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Ferd Lewis: This Ferd bids aloha after career of 50 years
When a CBS TV executive in New York phoned the sports department of the Honolulu Advertiser in the 1970s, he told a clerk, “I’m returning Ferd’s call.” Read more
When a CBS TV executive in New York phoned the sports department of the Honolulu Advertiser in the 1970s, he told a clerk, “I’m returning Ferd’s call.” Read more
In coming weeks, COVID-19 counts permitting, sports competition will resume at public high schools on Oahu and Hawaii island after more than a year’s break, underwritten by a remarkable ground swell of community support. Read more
With the comings and goings — mostly goings — in the University of Hawaii men’s basketball program lately, some people would have you believe the NCAA’s transfer portal is the devil’s own doing. Read more
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Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s 23rd birthday came three weeks earlier, but it sure looks like the presents started to pile up on Friday. Read more
Weeks like this — and those leading up to a competitive return to the Lotte Championship at the Kapolei Golf Course next month — are ones that Michelle Wie West thought she would never have again on a golf course. Read more
On a Sunday in Kailua it all came together for quarterback Marcus Mariota. Read more
Leave it to Loyola of Chicago, Oral Roberts and the other disciples of anarchy to remind us what it is we’ve been missing in the College Football Playoff these past few years. Read more
If the bronze bust of the late Gov. John A. Burns fronting the main entrance to Aloha Stadium could talk, you wonder what the patriarch of the place might say today. Read more
More than four years ago the University of Hawaii athletic department commissioned a “what if” architectural study and master plan for its lower campus area to glimpse what the future might hold as its part of a broader, school-wide 2050 effort. Read more
In the time that it seemingly takes to say the official mouthful that is the Air Force Reserve Big West Men’s Basketball Championship presented by the Hawaiian Islands, the University of Hawaii men’s team was swiftly sent packing, again. Read more
Right about now, convention tells us, the Hawaii Pacific University women’s basketball team should be working itself up into a real screaming mad lather. Read more
Dak Prescott and fans of the Dallas Cowboys aren’t the only ones reveling in the news of the quarterback’s mega-millions new contract these days. Read more
This needs to be the year that the University of Hawaii men’s basketball team finally sheds its streak of Big West Conference mediocrity. Read more
Two years after the San Jose Giants retired Lenn Sakata’s jersey and packed it off to mark his place in the California League Hall of Fame, somebody will be wearing jersey No. 14 again this season at venerable Municipal Stadium. Read more
University of Hawaii football coach Todd Graham was effusive in his praise, tossing around adjectives such as “amazing” and “remarkable” in a Wednesday Zoom session. Read more
There is a definite pecking order to college football, and some of it extends to the announcing of schedules, which is why the Southeastern Conference unveils its slate in January and the Mountain West Conference comes out with its … Read more
Who knew that one of the most sought-after positions in the University of Hawaii Hilo athletic department these days would be volunteer floor wiper at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium? Read more
If you are former University of Hawaii coach Dave Shoji or anybody else who scans the broadcasts of women’s volleyball these days, you’ve got to be wondering what this year of enforced absence from competition might hold for the Rainbow Wahine. Read more
It turned out to be one of UH’s biggest bargains in terms of producing championships. So much so that, in time, the administration agreed to come up with the means to pay separate salaries. Read more
One of the things to admire about quarterback Marcus Mariota is that he generously gives back through his Motiv8 Foundation in every community where he has lived and played. Read more
As big wave champion Billy Kemper and a group of others helped pull fellow surfer Mikey “Redd” O’Shaughnessy to safety after a severe wipeout on the reef at Pipeline on Sunday, Kemper was stirred by what he had seen in his friend’s eyes and the dark memories it brought back. Read more
