Quick Reads

I encourage feedback in almost any form. And I encourage questioning authority and how our shared resources are expended. But please, please, come at least somewhat informed before taking a shot. A reader (or, maybe non-reader, or non-understander) sent me an email claiming athletic-director-to-be David Matlin is already wasting the University of Hawaii’s money by going to the Final Four. This ignorant person couldn’t be farther from the truth. If he made even a minimal effort to be informed he […]

A fundraiser to help Jeremy Ioane is scheduled for May 3, 1 to 4 p.m. at Murphy’s Bar & Grill. Ioane is the Hawaii all-state high school athlete and college football player who played his last two seasons at Boise State and graduated while battling an auto-immune disease that decimated his kidney function. Ioane undergoes dialysis treatments several times a week and is awaiting a kidney transplant. His health insurance as a Boise State athlete expired in January and medical […]

When University of Hawaii-Manoa interim chancellor Robert Bley-Vroman met with us at the Star-Advertiser on Tuesday, he said that not playing in the postseason — starting with next week’s Big West tournament — was a possibility on the table as a self-imposed sanction for the men’s basketball team in the wake of the NCAA investigation and allegations. Today, I asked UH spokesman Dan Meisenzahl for an update. After meeting with the chancellor, Meisenzahl indicated that the Rainbow Warriors will indeed […]

Former Honolulu mayor Mufi Hannemann is not among the candidates for University of Hawaii athletic director. “I did not apply and I am not a candidate,” Hannemann told me in a phone conversation Sunday evening. Sources had said Hannemann was interested as far back as December, when it was announced Ben Jay would be leaving the position, and some of his supporters urged him to consider it. Current UH associate athletic director John McNamara is the only of around 70 […]