Iceman trades football for futbol

woohoo, so how does the eligibility work between NAIA and other Div 1 schools.

ST and Tsaiko Blog Dogs,

“futbol”? what language is this? I have seen it before in other stories about soccer but cannot figure out if it is Italian or Spanish…I think in German it is “Fussball”.

Good Morning and Happy Aloha Friday! I hope everyone has a good one and has a great weekend too!

Aloha Kakahiaka!

guess kelly will relinquish his scholarship?

It is great to see a photo of the Patek family again!

The Sacramento Bee mentioned UH’s Pro Day.

Hawaii held its pro day today in Carson, Ca., reasoning that the school could take advantage of the horde of NFL scouts and coaches who were in the neighborhood a day earlier for USC’s pro day. The 49ers were represented by David McCloughan, the team’s director of college scouting. Perhaps the most intriguing prospect was David Veikune, a 257-pound defensive end the 49ers likely would convert to an outside linebacker, a la Parys Haralson, Manny Lawson and Jay Moore. NFL Draft Scout has Veikune going somewhere in the third or fourth rounds. Veikune looked good at the Senior Bowl in January.

I’d choose to see the Bangles over Hanna Montana. My wife and kids have never heard of Hanna Montana, so I think they would actually go along with that.

ST,

At least Rich will be in Hawaii in a couple of months. I’m hoping that Ronnie sets up a Calf Call that I can attend so that I can see him then, or I might actually end up seeing him more in Hawaii than in California this year.

Also I will post an update from the game later tonight. Hopefully Herc gets some touches near the goal line tonight

Aloha from the tropical islands of Hawaii on the coconut wireless in digital paradise……

Good Morning TsaiKo Ohana…..TGIF….

Great coverage of Pro Day ST and also the awesome fan coverage by Pauoa Boy…

Good luck to the “Iceman” in Futbol…

Back to the Future………

If you’re so lucky to wake up this morning and realize today’s your birthday, eh- Happy Birthday, eh?

“Former Warriors linebacker Solomon Elimimian maxed out at 30 feet, 1/2 inch in the vertical jump at the University of Hawai’i’s Pro Day in Carson, Calif.”

Leapin lizards…maybe Sol should tryout for the NBA or at the very least join the Warrior Volleyball team before the MPFS playoffs! 🙂

From NAIA to NCAA, it’s strict.
From NCAA to NAIA, not so strict.
Can you say, “May i see your transcripts, credits, and transferable classes”.

C_C ~ Dan Can…take the Blame for the Lame Name!

Good morning Tsaikos…

Good luck to Dan Kelly in his futbol endeavours….

Eh, is it somebody’s birthday tomorrow??? or is it today? I think I hear Koa-mahu calling….LMAO

Howzit Mr. C…good to see you on board in the top 25…

Okay, gotta run for now…be back later.

Happy Friday to all…

Yes, I told ST last night that I’d drive to LAX and meet him & the Princess for breakfast. When I woke up, I had a really sore throat/sinus problem. I sounded a lot worse than ST. The party I attended was right across the street from the world premiere of the Hannah Montana movie, so Hollywood Blvd. was shut down and traffic was a nightmare. I took the subway from Universal Studios to Hollywood. It cost $1.25 each way. I urge anyone who visits L.A. to check out the rail system. It’s really cool.

Great news about Iceman. I hope he makes it to the next level in FOOTBALL. I’m not sure what was with him last year ‘cuz he wasn’t nearly the same as in 2007.

Gooooood Morrrrrr-nenng, Tsai-ko Ohana!

Morning, Mr. Colomohana! Uh….no Jannabelle’s breakfast this morning?

Advertiser advertising people:

Is it really effective to put the same commercial at the start of every video from the Princess? The people who watch one of the Pro Day videos will most likely watch all of them…I think the message gets less effective after so many repetitions.

Best wishes to Mike Trapasso tonite and his boyz-of-clutch.

On paper, the Spart’s team BA in contrast to our Bowz looks like a mis-match, except in the one category that matters most–getting hits, with two-outs and runners in scoring position.

Go Bows!

Re-Do I think the WAC and ESPN slighted UH in giving UH lesser top billing and television exposure than other WAC teams? No, I don’t. And these are the reasons.

For UH these are the facts, no players on the All-Wac Freshmen team, and 1 returning All-Wac First Team player (Estes). Add to it that UH appearances last year on national television were bad, runaway losses to Florida, Oregon State and Notre Dame. With a roster with lesser proven players than the predominate WAC teams, last years history of big losses and the other WAC teams having a greater pool of star players wouldn’t this make sense to television executives and the WAC front office showcasing the teams that project to be at the top? I do. UH being left out or being slighted is untrue. The facts speak for them selves.

When ESPN scours the rosters and looks and dissects all of the WAC team’s rosters and the returning star players in the league for the 2009 season, do you think they see many from UH? No. Do they see Nevada with seven (+2 from the All-WAC freshmen team) , Boise with six (+5 from the All-WAC freshmen team) and Louisiana with 5 (+4 All-WAC Freshmen) as the predominate teams in the WAC with the most proven players? Yes, definitely. Compared to the aforementioned teams, what do they see as proven players or stars on UH roster…very little. Right? At least in comparison to the other top teams UH has less proven players–the other top teams do, and this is one reason UH, I think, wasn’t overlooked. Or dissed as others (UH fans) think. I mean think about it…Nevada has..gulp…7 returning all stars entering the 2009 football season amongst it’s 66 returning lettermen.. So it’s easy to understand why they have 5 dates with ESPN and UH has 2.

So subsequently, the teams that have the most star returning players should receive the most television exposure. Right? So, again, no I don’t think UH is being slighted by appearing in lesser ESPN games than Boise, Nevada and Louisiana Tech. The facts speak for themselves. If someone said if it would be surprising if UH finished 4th or 5th would that make them sound cynical? Maybe, especially if they’re a UH fan. But the television people and the WAC probably see UH as the 4th or 5th best team in the league…and I think they’re right. And showcasing ones that are 4th or 5th best at something has less of appeal and generates less interests than the ones projected ahead of UH, where the likelihood those teams at the forefront will generate more interests.. To me this makes sense.

As you looked at the players returning they’re are more of the star players on the other team’s rosters than that of UH. If your factor the players from the All-WAC freshmen teams the past few years, players that have one-two years of development and look at UH freshmen and second year players that have very little game experience experience there’s a huge gap there, too, compared to what other team have… So the bottom line is that UH has they’re work cut out for them–imo, next year’s going to be tough journey…and I hope UH’s inspiration offsets the other team’s experience and other team’s star type players and younger players that have greater experience than UH’s.

2008 All-WAC Football Teams-
All-Wac Players returning for the 2009 season

Nevada–(7)

FIRST TEAM
QB Colin Kaepernick, Nevada, 6-6, 215, So.—Offensive Player of the Year
RB Vai Taua, Nevada, 5-10, 225, So.
DL Kevin Basped, Nevada, 6-6, 240, So

SECOND TEAM
OL Alonzo Durham, Jr., Nevada
OL Mike Gallett, So., Nevada
DL Dontay Moch, So., Nevada
P Brad Langley, So., Nevada

Boise State (6)

FIRST TEAM
DL Ryan Winterswyk, Boise State, 6-4, 258, So
DB Kyle Wilson, Boise State, 5-10, 185, Jr.

SECOND TEAM
WR Austin Pettis, So., Boise State
QB Kellen Moore, Fr., Boise State
DB Jeron Johnson, So., Boise State
ST Kyle Wilson, Jr., Boise State

Louisiana Tech (5)

FIRST TEAM
RB Daniel Porter, Louisiana Tech, 5-9, 189, Jr
DL D’Anthony Smith, Louisiana Tech, 6-2, 292, Jr
DB *Antonio Baker, Louisiana Tech, 5-11, 200, Jr.
ST Phillip Livas, Louisiana Tech, 5-8, 170, So.

SECOND TEAM
OL Rob McGill, So., Louisiana Tech

Fresno State (4)

SECOND TEAM
OL Andrew Jackson, So., Fresno State
LB Chris Carter, So., Fresno State
LB Ben Jacobs, So., Fresno State
DB Moses Harris, Jr., Fresno State

San Jose State (3)

FIRST TEAM
LB Duke Ihenacho, San Jose State, 6-1, 200, So.

SECOND TEAM
DL Carl Ihenacho, Jr., San Jose State
LB Justin Cole, Jr., San Jose State

Idaho (1)

SECOND TEAM
OL Mike Iupati, Jr., Idaho

Utah State (2)

SECOND TEAM
OL Brennan McFadden, Jr., Utah State
LB Paul Igboeli, Jr., Utah State

New Mexico State (0)

Hawai‘i (1)

FIRST TEAM
OL *John Estes, Hawai‘i, 6-2, 290, Jr

WAC TOP OFFENSIVE FRESHMAN
QB Kellen Moore, Boise State

WAC TOP DEFENSIVE FRESHMAN
LB James-Michael Johnson, Nevada

WAC ALL-FRESHMAN OFFENSE
QB Kellen Moore, Boise State
RB Princeton McCarty, Idaho
RB Robert Turbin, Utah State
WR Preston Davis, Idaho
WR Stanley Morrison, Utah State
TE Kyle Efaw, Boise State
T Mike Grady, New Mexico State
T Nate Potter, Boise State
G Funaki Asisi, Utah State
G Kris Cavitt, Louisiana Tech
C Thomas Byrd, Boise State

WAC ALL-FRESHMAN DEFENSE
E Jared Barron, Louisiana Tech
E Matt Broha, Louisiana Tech
T Billy Winn, Boise State
LB James-Michael Johnson, Nevada
LB Kyle Knox, Fresno State
LB Brandon Marshall, Nevada
LB Bobby Wagner, Utah State
CB Terry Carter, Louisiana Tech
CB Desia Dunn, Fresno State
S George Iloka, Boise State
S Michael Zant, New Mexico State

WAC ALL-FRESHMAN SPECIALISTS
K Kevin Goessling, Fresno State
P Kyle Hughes, New Mexico State
KR Brandon Rutley, San Jose State
PR Rashad Evans, Fresno State
Re-Do I think the WAC and ESPN slighted UH in giving UH lesser top billing and television exposure than other WAC teams? No, I don’t. And these are the reasons.

eh, bighilofan2, share n tell your impressions when u spak on da shawman in woweeland. My impressions were shakas at first blush–hope urs will be too.

Re-Do I think the WAC and ESPN slighted UH in giving UH lesser top billing and television exposure than other WAC teams? No, I don’t. And these are the reasons.

For UH these are the facts, no players on the All-Wac Freshmen team, and 1 returning All-Wac First Team player (Estes). Add to it that UH appearances last year on national television were bad, runaway losses to Florida, Oregon State and Notre Dame. With a roster with lesser proven players than the predominate WAC teams, last years history of big losses and the other WAC teams having a greater pool of star players wouldn’t this make sense to television executives and the WAC front office showcasing the teams that project to be at the top? I do. UH being left out or being slighted is untrue. The facts speak for them selves.

When ESPN scours the rosters and looks and dissects all of the WAC team’s rosters and the returning star players in the league for the 2009 season, do you think they see many from UH? No. Do they see Nevada with seven (+2 from the All-WAC freshmen team) , Boise with six (+5 from the All-WAC freshmen team) and Louisiana with 5 (+4 All-WAC Freshmen) as the predominate teams in the WAC with the most proven players? Yes, definitely. Compared to the aforementioned teams, what do they see as proven players or stars on UH roster…very little. Right? At least in comparison to the other top teams UH has less proven players–the other top teams do, and this is one reason UH, I think, wasn’t overlooked. Or dissed as others (UH fans) think. I mean think about it…Nevada has..gulp…7 returning all stars entering the 2009 football season amongst it’s 66 returning lettermen.. So it’s easy to understand why they have 5 dates with ESPN and UH has 2.

So subsequently, the teams that have the most star returning players should receive the most television exposure. Right? So, again, no I don’t think UH is being slighted by appearing in lesser ESPN games than Boise, Nevada and Louisiana Tech. The facts speak for themselves. If someone said if it would be surprising if UH finished 4th or 5th would that make them sound cynical? Maybe, especially if they’re a UH fan. But the television people and the WAC probably see UH as the 4th or 5th best team in the league…and I think they’re right. And showcasing ones that are 4th or 5th best at something has less of appeal and generates less interests than the ones projected ahead of UH, where the likelihood those teams at the forefront will generate more interests.. To me this makes sense.

As you looked at the players returning they’re are more of the star players on the other team’s rosters than that of UH. If your factor the players from the All-WAC freshmen teams the past few years, players that have one-two years of development and look at UH freshmen and second year players that have very little game experience experience there’s a huge gap there, too, compared to what other team have… So the bottom line is that UH has they’re work cut out for them–imo, next year’s going to be tough journey…and I hope UH’s inspiration offsets the other team’s experience and other team’s star type players and younger players that have greater experience than UH’s

Last year nobody from UH made the All-WAC freshmen team. The 2007 year I’m not sure if we had any, but other teams players are gaining experience fast, where the hope is that 2-3 years I hope UH has an answer.

WAC TOP OFFENSIVE FRESHMAN
QB Kellen Moore, Boise State

WAC TOP DEFENSIVE FRESHMAN
LB James-Michael Johnson, Nevada

WAC ALL-FRESHMAN OFFENSE
QB Kellen Moore, Boise State
RB Princeton McCarty, Idaho
RB Robert Turbin, Utah State
WR Preston Davis, Idaho
WR Stanley Morrison, Utah State
TE Kyle Efaw, Boise State
T Mike Grady, New Mexico State
T Nate Potter, Boise State
G Funaki Asisi, Utah State
G Kris Cavitt, Louisiana Tech
C Thomas Byrd, Boise State

Cont.

ALL-WAC FRESHMAN DEFENSE
E Jared Barron, Louisiana Tech
E Matt Broha, Louisiana Tech
T Billy Winn, Boise State
LB James-Michael Johnson, Nevada
LB Kyle Knox, Fresno State
LB Brandon Marshall, Nevada
LB Bobby Wagner, Utah State
CB Terry Carter, Louisiana Tech
CB Desia Dunn, Fresno State
S George Iloka, Boise State
S Michael Zant, New Mexico State

FRESHMAN SPECIALISTS
K Kevin Goessling, Fresno State
P Kyle Hughes, New Mexico State
KR Brandon Rutley, San Jose State
PR Rashad Evans, Fresno State

April 3rd, 2009 at 9:47 am

Cont.
Defense-WAC Freshmen

E Jared Barron, Louisiana Tech
E Matt Broha, Louisiana Tech
T Billy Winn, Boise State
LB James-Michael Johnson, Nevada
LB Kyle Knox, Fresno State
LB Brandon Marshall, Nevada
LB Bobby Wagner, Utah State
CB Terry Carter, Louisiana Tech
CB Desia Dunn, Fresno State
S George Iloka, Boise State
S Michael Zant, New Mexico State

Specialist
K Kevin Goessling, Fresno State
P Kyle Hughes, New Mexico State
KR Brandon Rutley, San Jose State
PR Rashad Evans, Fresno State

Ryan Mouton was singled out for praise when SI reviewed the Pro Day results around the country.

Ryan Mouton/DB/Hawaii: Mouton ran one forty during the Hawaii pro day on Thursday, timing in the low 4.4’s despite pulling his hamstring midway through the sprint, an injury he suffered at the combine. Earlier in the day Mouton posted a broad jump of 11 feet. Mouton is a real wild card in April’s draft and a cornerback who could be selected much earlier than people expect. He’s incredibly athletic and scouts love his potential.

Pro Football Weekly praised Veikune.

Veikune shows versatility
Defensive end David Veikune and CB Ryan Mouton were the headliners at Hawaii’s pro day and both showed well. Veikune, who did linebacker drills during the workout, is apparently confident in his ability to potentially transition to a two-point stance in a 3-4. Said Veikune: “I’m not going to lie, I’ve got hands.” Mouton ran a 4.42 before pulling a hamstring.

Recently, Kenny Patton made the all-wac frosh team, so did Sol.
That’s 1 for 2 in actual all-wac talent over the term of their career.
We have been recruiting JUCOs under MAC to fill gaps, especially in the secondary and our DL.

Next year?
Paipai has a chance.
As MAC stocks up with blue chip high school recruits–Hawaii will bust out with more promising frosh players.

This Maryland Senator has introduced a bill to save the newspaper industry.

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism reports that a typical metropolitan paper runs 70 stories a day, counting the national, local and business sections. In contrast, a half-hour of television news includes only 10 to 12 stories. Research shows that broadcast news follows the agenda set by newspapers, often repeating the same items with less detail. And newspaper reporters forge relationships with people; they build a network, which creates avenues to information.

But America is losing its newspaper industry. While the economy has caused an immediate problem, the business model for newspapers, based on circulation and advertising revenue, is broken. That decline is a harbinger of tragedy for communities nationwide and for our democracy.

This is why I introduced the Newspaper Revitalization Act to help our disappearing community and metropolitan papers by allowing them to become nonprofit organizations. My goal is to save local coverage by reporters who know their communities, work their beats and dig up the stories that are important to our daily lives. Today, newspapers do that job; all other outlets — TV, radio, blogs — feed off that base. My bill would allow newspapers — if they choose — to operate under 501(c)(3) status for educational purposes, similar to public broadcasters.

roysan16:

if ESPN wants to televise the UH/Bosie State game because both are undefeated, UH should tell them to “stick it!”

UH did not have any “all-freshman” because there were NO Freshman starting in 2008.

if ESPN wants to televise the UH/Bosie State game because both are undefeated, UH should tell them to “stick it!”

A-House,

UH would never refuse an ESPN request during the season to televise a game! To refuse would be crazy, as national TV broadcasts are crucial for recruiting and for rankings, postseason honors, etc. Would you prefer that UH hurt itself to respond to a perceived snub? Do you know what would happen to UH in the future if ESPN decided to *not* televise any UH games…recruiting would die and the team would go downhill rapidly.

ESPN has a *lot* of power in college football. They own the rights to WAC games. They have the power to insure that NO UH games would be televised if they were upset at UH, and they own ESPN GamePlan which could easily exclude all UH games and prevent fans (and recruits) on the mainland from seeing UH games.

ESPN would lose *nothing* if they cut off all TV showings of UH, as they get higher ratings with other teams (like BSU) and they own the sports audience no matter what they show. The Warrior program would decline noticeably without any national TV broadcasts. Picking this fight doesn’t make sense to me, especially when ESPN seems to have made reasonable choices this year. ESPN asked to show the UH-BSU game on a Friday late in the season and *BSU* and the WAC decided against it. Are you going to blame ESPN for that?

ESPN has the right to add 6 WAC games during the season. Every WAC team would love additional ESPN games, and they will have to earn that right. If the Warriors win, they will get more games…earning it would be great. La Tech had to blow their 2 bye weeks to play 2 Wednesday games to get on ESPN…UH can keep their Saturday dates and get on ESPN if they win early in the season.

That was probably too harsh towards one of my favorite people on this blog. I’m giving myself a blog time out.

Garret:

April 3rd, 2009 at 10:31 am
A-House,

UH would never refuse an ESPN request during the season to televise a game! To refuse would be crazy, as national TV broadcasts are crucial for recruiting and for rankings, postseason honors, etc. Would you prefer that UH hurt itself to respond to a perceived snub? Do you know what would happen to UH in the future if ESPN decided to *not* televise any UH games…recruiting would die and the team would go downhill rapidly.

ESPN has a *lot* of power in college football. They own the rights to WAC games. They have the power to insure that NO UH games would be televised if they were upset at UH, and they own ESPN GamePlan which could easily exclude all UH games and prevent fans (and recruits) on the mainland from seeing UH games.

ESPN would lose *nothing* if they cut off all TV showings of UH, as they get higher ratings with other teams (like BSU) and they own the sports audience no matter what they show. The Warrior program would decline noticeably without any national TV broadcasts. Picking this fight doesn’t make sense to me, especially when ESPN seems to have made reasonable choices this year. ESPN asked to show the UH-BSU game on a Friday late in the season and

good points garret, agreed. helps that hawaii bowl is espn owned, im sure jd, mac and co. will try their best to cater to espn in this regard.
also, diamond head classic in basketball was started with espn help and think guys name was pete derzis. i think he was also involved in hawaii bowl formation. derzis seems to be on hawaii’s side, gotta take care of this guy.

In chips down, back to the wall, lay it on the line times such as these, UNITY and SOLIDARITY is needed. Not finger-pointing, division, ego-thumping, and blame-sharing.
I believe the Warriors could have an awesome, breakout season this year. It depends on how much they believe it and want it as individuals and as a team.
GO WARRIORS!!!

Princess Leila,

Mahalo for the videos of Pro Day! Just got thru watching them.

ST,

Thanks for keeping us informed & entertained!

GO WARRIORS!

Esme & whoosh…

roysan16 – Something seems to be infected.

When David Veikune tripped Colorado, Vaka was his host.. When David enrolled at CU he and his roomate would stay up late watching UH games.. His roomate was some dude named.
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A-House,

I was the one that posted the article about BSU turning down the Friday game at Aloha Stadium. The WAC doesn’t ask for teams to play on Friday, ESPN picks the Friday games. The WAC said *no* to ESPN for the Friday game after BSU objected. ESPN was actually trying to set up a late-season national TV game for UH that could be hopefully for the WAC title, but the WAC refused…don’t blame ESPN, blame that $%#@ Karl Benson!

ABC and ESPN are owned by Disney, with ESPN running ABC sports after ABC bought ESPN. ESPN is asking for weekday games to make money, you are correct. ESPN has other games they show on Saturdays that get higher ratings than WAC games, so if the WAC wants to maximize its national TV games they have to play on Friday or Wednesday.

Most schools happily play weekday games to get added national exposure. UH has expressed concerns about Friday games due to conflicts with high school football, which is why a late season game on the day after Thanksgiving is ideal for UH…but the WAC turned ESPN down for that!

A-house – #69 – I’m going in early June, the “land” portion of an Alaska cruise with the whole family to celebrate mom’s 80th, which she’s paying for. 😀

LizK – #78 – you go girl!

A-house, again – #85 – ABC and ESPN are both owned by Mickey Mouse.

tks homey-running 2 scans as we speak
brand new laptop-seems like I developed some fragmentation in the screen, there’s one big looking blob the size of a quarter that doesn’t go away, and some lines that streak—I have a hunch I may have left it too long in the sun/ car……I know what your thinking … hee haw…..later.

Calipari sure got an amazing contract. When you get paid $31.65 million, shouldn’t you be expected to reach the Sweet Sixteen at least a few times instead of getting a bonus for it? He gets paid $31.65 million and Kentucky (a public University!) has to buy him two cars and pay for his mileage?

The $31.65 million deal making John Calipari the highest-paid coach in college basketball is packed with perks beyond his annual salary, including membership to the country club of his choice, two cars and incentives for reaching the NCAA Sweet Sixteen and Final Four and winning a national title.

The Wildcats paid Memphis $200,000 as part of Calipari’s buyout of his Tigers’ contract, which had paid him $2.35 million per year.

Including $3 million in retention bonuses he’ll get for staying with Kentucky through March 31, 2016, Calipari is in line to receive an average of $4 million a year over the eight years.

The deal also gives Calipari:

Two “late model, quality automobiles,” plus mileage.

Membership in a country club of his choice, including monthly dues and initiation fees.

20 prime “lower-level” season tickets to UK home games.

Eight tickets for each UK home football game.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in incentives for reaching certain milestones, such as a 75 percent graduation rate or better ($50,000), winning the Southeastern Conference ($50,000), winning the SEC tournament ($50,000), making the NCAA tournament round of 16 ($100,000), making the Final Four ($175,000), or winning the national title ($375,000).

The right to income from conducting basketball camps using UK facilities.

Should the university fire Calipari without cause, he would still get $3 million for each year left on the contract, double the annual buyout for former Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie under his memorandum of understanding.

So… who’s going to practice tomorrow at 7am?

There is a different sense of pride having everyone laugh at you while you hold your head up in defiance and walk through the bulls**t.

GO WARRIORS!!!

d1:

I know that you brought home oodles of winnings!

Did you leave some for us? Gotta make up for all the losses.

A-House,

Agreed with your post #95. I also echo Garret’s sentiment that ESPN seems to like UH (or at least doesn’t mind putting them on).

With regards to getting national airtime, I think the only way our time zone difference works to UH’s advantage is come the very last Saturday of the regular season and all the hardcore college football junkies (such as myself 😈 ) are looking for that final “last fix”. In that case I think ESPN has no problems airing a UH home-game starting at 6:30pm locally (11:30pm ET).

I knew from the moment the Wisconsin game was scheduled that late in the season it would end up on ESPN/ESPN2. Also garanz it’s gonna be the last game aired that day, so expect a start time at or near the typical 6:00pm kickoff.

Practice Sat. I’ll be there……………………….

Hope to make it to practice in the morning….

back on the Aina soon 🙂

we’ll end boise’s season early!

Will Michelle make the cut? I hope so!

who’s watching the blog?
There’s spammers #39, #108

what happened to Tulip?

They don’t sell that anymore? No one, besides me, liked Tulip so I haven’t bought any in over a year. Brunswick sardines are also getting expensive.

She was 9 over today but she might still make it…….

Kazz…that’s too bad. I would have bought one.

Whatever happened to $1 box of Pop Tarts?

Before I forget…

Best to luck to the Rainbow Wahine Softball team as they take on the current WAC leaders in Fresno State. Hope the bats come alive outside of Tauali’i and Milca. Hope Clare Warwick also comes out of her current shell in this series. As a senior and a pre-season WAC player of the year, her “awakening” should be a big boost for the rest of her teammates.

As for the BaseBOWS, SWING!!! CHEEEHOOOOO!!!!!! SAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG!!! We are battle-tested and SJSU isn’t…. Chicago State? Ah c’mon! 🙄

Yes it won’t be easy and Coach Trap has said that SJSU is the “best-coached team” he’s seen so we shall see what Coach Trap and his staff can do with our guys tonight. We haven’t faired well in series openers this season, but it all worked out. We need to start out strong and consistent at the plate.

It seems like the bats for the baseball and the softball teams are the similar issue for two different teams in two different places right now. Right now I think only Vinnie Catricala is batting over .300 and as I mentioned before other than two players, the Wahine are struggling also. On both teams I’ve seen good defense and some good pitching. But while we see continued success for the baseball team the Wahine still remain a few games shy of .500. The baseball team is compensating some inconsistent batting with TIMELY batting in big time situations and combined with key performances from deep within the bullpen from our freshman pitchers we have seen the fruits of their labor. The Wahine will need to find a similar path to success as well. While they have more younger talent stepping on the plate, I think they do not have to find “clutch pitching” like the BaseBOWS, but just consistent hitting in general.

GOOOOOOOO BOWWWSSSSSSSS!!! :mrgreen

homey…whatever happened to $1 chili at Rainbows….???

whatever happened to my bank account???????????

Who the frick started this? 😆

whateva happened to my thingy?

oh, das right……J (J) has it.. bwhahahahahahahaha.

Koa-mahu – (J)J said it’s tucked away.

I just threw up a little in my mouth..

jm012345 . . .

The weather in early June is beautiful. Not too hot. Not too cold. But, just right.

ok, see everyone at baseball tonight.

whatever happened to Pioneer Chicken???

Anyone know the softball score in Fresno?

Kazz:

1-0 Wahine. Bottom 6th.

CRW,

Not funny…. 🙁

I ceased breathing there for a bit.. 😆

Just by looking at the score looks like Ricketts and Co. did a good job, but again the hitting is not yet there. FSU is #1 in the WAC in softball right now and it’s a good sign we kept them to a minimum of sorts.

But… as they say, “that’s why we play three games!”

GEEEV ‘EM TOMORROW WAHINE!!!!!! NO SKED!!!

Jayson Kramer is pitching well and just worked his way out a jam in the 4th.
With runners in scoring position, on 3rd and 2nd and one out he KOs one and gets the third out on a 4-3 ground out.
The former Owl is tough in the pinch.
No score bottom of the 4th, no outs, Garcia just tripled.

What happened to 34.7% of my IRA?

ST:
welcome home and great job with your coverage at Pro Day.
These events are important for our departing players and count heavily as a valuable recruiting feature.
Your dedicated service goes a long way to draw attention to this particular phase of our football program.
With or without acknowledgement from the 8-second soundbit pundits. 🙂

As a general rule, MAC throws his better linemen on D.
He also upgrades his D units by moving his players to improve position speed: CB to S to LB to DE to DT. Mouton, Nauahi, Fonoti and Josh Leonard are great examples of these movements.

However, anecdotal observations reveal our OL is having problems with footspeed (OT) and mobility (OG).
Witness Aaron Kia with his gimpy knees and still starting.
Happened on both sides.
Where’s the depth?

Coach Shaw Im sure will breakdown his player inventory after SPR and evaluate his needs against his goals he has set for our O system.
Look, if you dont have the hogs pulling the wagon our O aint going anywhere–i dont care what version of the RNS they decide to run.
That was made clear last year.

Let us know–u r the eyes.

Warriors are hitting in the clutch again.
Four hits in seven and all account for three runs.
Garcia with lead-off triple in 4th and Morford singles him home.
Than Morford singles to leadoff the 7th and Vinnie hits a HR.
3-0 bows after 7.
Not bad for a team hitting at an enemic .245. 🙂

ST,

If Paipai can put on weight without losing much speed, he could make an awesome DE. Mac has recruited a lot of LBs and some of them will move to DE, depending on who gets bigger.

Free play link time. Please ignore my next 5 posts if you do not want the off-topic stuff.

Japan plans to have a walking robot on the moon by 2020.

Jayson Kramer is a scraper!
3-0, bottom 8.
Three more outs and at 95 pitch count, Trap will let him enter 9th for an attemp at a complete game shutout.

Remember how it was such big news when they discovered water on Mars? It turns out that Mars has a layer of *ice* just below its surface! Our Mars landers have actually revealed the ice without having to dig for it.

Free play links pau.

Jason,

If I had posted 6 links, I would have included the one about the mathematical formula for tsunamis. It is kind of funny that you get the links from my other blog and then you see them here…

Trap brought in Lenny Linsky, 6 3″ Frosh to close the 9th.
Showing confidence in his young arm.
Thats it, Hawaii is 1-0 in the WAC (17-9 overall), beat Sparts 3-0.

having seen paipai play several times in his senior year,

i have to disagree and say that paipai and blaze soares are from that same mold. olb written all over them. paipai’s built is slender as it is and he can run. plus, he has that nose for the ball, sort of like a heat seeking missile. all that spells an outside linebacker if you ask me.

so, i believe that nash has found two pg’s who can shoot the treys. where does that place thompson and nitoto?

and i don’t think flemmings should go pro. i don’t think he is ready and could end up like a carl english. hopefully, it is just his frustrations speaking. plus, he needs to find an outside shot first.

so finally kramer gets enough runs to get the “w”.

great to see him succeed. he most certainly worked hard for this season. having watched this kid from hanabata days to where now he is the ace of the staff is just great stuff.

i am sure papa kenton and mama frances are there at every game!

wow wie!

what is happening to that girl?
is it all in her head?

sometimes when a child protege falls off the table it affects him/her even harder than most of us.

Welcome home, Momo! Wow- scary times in Australia!

Hi al- I agree with Kekoa. Golf is indeed a mental game.

argh- MVB lost to UCLA too…

i actually believe that any game involves a lot of mental stuff, intestinal fortitude, and talent.

Liz ~ I just took a look your video showing little Lilu using ‘sign’ to communicate with you. That is really amazing for a one year old child to be so attentive! Great patience shown by your daughter to be able to teach her how to express herself.

great win for the base-bows tonight. great to see the Les so full of energetic fans. lots of little league teams. the ticket count was 3,492 or something around there. glad we all got to go home happy.
saw a few tsaikos out and about. the 2 twins, Ralph and another tsaiko i forgot your name (I’m Sorry!!!). you said hi outside by the ticket office.
also saw THE Princess there. what a trooper! just gets home from Cali and Pro day and she shows up at the game to support the guys.
and man, what a HR that was by Vinnie. my friends said it hit one of those pine trees out in left center 3/4 the way up the tree.
Go Bows! keep it going!

I’m ba-aaack!
😀

80% of the balls that don’t reach the hole don’t go in.

-Y. Berra on golf

Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical.

-Y. Berra

yogi berra was one of my favorite yankees

Ralph,

Practice sounds like a plan.

Not sure if can stick around all the way til BaseBow but prolly come back anyway.

Good to hear about attendance….

If the people don’t want to come out to the park, nobody’s going to stop them.

-Y.Berra

What happened to a hot towel for everybody on the plane? Not just 1st class?

One of my favorite yankee is Ulysses S. Grant.

…and finally,

I didn’t really say everything I said.

-Y. Berra

Oyasumina-tsai….

chawan – 2 twins…uhfan808, midori, you, and jason?

Jason who?

Anyways, I’m looking forward to recaps from those who are going.

Great to see the BaseBows take care of business in the first game of the WAC season. A shutout is to be commended, especially against a decent team like SJSU.

Also glad to hear that the attendance was very good. Keep on winning and more fans will start coming out. Could there be a sellout in the future?

I see you on the blog garret. I got up early because I have to prepare my lesson for the adult ed class for today before I go bowling.It is sad that I did not get any closurer to Ken Morita as the family did not hold any sort of service and scattered the ashes off Waikiki and did not include anyone else. Since I will not be working next year, I may be going to many of the away games if I can swing it by flying stand by..Will let you know when I will be traveling.

A celebratory 1st day of Spring Break everyone!!!

wafan,

I’m so glad for you that you have Spring Break now! I’m sure that the week off will be great for you.

My kids also just started their Spring Break. It is actually more work for us when they have Spring Break, but we’ll do a lot of fun family things. I just hope I can keep up with my work because my company doesn’t get Spring Break off!

wafan,
I find it funny that WA state schools don’t have a more coordinated spring break. The Spokane schools had theirs this past week

Aloha Kakahiaka!

Again- welcome home Momo and d1!

Momo- road games- heck… I saw the Fresno game on the schedule and made my plane res…. and then noticed I was supposed to be in Phx for my 40th (41st) Reunion!!! Ayah- what to do now… wait 10 more years or miss Fresno…???

Please come to the UNLV game if can… promises to be a fun Tsai-ko gathering!

nuff foolishness… back to sleep.

KAUAI TSAI-KOS, please join the LiLu Ohana at Poipu Beach at 2pm for bone-sucking ribs- and more F’s!

whoosh!

dj . . .

We are supposed to get up to a warm 53 today. And, tomorrow the forecast is for a ridiculous 60+!

Whoo-hoo! Shorts and T-shirt weather is finally right around the corner!!!

Individual school districts and the agrarian culture/society are the reasons for differing breaks, and start and stop dates. I wonder how different school schedules would be for each island if individual schools districts existed for each island. And with the different district offices on Oahu that might be interesting!

wafan
Your weather has been passing thru LV – so great to hear your warming trend.
Here’s something you might have your school district adopt from Queensland Australian school. Quite funny but appropriate.

This is hilarious – no wonder some people were offended!
This is the message that the Maroochydore High School Queensland , staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine . This is the actual answering machine message for the school. This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to be responsible for their children’s absences and missing homework. The school and teachers are being sued by parents who want their children’s failing grades changed to passing grades – even though those children were absent 15-30 times during the semester and did not complete enough school work to pass their classes.

The outgoing message:

Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your school. In order to assist you in connecting to the right staff member, please listen to all the options before making a selection:

To lie about why your child is absent – Press 1

To make excuses for why your child did not do his work – Press 2

To complain about what we do – Press 3

To swear at staff members – Press 4

To ask why you didn’t get information that was already enclosed
in your newsletter and several flyers mailed to you – Press 5

If you want us to raise your child – Press 6

If you want to reach out and touch, slap or hit someone – Press
7

To request another teacher, for the third time this year – Press
8

To complain about bus transportation – Press 9

To complain about school lunches – Press 0

If you realize this is the real world and your child must be
Accountable and responsible for his/her own behaviour, class work, homework and that it’s not the teachers’ fault for your child’s lack of effort: Hang up and have a nice day!

702 . . .

We have not had temps in the 50’s in months. This really will be warm weather for us.

The phone message was absolutely hilarious! If we did something like that in the US there would be law suits up the butt. A lot of parents would not be able to fathom the concept of holding their kids responsible. A few would, but the majority would not. Besides, the whole politically correct thing would preclude the use of the blunt truth. Darn it.