Even 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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NEW ORLEANS » On their first day in the Big Easy, the Warriors took it easy.
The University of Hawaii football team — following an all-night flight from the islands to New Orleans — rested yesterday, sleeping and getting acclimated to their surroundings.
Today they continue practicing for the biggest game of their lives: the Sugar […]

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The Hawaii football team was scheduled to land in New Orleans this morning for the program’s first BCS bowl game and first away-from-the-islands postseason encounter since 1992.
A whole new world, this Sugar Bowl stuff.
Still, when the wheels hit the ground, the Warriors could say that in some ways, they’d been here before.
A week on […]

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Dozens of University of Hawaii fans greeted the Warriors at Honolulu Airport yesterday before they left to play the University of Georgia Bulldogs in the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day in New Orleans.
Some fans waited outside the airport terminal, while others met the team inside the security area.
“I’m just surprised how many people […]

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For a first-time visitor to practice, it would be hard to tell yesterday that Hawaii was nine days away from the biggest football game in school history.
The Warriors finished their final home workout of the year with a relay race won by the defense. Cornerback Ryan Keomaka anchored; he sprinted to the finish and was […]

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Not too long ago, fans were lining up for tickets to the Allstate Sugar Bowl and leaving disappointed.
Yesterday, there were no lines at the box office and scalpers were selling tickets for less than face value.
But more than 4,000 Warriors fans lined up at the soccer field on campus for […]

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UH and Boise share the practice facility
For the Hawaii Warriors, some things are more fun with the Boise State Broncos working out a few feet away. UH broke practice a little louder than usual yesterday.
“It’s even better when we say our yell, ‘WAC champs.’ We do it every day,” senior cornerback Ryan Keomaka said. “For […]

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The University of Hawaii is making another 1,000 Sugar Bowl tickets available to Warriors season ticket holders today.
UH athletics officials have been scrambling to fill requests for tickets after they initially underestimated the demand from fans who want to attend the Jan. 1 game in New Orleans against the University of Georgia.
Just where the […]

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The University of Hawaii has reserved more than double the number of Sugar Bowl tickets for team and university use than the University of Georgia.
And Georgia will tell the public where its 1,370 tickets are going while Hawaii has not said who will be getting its 3,000 tickets because it is still compiling a […]

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The University of Hawaii is expected to receive 500 more tickets today from the Allstate Sugar Bowl to help quell the appetite of season ticket holders with sights set on New Orleans.
But the figure does not come close to the 1,500 tickets requested by 352 die-hard fans placed on a waiting list after UH […]

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