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Weeks like this — and those leading up to a competitive return to the Lotte Championship at the Kapolei Golf Course next month — are ones that Michelle Wie West thought she would never have again on a golf course.

Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s 23rd birthday came three weeks earlier, but it sure looks like the presents started to pile up on Friday.

With the comings and goings — mostly goings — in the University of Hawaii men’s basketball program lately, some people would have you believe the NCAA’s transfer portal is the devil’s own doing.

In coming weeks, COVID-19 counts permitting, sports competition will resume at public high schools on Oahu and Hawaii island after more than a year’s break, underwritten by a remarkable ground swell of community support.

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Mid-Pacific Institute, a founding member of Pac-Five high school sports, will not participate in the consortium’s football program for the first time in nearly a half-century.

When Chad Haaheo Rowan left Waimanalo as a raw 19-year-old to enter the world of sumo in 1988, his stablemaster Jesse Kuhaulua sought a ring name that would match high hopes and inspire greatness.

TOKYO >> As the Sumida River flows through central Tokyo during his morning embankment walks, so, too, do the vivid memories of a groundbreaking career in sumo for Jesse Kuhaulua these days.