January 3, 2008 As soon as Colt Brennan announced his decision to return for his senior season, he became the poster boy for what would be a magical season.
The Heisman Trophy finalist spent all year downplaying his individual performances, choosing to single out his teammates and their accomplishments instead.
When the Western Athletic Conference postseason awards came out, […]
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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, 2008Howard’s three sacks lead the Bulldogs to an overwhelming Sugar Bowl victory
NEW ORLEANS » It’s one thing to reach the next level. It’s another to compete there.
Hawaii, previously the only undefeated team in major college football, fell and fell hard in the Sugar Bowl, 41-10, to an inspired Georgia team last night at the Louisiana […]
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January 2, 2008 NEW ORLEANS » The last time Hawaii came to Louisiana, the team was flagged for doing its ritual pregame dance and incited anger among a hostile crowd that responded to the Warriors’ arm-slapping moves with similar, more vulgar gestures of their own.
“I think they got mad,” Hawaii defensive lineman Michael Lafaele recalled of the […]
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January 2, 2008 NEW ORLEANS » In the end, the 12th Warrior couldn’t help get the job done.
Despite all the noise that University of Hawaii fans could muster in the Louisiana Superdome in yesterday’s 74th annual Sugar Bowl, it was the strains of “Glory, Glory to Old Georgia” that would ring in their ears.
By the beginning of […]
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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, 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 29, 2007NEW ORLEANS » History provides a touch of sweet irony for the 2008 Sugar Bowl, when the undefeated University of Hawaii takes the field to play Georgia: When the idea for the annual classic was first floated in the 1920s, Louisiana was the nation’s sugar-growing king — but only because Hawaii was a territory […]
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