At the Associated Press Sports Editors convention in St. Louis this past June, there was a room where copies of all the award-winning Sunday, daily and special sections resided, so editors from around the country could pore over them to see what they liked and didn’t like.

The Star-Bulletin’s 2006 combo foot-ball/volleyball preview section was awarded a top 10 (for the fourth year in a row) in the special sections category of newspapers with circulation between 40,000 and 100,000. Several times over the course of the convention, I noticed our magazine was MIA, prompting Sacramento Bee sports editor Bill Bradley to say, “We keep putting them out there and people keep taking them. That’s a sign you’re doing it right.”

This year, we’re trying to get it right again as the most important football season in the history of the program begins on the first night in September at Aloha Stadium and ends on the first night in December at the same location 11 regular-season games later.

Can they win them all? Read this magazine from front to back and we’ll provide you with enough information for you to make an educated guess.

Paul Arnett

SPORTS EDITOR