Hard work has always been part of Calderon’s DNA
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Stephen Tsai
Stephen Tsai is the Honolulu Star-Advertiser's sports beat reporter covering University of Hawaii football, men's basketball and baseball.
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Tsai reported for The Honolulu Advertiser for 29 years and the Honolulu Star-Advertiser since 2010. The National Sports Media Association has named Tsai as Hawaii's Sportswriter of the Year seven times. He served three terms as president of the Asian American Journalists Association's Hawaii chapter.
Tsai was born in New York City, and is a graduate of Roosevelt High and the University of Hawaii. Tsai and his wife have two daughters, a fireknife-performing son and five grandchildren.
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UH hoops loses key assistant coach
One of the Big West’s top defensive basketball teams is losing its architect. Read more
UH men’s basketball associate head coach joins Long Beach State
In confirming the move, Montgomery thanked Ganot, the coaching staff, players and fans. Read more
Stephen Tsai: Playing field finally being leveled for college athletes
This is the deal of the art: In a back-in-the-day scenario, you were recruited to work at a comic-book company. You received free lodging, three meals a day, and art supplies. Read more
’Bows push Cal Poly to extra innings for the win and take series 2-1
On a WWE-themed day, the Hawaii baseball team was cookin’. Read more
Hawaii baseball team beats Cal Poly with walk-off double in 11th inning
A crowd of 2,148 watched the Rainbow Warriors win two in this three-game series between Big West teams. The ’Bows improved to 22-15 overall and 6-9 in the Big West. Read more
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Resurgent player, Hawaii errors propel Cal Poly to win
An opportunistic offense, a momentum-squashing defensive play and a rejuvenated outfielder fueled the Cal Poly baseball team’s 9-5 victory over Hawaii at Les Murakami Stadium. Read more
Speedy Calderon comes through for Hawaii baseball
In the Manoa mist, Hawaii’s fastest baseball player — Naighel Ali‘i Calderon — found a clear path to the plate in a sprint-off 4-3 victory over Cal Poly at Les Murakami Stadium on Friday night. Read more
Platoon splits don’t bother ’Bows
Hawaii baseball coach Rich Hill is embracing writer C.R. Manske’s insistence that “life without left-handed people wouldn’t be right.” Read more
Former Warrior Costas Theocharidis shares his sports story in new book
Costas Theocharidis’ storybook life is now a storybook. Read more
10 UH pitchers combine on 2-hit shutout of Chaminade
In a matchup of baseball teams a mile and a division apart, Hawaii held off Chaminade 2-0 at Les Murakami Stadium. Read more
Stephen Tsai: Some suggestions for honoring Hawaii’s greats
We love to honor our sports heroes. They receive awards, farewell tours, statues and, if they’re successfully fortunate, inductions into a hall of fame. Read more
UC Santa Barbara buries ’Bows with another big inning
Rain, altered schedules and UC Santa Barbara’s big-inning offense resulted in the Hawaii baseball team’s winless weekend at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium on the UCSB campus. Read more
UC Santa Barbara coasts by Rainbows after a 6-run first inning
Justin Trimble hit a grand slam in a six-run first inning and then UC Santa Barbara coasted to today’s 6-2 baseball victory over Hawaii at the Caesar Uyesaka Stadium on the UCSB campus. Read more
Hawaii’s Ganot receives Coaches vs. Cancer Champion Award
These are hectic times for Hawaii basketball coach Eran Ganot. Read more
UC Santa Barbara baseball pours it on ’Bows
Zander Darby drove in four runs and Aaron Parker hit a tie-breaking homer in the sixth inning to lead UC Santa Barbara to Saturday’s 10-6 baseball victory over Hawaii at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium on the UCSB campus. Read more
Hawaii baseball drops second straight in Santa Barbara
The start of the game was delayed three hours because of heavy rain. Read more
Hawaii baseball suffers blowout with 1 bad inning at UCSB
On a windy Friday afternoon, the UC Santa Barbara baseball team breezed to an 8-2 victory over Hawaii at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium on the UCSB campus. Read more
Big second inning propels UCSB to win over visiting Rainbows
The Rainbow Warriors fell to 19-12 overall and 4-6 in the Big West. The Gauchos are 19-10 and 6-4. Read more
Hawaii baseball hopes rain stays away on trip
Weather or not, the Hawaii baseball team is not looking past today’s opener of a three-game road series against UC Santa Barbara at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. Read more
Donahues, Tsukada lift Rainbows by Santa Clara
Shortstop Jordan Donahue drove in three runs and made a bold dash home for another in leading the Hawaii baseball team to Tuesday’s 9-3 road victory over Santa Clara on the SCU campus. Read more
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