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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 31, 2021
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.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 29, 2021
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.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 28, 2021
Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s 23rd birthday came three weeks earlier, but it sure looks like the presents started to pile up on Friday.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 26, 2021
Among those closely watching the University of Hawaii’s plans for on-campus football this season is ESPN Events, which owns and operates the SoFi Hawaii Bowl.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 26, 2021
Lawmakers are seeking to have $10.6 million budgeted to help Aloha Stadium stay in operation through 2025, the Stadium Authority was told during a briefing at its monthly meeting on Thursday.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 25, 2021
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.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 24, 2021
The previous eight Lotte events were held at Ko Olina, which was unable to host this year.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 24, 2021
On a Sunday in Kailua it all came together for quarterback Marcus Mariota.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 23, 2021
The NFL Network reported Mariota will receive $3.5 million. If he hits all the bonus thresholds it could be worth as much s $8 million.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 23, 2021
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.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 22, 2021
The Las Vegas Raiders are expected to announce as soon as today that quarterback Marcus Mariota has signed a one-year agreement that will keep him with the team for 2021.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 21, 2021
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.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 19, 2021
Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Marcus Mariota gets to do something fairly rare where he lives — he has an opportunity to bet millions on himself.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 19, 2021
The Big West Board of Directors said on Thursday it will permit conference members, including the University of Hawaii, “institutional discretion” in whether to bring back fans to spring sports events.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 18, 2021
Men’s volleyball, softball and baseball are among the spring sports where UH has traditionally had seating for fans.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 18, 2021
Even with University of Hawaii football no longer in the picture for stadium use in 2021, the New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District will wait until sometime in 2022 before it begins tearing down the current facility, a NASED official said.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 17, 2021
The University of Hawaii said it hasn’t decided whether it will take part in EA Sports’ relaunching of its popular college football video game.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 17, 2021
The LPGA’s lone tour stop in Hawaii this season, the Lotte Championship, will move from Ko Olina to the Kapolei Golf Course, people involved said.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 16, 2021
The LPGA’s Lotte Championship will have a new host course in Hawaii for the time in its nine-year history.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 16, 2021
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.
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- By Ferd Lewis flewis@staradvertiser.com
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March 14, 2021
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.
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