Want to know, in a nutshell, where all this summer's comings and goings -- mostly goings -- of the Western Athletic Conference leave the University of Hawaii in the near term?
Remember that controversial student athletic fee adopted by the University of Hawaii last month, the $1.85 million windfall designed to help the athletic department take a big step toward solvency?
When Fresno State and Nevada broke ranks last week and announced they were bolting the Western Athletic Conference for the Mountain West, commissioner Karl Benson branded the deserters as "selfish."
Head down and grim-faced, University of Hawaii athletic director Jim Donovan stepped to the press conference microphone Wednesday in the wake of the Western Athletic Conference's latest breakup and termed it a "dark day" for the school.
Head down and grim-faced, University of Hawaii athletic director Jim Donovan stepped to the press conference microphone Wednesday in the wake of the Western Athletic Conference's latest breakup and termed it a "dark day" for the school.
For years Fresno State officials have scoffed at the charge one of its fans flung a screwdriver that narrowly missed the back of University of Hawaii football coach June Jones in Bulldog Stadium.
After the University of Hawaii football team lost to national-championship-bound Southern California 21-5 in the 1978 regular-season finale, UH coach Dick Tomey railed at the suggestion there was comfort in "coming close."