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As Jim Easterwood proclaimed in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1969 was the year of the Ram. Easterwood’s proclamation came after talking to OIA track and field coaches, with Castle’s Don Mahi claiming that the Rams had too many horses to be challenged by anyone other than possibly Kailua. The Rams were led that year by sprinters John Brown, who ran a 9.9 in Texas, and Bernard Rembert (10.1) with Allan Overby and Jerris White providing depth. Radford had already won the […]

With prep sports suspended due to the coronavirus, Hawaii Prep World will look back on a random day in history. Today, we check out what the landscape looked like 100 years ago. Hawaii was battling an influenza epidemic in 1920, but the Honolulu Advertiser happily reported that although 25 new cases of the flu were reported on that day, nobody died. There had been 3,492 cases reported since the beginning of the year and 192 of them died in the […]

Here we are without high school sports, so what’s a sportswriter to do? Think. Jot. Clear the desk of stuff that was on the list of things to do before the seriousness of COVID-19 put a halt to sports everywhere. So, here’s a fist bump to everybody in our sports community along with hopes and prayers that this crisis lasts a few weeks rather than a few months, or a few months rather than a year or more. And here […]