Football

I’ve only personally met six people whom I thought were hysterically funny: Augie T, Andy Bumatai, Nicky Clark, Kanoa Leahey, Lei Colburn and my son. So when Augie says UH safety Tumua Tuinei is funny, well, that’s a good enough recommendation. Tuinei’s stand-up routine is the opening act for “A Summer 4 All” show on July 7 at the Hawaii Theatre. Here’s the Star-Advertiser story: Tumua Tuinei Tickets may be purchased at: Hawaii Theatre There also are discount tickets for […]

Yep, the Saints are marching in. Saint Louis School wideout Jonah Panoke and defensive back Kai Kaneshiro announced they have accepted 2018 scholarship from the Warriors. They join quarterback Chevan Cordeiro, who made his UH pledge two weeks ago. All three will be seniors this coming season. Here’s our take on the commitments: > Mirror images: Panoke and Kaneshiro are both 6 feet 2 and 185 pounds. In the 40-yard dash at the UH Elite Camp, Panoke was timed at […]

Remember that group, Sunday Manoa? This was one of their hits: Kawika But I digress. On this Father’s Day, the Warriors held their final youth camp of the spring/summer. The youth tour, which went from the North Shore to Kauai, ended on the Manoa campus.

Another morning, another series of workouts for the Warriors. As always, they were divided into three groups: Early, really early, where’s-the-snooze-button early.

High school quarterbacks and receivers are invited to participate in the 808 Passing Academy Camp on Friday, June 23, at Aloha Stadium. The cost? Nada. Zip. Nothing. Former UH quarterback Sean Schroeder, PAAMCO and several individual donors will pay the insurance, rental and operational costs. Each camper gets T-shirt. “Our form of payment is seeing kids succeed, like we were able to when we played,” said Schroeder, UH’s starter in 2012 and 2013. “We wanted to make it inclusive to […]

The Warriors scholarship offer to 11-year-old Titan Lacaden is unique — it drew coverage from USA Today to the New York Daily News — but not unprecedented. A brief recap of the Warriors’ youth movement: > In 2000, Patrick Lavar Harley joined the Warriors as a linebacker. He was 16. Harley could read and write at age 3. He began kindergarten at 4. He was promoted from third grade straight to fifth grade. That freshman year at UH he could […]

Nick Rolovich came away with a few observations from the past weekend’s Elite Camp, such as: > It was elite: “You’re probably talking about 95 percent of the best football players in the state were at the camp,” Rolovich said. “You’re going to hear a lot of those names being called at this year’s high school football games.” > Future Warriors? “Toward the middle of the camp, I’ve never been more convinced that the majority of our recruiting class could […]

More than 350 high school-aged football players participated in the opening night of UH’s Elite Camp on the Manoa campus. They participated in drills and competitions on Ching field and at Les Murakami Stadium. The camp continues with two sessions today.