Hopefully, by the time you’re thumbing through this edition, you haven’t been hunkered and huddled for days in your hale. If you’re out enjoying the sunshine, I envy you, since I’m currently stuck in this seemingly nonstop rainstorm that has decided to take up residence on our beautiful island. Since much more of Kaua’i is [...]
“Spring. Rejuvenation. Rebirth. Everything’s blooming. All that (stuff).” Those immortal words from Seinfeld‘s George Costanza (made a little bit more family friendly) echo in my head as winter annually reaches its conclusion, although I usually add one more descriptive term: Baseball. Yes, major league teams are currently reconvening for spring training, and KIF baseball returns [...]
When “Linsanity” hit the sports world in early February, perhaps no other group of sports fans smiled broader than the people of Hawaii. From basketball gyms to Facebook, local fans are enthusiastically expressing their pride in Jeremy Lin, the overnight sensation of the New York Knicks who grew up in California, but whose family ties [...]
It’s been impossible to even casually follow the sports landscape the past few weeks without being overrun with Linsanity. Jeremy Lin, the new starting point guard for the New York Knicks who went unrecruited out of high school, undrafted after attending Harvard and unnoticed for two other NBA teams, took over the news cycle after [...]
Pop quiz: What caused the big, red, swollen bump on my right thigh pictured here? A) spider bite B) pimple C) bee sting D) nobody knows Answer: D We all have our good weeks and then we have our bad weeks. Two weeks ago my best friend got married awesome! Then, my gung gung passed [...]
After all we’ve witnessed with conference realignment and the money grab that drove the changes, it should come as no surprise that a number of voices are now pushing an overhaul of the men’s NCAA basketball tournament. Central to their cause is the elimination of automatic bids for conference champions. “Let’s get rid of Robert [...]
The end of February means the end of high school sports winter action. Following some always unpredictable and intense KIF regular seasons, a number of our island’s best young athletes took their talents to other beaches and showed well at the Hawaii High School Athletic Association state championships. * The Kaua’i High Raider Wahine entered [...]
Safe and Drug Free School and Olomana School present the 10th annual Hawaii High School Bench Press Contest and the Mr. and Miss High School Body Building Championships March 9 at the Ward Warehouse stage. “Our goal is to give kids an opportunity to showcase what they can do,” says event creator Daniel Suzuki, teacher [...]
It’s as if the waves sometimes feel the energy or the significance of the moment. Announcers almost always remind us late in heats that “anything can still happen,” but there is usually a hint of resignation in their voices. Yet the “it ain’t over till it’s over” mantra was proven true once again Feb. 1 [...]
There were a few very late nights that bled into early mornings as I tuned in for the semifinals and finals of the Australian Open tennis championships last week, but the lack of adequate rest was well worth witnessing the excitement and historic action that took place Down Under. A pair of epic semifinal matches [...]
