Fans 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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NEW ORLEANS » It is a room full of second-chance guys and players nobody wanted.
It is also a room full of articulate and talented young men who will represent their school on one of football’s biggest stages Tuesday.
Colt Brennan and Davone Bess had brushes with the law. Ryan Grice- Mullins won just one […]

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After today’s final workout at its home field for the 2007 season, Hawaii’s next football practice is Thursday — at the same place where Drew Brees and Reggie Bush prepare for their games.
Warriors coach June Jones said he hasn’t seen the New Orleans Saints’ practice facility. But the former NFL coach had several reasons to […]

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Seven running backs have carried the ball in games for Hawaii this season.
Khevin Peoples is not among them.
But the junior’s carries this month in practice may be among the most important for the Warriors’ hopes to beat Georgia in the Jan. 1 Sugar Bowl and finish 13-0. Peoples is the primary scout […]

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Finding tickets to this year’s Sugar Bowl has been tough for some University of Hawaii fans. Making travel arrangements has been even harder.
Hawaii residents hoping to score tickets were lucky enough last week if they were willing to pay top dollar. Travel packages to New Orleans have risen to $3,499 for a Hawaiian Airlines […]

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The University of Hawaii has sold 8,500 tickets to the Sugar Bowl as of yesterday and has returned 4,000 tickets to the Sugar Bowl to be sold elsewhere, UH officials estimate. UH is holding back an additional 5,000 of its allotted 17,500 tickets.
University of Georgia season-ticket holders, meanwhile, indicated overwhelming interest in the Sugar Bowl […]

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About 7,000 exuberant University of Hawaii football fans packed the Stan Sheriff Center yesterday to celebrate the Warriors’ unprecedented entry onto the national football stage.
The unbeaten team will face fifth-ranked Georgia on New Year’s Day in New Orleans in the Sugar Bowl, it was announced on TV and to the crowd.
The gathering yesterday, nationally […]

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They did it the hard way, but the Hawaii Warriors are headed to the Big Easy.
UH had to win every game on its 12-game schedule to earn its first BCS bowl game appearance and the $4.5 to 5 million payday that goes with it.
No. 10 Hawaii (12-0) will play fourth-ranked Georgia (10-2) in the […]

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From some indications, getting tickets to the Big Easy is going to be far from its namesake.
Hotel space is already tight for travel packages because many people have already booked rooms in anticipation of the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, said Ray Miyashiro, president of local travel agency Regal Travel Inc.
“I’m not sure […]

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