Believe I mentioned last season when I was up at UCSB that Mendoza’s family has a ranch. They have several miniature horses. This is a picture of Bert, short for Liberty, with Sarah’s dad Don, whose birthday is today 8-10.
Hi Mr. Reardon, I have a 14 year old grandson who pitches for a Pony league team. Like you, I am very concerned about youth Tommy John injuries and therefore very much appreciate your reports on the subject. In my opinion only being concerned adults is not adequate responsibility for our youths and we need to as you mentioned: “err on the side of caution” to protect future sports prospects. Therefore, if I may suggest, all youth baseball teams should […]
When Michelle Wie won the U.S. Women’s Open on Sunday, I tried to recall if any other golfer from Hawaii — man or woman — had won a major. Ann Miller reminded me that David Ishii had won some on the Japan tour. And she mentioned Jackie Pung. Ah, yes, Jackie Pung … one of Hawaii’s all-time sports greats, period. Winner of five LPGA tournaments in the 1950s. Famous for celebrating with hula at the 18th green. She was second at […]
Dave, I appreciate that you wrote a column on U.S. soccer today. I’ve played all my life, and at 56 I’m still playing. I’ve followed the U.S. national team closely since the World Cup in 1994 (that was the year of the baseball strike. And sports channels across the nation gave a few minutes of air time for the World Cup, but much more for the nail biting developments of the baseball strike….). I hope you don’t take this the […]
In the interest of hearing out differing opinions, here’s an email reader Gary Beck said I could share. He described today’s column about the Washington NFL team’s nickname as an “atrocity.” Interesting choice of word considering the subject matter and origin of the nickname: I was exceedingly disappointed to learn that you have been seduced by a narrow view (financed no doubt by casinos and tax-free cigarettes) of a much larger situation. From what I have read, only 10% of […]
Kamehameha Schools Maui isn’t what most people would call an athletic powerhouse — not yet, anyway. But if helping student-athletes to continue competing in their sports in college is a barometer of success — and I think it certainly should be — this school has got it going on. According to figures from Kamehameha spokesman Pakalani Bello, a whopping 17.5 percent of the Pukalani campus’ 120 seniors (that 120 includes 43 who did not play a varsity sport) have signed […]
If I were walking down the street and encountered someone wearing a hoodie, of any race, I wouldn’t cross the street to avoid him or her. Same if it were someone with tattoos and a bald head. Would my guard be elevated? Perhaps. His examples were clunky, but I think what Mark Cuban said Thursday regarding racism was honest and universal. He related a lot of things many of us think, but don’t have the courage to say. The awkwardness […]
I don’t normally write about anything having to do with intermediate school or JV sports, but when someone breaks a 31-year-old record in track and field it catches my attention. Madison Moku broke a record set in 1983 at the ILH championships. Moku, an eighth-grader at Hawaii Baptist, ran 200 meters in 26.13 in the finals Saturday at Punahou. Amy Hallett of St. Andrew’s Priory ran 26.7 (hand-timed) in 1983. Moku had run 26.71 in the trials.