Hawaii Warrior World

Formerly about Rainbow Warriors basketball, but now covering all University of Hawaii sports.

About the blog host

Brian McInnis has covered sports on Oahu full time since 2007, when he joined the Honolulu Star-Bulletin staff as a general reporter. He was the UH basketball beat writer from the 2008-09 season through 2017-18. Follow him on twitter @Brian_McInnis

Latest news

Hawaii men’s basketball: Rarity for UH, Big West as home game vs. UC Irvine picked up on ESPN2

By Brian McInnis on January 28, 2020

It’s a regular occurrence for a Hawaii basketball Big West road game to get picked up on Fox Sports Prime Ticket, ESPN3, ESPNU, or even once in a while, ESPN2. But Big West home games? That’s never happened — until Tuesday. UH announced its marquee home game against Big West co-leader UC Irvine on Feb. 15 will be broadcast on ESPN2, marking the first time in UH’s eight years of Big West membership a conference game at the Stan Sheriff Center […]

Hawaii men’s basketball: 100th season celebration ramps up

By Brian McInnis on January 24, 2020

The tributes continue to roll in. While it’s true that the entire 2019-20 season has been a tribute of sorts to the century-plus history of Hawaii basketball, Saturday’s contest against UC Davis — billed as the 100th season celebration game — will take things to a new level. UH held a special get-together at Giovanni Pastrami on Thursday night, featuring some of the same former players, staff members and supporters who will be present Saturday. Great time catching up with […]

Hawaii football: Craig Stutzmann thanks islands in Twitter post

By Brian McInnis on January 23, 2020

Former Hawaii football quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator Craig Stutzmann, a strong candidate for the head coaching job that went to Todd Graham, became the third former member of the program to take to Twitter in recent days and thank those he’s leaving behind. UH’s decision to hire Graham on Tuesday night cemented his move to Pullman, Wash., to be a member of the new Washington State staff. As ex-coach Nick Rolovich and ex-quarterback Cole McDonald did, Stutzmann expressed […]

Hawaii softball: Coach Bob Coolen readies for 29th season

By Brian McInnis on January 23, 2020

The Hawaii softball team made a return to relevance in 2019. Will it build on that act, or recede? UH, second place in the Big West a year ago, was this week picked to finish third in the eight-team league, behind four-time defending champion Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach State. Coach Bob Coolen launched his 29th season as head coach with the team’s first official practices last week. The regular-season opener is Feb. 6 against Northern Colorado in the […]

Hawaii football: Chevan Cordeiro welcomes Todd Graham as coach

By Brian McInnis on January 22, 2020

A 2020 Hawaii football team leader spoke about his outlook for the program on Wednesday afternoon. Todd Graham? Sure. He was all over the news. But presumptive 2020 starting quarterback Chevan Cordeiro also lent his voice in a 1-on-1 interview with Hawaii Warrior World as he came off the Clarence T.C. Athletics Complex practice field from a workout with teammates. Cordeiro, who will be a third-year sophomore in the fall, connected with Graham almost immediately. He actually took the initiative, […]

Hawaii football: Q&As with new coach Todd Graham, athletic director David Matlin

By Brian McInnis on January 22, 2020

After a roughly half-hour introductory press conference on Wednesday at the Manoa Lower Campus, new Hawaii football coach Todd Graham and athletic director David Matlin broke off for group scrum interviews and 1-on-1s. Graham spoke to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Hawaii Warrior World for several minutes. View this post on Instagram New #HawaiiFB coach Todd Graham touched on a variety of subjects in a Q&A session with the @staradvertiser and Hawaii Warrior World. A post shared by Hawaii Warrior World […]

Hawaii football: Todd Graham named Rainbow Warriors’ new football coach

By Brian McInnis on January 21, 2020

The University of Hawaii and athletic director David Matlin looked outward and older for the 25th head coach (correction: 24th, as UH is not counting the four games coached by Chris Naeole in 2015) in UH football lore. Todd Graham, 55, a veteran of head coaching stops at Rice, Tulsa, Pittsburgh and Arizona State, was named as the Rainbow Warriors new head coach on Tuesday night, after speculation abounded that UH’s hire would come from a younger member of Nick […]

Hawaii men’s volleyball: Lewis apologizes for broadcaster’s comments disparaging “Rainbow Warriors” nickname

By Brian McInnis on January 17, 2020

An exciting top-five men’s volleyball matchup between Hawaii and Lewis — eventually won in four sets by the No. 1 Rainbow Warriors — took an interesting turn between the first and second sets on Friday at Romeoville, Ill. With the Flyers taking a 1-0 set lead — the first set taken from UH all season — the Lewis student broadcasting team, apparently not realizing its microphones were still hot, went on a questionable tangent, led by the play-by-play man. He […]

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