.S. champions from Waipio. For the third time in the last six years, the Hawaii Little Leaguers shined on the baseball field with their outstanding skills and thrill-a-minute play. Seventy-two-year-old Cliff Yaguchi from [...]
With only a week until the 2010 season opener, it’s time to think optimistically about the upcoming University of Hawaii football season. For the past few years, I’ve been pretty close to picking the Warriors’ final record – accurately seeing a 12-0 regular season in 2007, picking an 8-5 season when UH eventually went 7-6 [...]
At a recent team meeting of UH offensive personnel, one of the Warrior players asked Mouse Davis, the 77-year-old UH assistant coach, what was the most points his team had ever scored in a game. The reply was brief, but astounding: “105,” Mouse said. Late in the 1980 football season, Mouse’s Portland State Vikings shellacked [...]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve received more and more comments about the recent maneuverings in college conferences – some questions quite facetious and some very serious. “How will all this movement among the conferences affect Hawaii?” “How will it affect schools outside the so-called super-conferences?” “Will this eventually lead to a Division I football [...]
For Bob Coolen, it’s the best of times. Fresh off his 11,000-plus mile incredible journey with his University of Hawaii Wahine softball team, Coach Coolen reflected on the achievements of their tremendous run to greatness. “The incredible part was how resilient the team was from weekend to the weekend,” he tells me from his office [...]
I’m sitting in the airport as I write this, flying off to another conference meeting and then on to an NCAA tournament. Across the terminal from where I’m waiting at my gate, another Hawaii athletic team is patiently awaiting its signal to begin the boarding process. There are three words that are a way of [...]
