January 3, 2008 June Jones wasn’t ready to talk upon Hawaii’s arrival from New Orleans yesterday, but that didn’t mean many of the Warriors players and coaches weren’t ready to reflect on the Sugar Bowl and season as a whole.
The team members who returned to Oahu yesterday aboard a Hawaiian Airlines charter were greeted by music and […]
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January 3, 2008 A handful of fans brushed off a light rain to greet the University of Hawaii football team at the Manoa campus yesterday upon their return from a loss in the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
“We just came from the airport,” said 13-year-old Anela Summers. “We thought we would be able to see them (there), but we […]
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January 2, 2008NEW ORLEANS » Those who thought Hawaii belonged on the same field with Georgia quickly discovered otherwise in last night’s 41-10 Allstate Sugar Bowl shellacking before 74,383 boisterous fans packed into the Superdome.
The Bulldogs made a statement for not being invited to the national championship game and took it out on the Warriors in one […]
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January 1, 2008 NEW ORLEANS » At today’s Sugar Bowl game at the Louisiana Superdome, Mia Okinaga hopes to create “a chicken-skin moment” with the help of Hawaii fans and 2,000 green, black and white stadium cards.
Okinaga and a group of “section leaders” from Roy and Sonya Miyashiro’s Regal Travel tour group will be carrying boxes of […]
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January 1, 2008A look at two free Sugar Bowl parties being held in Honolulu: Creations in Catering Sugar Bowl Party
When: 1:30 p.m.
Where: Dole Ballrooms at Dole Cannery
Cost: Free admission, $3 parking
Fare: Pupu platters, $20, and individual items, about $6 each
Extras: Door prizes, sales of official Sugar Bowl souvenir program and T-shirts
Reservations: 521-7101 (parties of nine or more)
Junior […]
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January 1, 2008Even if you couldn’t make it to the Big Easy, there’s no shortage of places to watch today’s Allstate Sugar Bowl here at home. Aside from the usual sports bars, a handful of locations are holding free public parties for those fans who want to watch the game with a few hundred of their closest […]
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January 1, 2008Fans might have to greet the University of Hawaii football Warriors at the Manoa campus rather than at Honolulu Airport when the team returns from New Orleans tomorrow. The team’s chartered flight aboard a Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 767-300ER aircraft is scheduled to arrive in Honolulu at 3:35 p.m.
However, the state Department of Transportation has not […]
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January 1, 2008 NEW ORLEANS » The usual New Year’s Eve firecracker haze wasn’t present in the cool night air here, but it was plenty noisy when the clock struck 12 and roughly 4,000 University of Hawaii football fans greeted 2008, buoyed by hopes of a Warrior victory today in the Sugar Bowl.
They were all packed together […]
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December 31, 2007The Big Easy says, “Aloha, y’all,” as Warrior backers party before the big game
NEW ORLEANS » The Warrior nation has arrived for the Battle of New Orleans.
The Big Easy is finally abuzz with football fans arriving in droves.
The school colors of both the University of Hawaii and the University of Georgia were mixing everywhere throughout […]
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December 30, 2007 NEW ORLEANS » Bill Curl has seen it all. Originally from Ohio, he’s been the cordial director of media relations for 31 years for the Louisiana Superdome, the most recognizable landmark outside of downtown in this still-recovering Gulf Coast city.
Curl was there when the domed stadium was at its best as one of the […]
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