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Lahainaluna High School football coaches Dean Rickard (co-head coach), Garret Tihada (associate head coach) and Bobby Watson (former head coach) will join players Morgan “Bula” Montgomery, Teva Loft, Kaulana Tihada and Kuola Watson as honorary coin toss captains at Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas on Sunday, Feb. 11. 

The $5-million fee HTA budgeted to host the 2017 Pro Bowl will be used to support sports competitions, preserve Hawaiian culture, and bolster tourism marketing.

Former Baldwin High School linebacker John Lotulelei, who was claimed off waivers by Jacksonville on Thursday, will be wearing No. 53 on Sunday when the Jaguars visit St. Louis.

Maui’s John Lotulelei’s dream of playing in the National Football League became a reality Saturday when the linebacker was one of eight rookies named to the Seattle Seahawks’ 53-player roster.

Seattle Seahawks linebacker John Lotulelei was awarded a $25,000 signing bonus Tuesday, the largest payout to an undrafted rookie free-agent in the NFL this year.

The Hawai‘i Tourism Authority in partnership with the National Football League today announced the 49 business and community members of the Pro Bowl Committee 2013.

Hawaii Tourism Authority figures indicate that the NFL Pro Bowl held on January 29 generated $25.3 million statewide, and showed an increase in visitors to neighbor islands.

Hawaiian Airlines announced that it will continue to provide the Oakland Raiders and Seattle Seahawks football teams with charter flights and a special in-flight service for road games this NFL season.

Pro Bowl center Olin Kreutz has parted ways with the Chicago Bears and could be headed to the New Orleans Saints.

Three former University of Hawaii football players received – and gladly accepted — invitations to take part in NFL training camps as undrafted free agents.

Former Baldwin standout JoJo Dickson of Idaho has signed as an undrafted free agent with the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL.

South Maui Sharks and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Maui are among twenty-six Hawaiian non-profit organizations who will benefit from $100,000 as part of the NFL Charities Pro Bowl Grant Program, the NFL announced Thursday.

The Hawai‘i Tourism Authority (HTA), announced the return of the Hawaii Pro Bowl.  The game is confirmed for January 30th at Aloha Stadium, the Sunday prior to the Super Bowl.  The Hawaii tourism authority will invest $4 million per game for 2011 and 2012.  In 2009 the event accounted for $28.6 million in visitor spending, […]

Lahainaluna needed overtime to beat Maui High.

The New York Jets are benefiting from playing against teams that already have qualified for the NFL playoffs.

Once described as America’s pastime, baseball has been surpassed by the NFL and is being overtaken by the NBA.

NFL teams with 0-3 records have a 2 percent chance of reaching playoffs.

By Fred Guzman MauiNow.com He’s Hamlet in shoulder pads.  We are alluding, of course, to the Shakesperean indecisiveness of Brett Farve.  Even his long-time worshippers – both fans and in the media – have wearied with Favre’s annual “to play, or not to play” soliloquy. Sharing the stage with Favre this time in this all-too-familiar […]

By nature, I don’t surprise easily.  But I was stunned to learn last night that the Dallas Cowboys had released wide receiver Terrell Owens, although there had been persistent rumors that he might be cut in order to improve morale in a sharply-divided locker room. Shocked, because TO, for all the controversy that he invariably […]

Reports of the Pro Bowl’s permanent departure from Hawaii were premature. The Hawaii Tourism Authority – under pressure from fans and politicians – apparently will reconsider and approve an offer to host the game in 2011 and 2012. The proposed deal would bring back the game for those two years, although it would be played […]