Football

There is a football officials shortage in Hawaii and citizens are coming to the rescue. According Oahu Football Officials Association recruiting chairman Jim Beavers, recent notices in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser have led to close to 20 new faces signing up. The officials shortage has had a direct effect on the Oahu Interscholastic Association’s decision to schedule games from Wednesday through Saturday each week this fall instead of the regular Friday and Saturday slate. Some critics say this schedule is far […]

The 2017 Oahu Interscholastic Association football schedule that was circulated from the league to its coaches last week contained incorrect start times. The start times this fall for junior varsity games any day but Saturday will be 5 p.m., the same as last year, with varsity to follow at approximately 7:30 p.m. The schedule, which OIA officials say is not a final document and was published by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Hawaii Prep World, listed the start times as a […]

It was quite the eventful week at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island for the annual Hawaii Interscholastic Athletic Directors Association Conference. The big news came Friday when the OIA said it will not enter any teams in the Open Division of the state football tournament this year. That decision was met with plenty of blowblack, including from Star-Advertiser columnist Ferd Lewis, who wrote in Saturday’s newspaper, “what the Oahu Interscholastic Association did Friday was the bureaucratic version […]