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Hawaii football holds first annual Island Day spring game
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On Saturday, the College of Hawaii soccer staff held its first spring sport of the Timmy Chang period as a part of its Island Day festivities on the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Advanced.
Roughly 6,000 followers appeared to absorb the day’s actions, which along with the spring sport, included a keiki zone, a number of meals vehicles and a Insurgent Souljahz live performance on the Stan Sheriff Middle.
On the sphere, the white staff, which consisted of the first-string protection and second-string offense, defeated the black staff, which consisted of the first-string offense and second string protection, 27-24.
Campbell alumnus and junior extensive receiver Tamatoa Mokiao-Atimalala led the white staff with 5 receptions for 130 yards and three touchdowns, all within the first half. In the meantime, white staff quarterback Jake Farrell was an environment friendly 13-for-17 with 222 passing yards and three touchdowns, all to Mokiao-Atimalala.
For the black staff, Brayden Schager accomplished 5 of his eight passes for 100 yards, whereas Washington State quarterback Cammon Cooper went 3-for-10 with 15 yards. Beginning working again Dedrick Parson had seven carries for 56 yards.
Hawaii will maintain its last spring observe on April 23, then on August 27, it’ll be the primary staff in faculty soccer to play a sport for the 2022 season when it hosts Vandrbilt.
Unofficial statistics from Hawaii’s 2022 spring sport are beneath:
Scoring abstract
First quarter
Black: Dedrick Parson 10 rush
White: Tamatoa Mokiao-Atimalala 16 go from Jake Farrell
Black: James Phillips 26 go from Brayden Schager
Second quarter
White: Tamatoa Mokiao-Atimalala 75 go from Jake Farrell
White: Tamatoa Mokiao-Atimalala 16 go from Jake Farrell
Black: Matthew Shipley 55 area objective
White: Kyler Halvorsen 41 area objective
Third quarter
Black: Zion Bowens 10 go from Armani Edden
Fourth quarter
White: Kyler Halvorsen 47 area objective
RUSHING (Makes an attempt, yards) — BLACK: Dedrick Parson 7-56
PASSING (Makes an attempt, completions, interceptions, yards) — BLACK: Brayden Schager 5-8-0-100, Cammon Cooper 3-10-0-15. WHITE: Jake Farrell 13-17-0-222.
RECEIVING (Receptions, yards) — WHITE: Tamatoa Mokiao-Atimalala 5-130,
Turnovers (offense)
White: Armani Edden, interception (Leonard Lee)
White: Connor Apo, interception (Leonard Lee)
Black: Ephraim Tuiloa, interception (D.J. Utu)
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Is Hawaii ready for stronger storms? Officials emphasize the need to prepare now
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Hawaii has many similarities to the islands that have been battered by Hurricane Beryl — tropical settings, resort areas, marinas and harbors, and similar construction methods.
With hurricane season underway, officials urge preparation as it “only takes one.”
Beryl rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds near 165 miles per hour, similar to Hurricane Iniki 32 years ago which caused $3 billion in damage on Kauai and caused seven deaths.
For 32 years now, Hawaii leaders have been fearing a repeat.
“You know we’re looking at Category 4, these are the types of impacts that you just can’t really just respond our way out of,” said Honolulu Emergency Management Director Hiro Toya.
He said Oahu is in a precarious situation with densely populated areas and shoreline communities. And, all the islands have evacuation challenges.
“We do have significant vulnerabilities here,” Toya said. “One is our geographic isolation. We’re much further away from help than some of the jurisdictions that have been affected by this storm…You can’t just drive over to the next jurisdiction over. You’re going to have to evacuate somewhere on island.”
State and county leaders have been nudging Hawaii toward resilience, but it takes money.
One bill at the Legislature this year would have required all new public structures built to withstand a Category 5 hurricane — but the measure died.
Another bill to increase funding for the hurricane relief fund also died.
Sen. Sharon Moriwaki said lawmakers did approve some money to widen our shorelines.
“$4 million was appropriated for the beach restoration. But it’s how do we bring the sand back in because the sand protects our shoreline,” she said.
Moriwaki also said funding was also approved to continue the Waikiki Resilience and Adaptation Plan, which was due out later this year.
“We funded $800,000 last session for the study to continue into phase two…This year we’re hoping to move into a much more serious ‘how much will it cost?’ ‘Who’s to pay?’ ‘Who’s responsible for what?,’” she said.
The Hawaii National Guard also runs annual disaster exercises across the state to maintain communication skills among the various agencies that would respond to a major hurricane.
But as we saw during the Maui Fires, emergency plans can be overpowered by mother nature. That time the hurricane was 5,000 miles away.
“This is a real problem if we’re sleeping at the wheel, so to speak. Because it’s happening in all places, whether its the Caribbean or Florida, we’re all under attack,” Moriwaki said.
Forecasters are also tracking Tropical Storm Aletta in the far eastern Pacific, but it is not expected to be a threat to land.
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Hot dog eating contest crowns Patrick Bertoletti as new men’s champion
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NEW YORK — It was the Fourth of July in New York City, and for some, that meant only one thing. No, not fireworks, sweaty subway rides and family cookouts. It was time for the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island.
The contest has long been a holiday mainstay in New York, and its worldwide television exposure has made celebrities of its most famous champions. But this year’s event, which tests “competitive eaters” on how many hot dogs they can frantically scarf down in 10 minutes, crowned a new men’s champion for the first time in almost a generation and witnessed a women’s record.
Patrick Bertoletti, 26, from Chicago, snagged the men’s title — or, in the parlance of Coney Island, the Mustard Belt — by eating 58 hot dogs in 10 minutes, while Miki Sudo, 38, ate 51 hot dogs.
The former men’s champion, Joey Chestnut, 40, won the competition 16 times but was banned from entering after a falling out with the organizers. Bertoletti was the world’s ninth-ranked eater before the competition, according to Major League Eating, and he bested several competitors promoted by event organizers as Chestnut’s potential successors.
“Always a bridesmaid and never a bride,” Bertoletti said afterward. “But today I am getting married.”
He described winning as a life-changing event.
“With Joey not here I knew I had a shot,” he said, referring to Chestnut. “I was able to unlock something and I don’t know where it came from.”
Chestnut parted ways with the contest last month after he signed an endorsement deal with Impossible Foods, a rival to Nathan’s that makes vegan hot dogs.
But he loomed large over Thursday’s proceedings, in one case literally: A huge Pepsi ad bearing his image hung just one block from the contest location.
Many of the spectators also wore Chestnut memorabilia and chanted or held up signs pleading for his return. Mark Sterling, 35, did brisk business selling Chestnut bobblehead dolls to the crowd for $35.
“Why would you not want a bobblehead of a legend?” said Sterling, from the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. “Joey Chestnut not being here is like people saying Derek Jeter’s not at Yankee Stadium anymore — people still love him.”
Many viewers tuned in year after year just to watch Chestnut go through a pile of hot dogs like a wood chipper. News of his departure from the contest was met with the sort of public anguish one might expect for a major league baseball player, not a man who ate 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes last July 4.
At the women’s contest Thursday, Sudo easily won that title for the 10th time, besting a group of competitors, some of whom traveled to Coney Island from as far as Japan and South Korea.
She ate 51 hot dogs in 10 minutes, exceeding her 2023 total of 39.5 hot dogs. The runner-up, Mayoi Ebihara of Japan, ate 37 hot dogs.
As Sudo ate hot dogs two at a time, an ESPN announcer was inspired to opine, “Her style is like the prose of Eudora Welty,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning 20th century novelist not known to have enjoyed 51 hot dogs in one sitting.
After winning, Sudo thanked her family and the dental school in Tampa where she is studying to be a dental hygienist, and reflected on the pressures of being a mother, a student and world-famous hot dog eater.
“You feel like you’re juggling,” she said, “You try your best to balance everything.”
George Shea, the event’s larger-than-life emcee, described Sudo as a woman whose “soul shines like magnesium set afire against the dark mountain of night.”
Nonna Titulauri, 31, a banking intern who lives in the East Village, said she was thrilled to witness a women’s world record. But her friend Christina DeCarlo was less amused.
“It’s kinda gross,” said DeCarlo, 33, a project manager who lives in midtown.
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Former Hawaii congressman plays leading role in 80th anniversary of D-Day events
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – As we celebrate freedom and democracy, one former Hawaii politician has a job perpetuating patriotism and freedom around the world.
Former Hawaii Congressman Charles Djou played a leading role in last month’s 80th anniversary of D-Day events as secretary and chief executive of the American Battle Memorials Commission.
At the June 6 commemoration at Normandy Beach, Djou was the first speaker before President Emmanuel Macron, of France, and U.S. President Joe Biden — where he said Americans defend freedom in foreign lands, but then brings its soldiers home.
“All that America asks for in return for the sacrifice of our brave and our young and our finest is a few small plots of land to bury our dead,” he said.
Despite his time in Congress and in Afghanistan as an officer with the Army Reserve, Djou said the D-Day ceremonies were humbling.
He was surrounded by surviving veterans, high-ranking officials and politicians and even Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.
“I did not sit next to Tom Hanks. My wife and daughter sat next to Tom Hanks,” he said, laughing.
U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda said she was excited to see Djou representing Hawaii at the events.
“You had Secretary Austin, you had Secretary Blinken, and you had Secretary Djou,” she said. “I mean, you know, to see a local boy of such prominence.”
The American battle monuments commission oversees 31 memorials and cemeteries in 17 countries, including the Honolulu Memorial, which surrounds the statue of Lady Columbia in Punchbowl.
A former Republican who supported Biden over Trump, Djou was appointed to the job about two years ago. But he said why isn’t clear to him.
“The short answer is, I don’t know. I mean, all political points are a little bit of a black box, no matter where you get appointed,” he said.
No matter how it came about, he says the job suits him.
“I love telling the story of American history,” he said in an interview with Hawaii News Now. “I believe in our country, and I believe in American honor, and this agency has this just amazing job to present the history of America and American service. And so for me, it’s, it’s humbling and exceptionally rewarding.”
Because he actively campaigned against Trump four years ago, Djou doesn’t expect to keep the job long if the president isn’t re-elected. But for a 54-year-old who’s been in Congress, the Legislature and the City Council, he’s accustomed to changing careers.
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