Football

The sixth season of Cover2: Hawaii High School Football Weekly kicked off tonight on KHON2. An overtime segment featuring KHON2 sports director Rob DeMello, Spectrum OC commentator Jordan Helle and the Star-Advertiser’s and Hawaii Prep World’s Billy Hull previews the three big OIA-ILH matchups this weekend in the Open Division as No. 1 Saint Louis plays No. 2 Kahuku, No. 3 Mililani faces No. 5 Punahou and No. 4 Campbell tangles with No. 6 Kamehameha. You can watch that below. […]

Punahou defensive back Kaulana Makaula has been selected a Polynesian Bowl All-Star. The announcement came tonight on Cover2: Hawaii High School Football weekly on KHON2. Makaula, who is 6-foot-3 and 195 pounds, can play both defensive back and safety. He holds scholarship offers from Brigham Young and Hawaii. The third annual Polynesian Bowl high school football all-star game will be held Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019 at Aloha Stadium Over the next nine weeks, Hawaii Prep World and Cover2: Hawaii High […]

Jim Easterwood, who died of natural causes Sunday at age 81 in Nashville, was a sportswriter at the Star-Bulletin for 20 years. He covered just about everything on the Hawaii sports scene in the 1970s and ’80s, but his biggest impact was on high school athletics. The last seven of his years at the paper were my first seven, and he was my best friend at work despite our age difference and his status as a living legend and mine […]

Since the first Honolulu Star-Advertiser Football Top 10 poll in 2010, there have been 16 meetings between the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the state. No. 17 takes place Friday night at Aloha Stadium when No. 1 Saint Louis, ranked No. 10 in country by MaxPreps and No. 11 by USA Today, plays No. 2 Kahuku in a rematch of the last three state finals. The Crusaders and Red Raiders have split their last 14 meetings, but it’s […]

The third annual Polynesian Bowl high school football all-star game will be held Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019 at Aloha Stadium. Former Oregon Ducks head coach Mike Bellotti and former Washington Redskins head coach Jim Zorn will serve as head coaches. More than 80 players have already been selected to the game. Current Hawaii high school players who have been chosen are Kapolei OL Julius Buelow, Punahou K Tim Horn, OL Duke Clemens and LB Maninoa Tufono, Kahuku OL Enokk Vimahi, […]