Besides sunblock, the game’s best golfers will need their umbrellas, towels and rain gear, to combat the frequent showers expected for Friday’s first round of the 2014 Hyundai Tournament of Champions.

Another high-surf advisory remains in effect from 6 a.m. this morning to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 25. Surf will rise today, remain elevated tonight into Christmas and projected to peak Thursday, with wave heights on the north shore between 15 to 20 feet.

Maui’s Kurt Suzuki will be taking his baseball skills to Minnesota.

Christmas came early for Oregon State’s Mana Rosa and four of his teammates who call Hawaii home.

The first two and a half innings of the World Series Game 6 were all about blown chances. Both teams were leaving runners on base early on, but Maui-born Shane Victorino changed all of that with one swing of the bat in the bottom of third.

The 2013 World Series will have local flavor Shane Victorino when it starts today with St. Louis at Boston for Game 1, beginning at 2:30 p.m. (Hawaii Standard Time) on FOX television.

The National Weather Service has issued a high-surf advisory for the south facing shores of Maui, in effect from midnight tonight until 6 a.m. Thursday, June. 6.

A super late season northwest swell is building and is predicted to reach the 5-9 ft range at its peak. Looks like this winter doesn’t want to end.

The months have turned into weeks and now the dream of winning the Maui Interscholastic League’s first state track and field championship in the girls division is 28 days away.

Last weekends gigantic WNW did not quite materialize here on Maui due to some outer island blockage. This is the curse of having these other islands surrounding Maui, they block a lot of the energy from south and west swells.