Ferd Lewis
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Honolulu, HI, United States
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Ferd Lewis: This Ferd bids aloha after career of 50 years
When a CBS TV executive in New York phoned the sports department of the Honolulu Advertiser in the 1970s, he told a clerk, “I’m returning Ferd’s call.” → Read More
Ferd Lewis: Transfer portal can become UH’s friend
With the comings and goings — mostly goings — in the University of Hawaii men’s basketball program lately, some people would have you believe the NCAA’s transfer portal is the devil’s own doing. → Read More
Ferd Lewis: Tua Tagovailoa comes away winner after frenzy of trades
Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s 23rd birthday came three weeks earlier, but it sure looks like the presents started to pile up on Friday. → Read More
Ferd Lewis: Michelle Wie West returning to LPGA, with child in tow
Weeks like this — and those leading up to a competitive return to the Lotte Championship at the Kapolei Golf Course next month — are ones that Michelle Wie West thought she would never have again on a golf course. → Read More
LPGA says Lotte Championship tournament will move to Kapolei Golf Club
The Lotte Championship is moving to the Kapolei Golf Club, the LPGA confirmed today. → Read More
Mariota and Raiders agree to terms for 2021
Quarterback Marcus Mariota has agreed to a one-year deal to stay with the Las Vegas Raiders for 2021. → Read More
Ferd Lewis: Football lacks what madness of March offers
Leave it to Loyola of Chicago, Oral Roberts and the other disciples of anarchy to remind us what it is we’ve been missing in the College Football Playoff these past few years. → Read More
Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Marcus Mariota planning to re-sign with Vegas
The Las Vegas Raiders are expected to announce as soon as today that quarterback Marcus Mariota has signed a one-year agreement that will keep him with the team for 2021. → Read More
Ferd Lewis: University of Hawaii seeks more say in managing new stadium
If the bronze bust of the late Gov. John A. Burns fronting the main entrance to Aloha Stadium could talk, you wonder what the patriarch of the place might say today. → Read More
Ferd Lewis: Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Marcus Mariota mulling career decision
Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Marcus Mariota gets to do something fairly rare where he lives — he has an opportunity to bet millions on himself. → Read More
Big West open to return of fans
The Big West Board of Directors said today it will permit conference members, including the University of Hawaii, “institutional discretion” in whether to bring back fans to spring sports events. → Read More
Aloha Stadium won’t be torn down just yet
Even with University of Hawaii football no longer in the picture for stadium use in 2021, the New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District will wait until sometime in 2022 before it begins tearing down the current facility, a NASED official said. → Read More
University of Hawaii uncertain about its participation in video game
The University of Hawaii said it hasn’t decided whether it will take part in EA Sports’ relaunching of its popular college football video game. → Read More
LPGA Lotte Championship moves to Kapolei from Ko Olina
The LPGA’s Lotte Championship will have a new host course in Hawaii for the time in its nine-year history. → Read More
Ferd Lewis: 2017 study on UH lower campus shows insight
More than four years ago the University of Hawaii athletic department commissioned a “what if” architectural study and master plan for its lower campus area to glimpse what the future might hold as its part of a broader, school-wide 2050 effort. → Read More
Rally sport group seeks to run event in Aloha Stadium lot
The Hawaii Rally Sport Association is proposing to bring car and truck racing to Aloha Stadium this summer with its Auto X series. → Read More
Maui not suitable for Warriors football games, UH says
The University of Hawaii notified Maui Mayor Mike Victorino on Thursday that War Memorial Stadium would not be a suitable venue for its football season, effectively confirming the on-campus Clarence T.C. Ching Athletic Complex as UH’s only path for home games with the hope for fans in 2021. → Read More
UH athletics could net $3.1M playing on campus in 2021
The University of Hawaii estimates it could net $3.1 million for the athletic department budget if the Rainbow Warriors football team plays to the projected 10,000-seat capacity for its six home games on campus this season. → Read More
Ferd Lewis: University of Hawaii football hoping for improved scheduling
There is a definite pecking order to college football, and some of it extends to the announcing of schedules, which is why the Southeastern Conference unveils its slate in January and the Mountain West Conference comes out with its … → Read More
Ferd Lewis: Hilo hoops has become team worth working for
Who knew that one of the most sought-after positions in the University of Hawaii Hilo athletic department these days would be volunteer floor wiper at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium? → Read More