Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Kahuku claims ’98 OIA football championship
[Story by Mike Foley, photo by Barry Markowitz, originally published in Kaleo, November 19, 1998] Kahuku’s D-men didn’t let pouring rain stop them from keeping Waianae scoreless during the OIA title match at Aloha Stadium Kahuku High School’s unstoppable, nationally-ranked varsity Red Raiders finished out a perfect 1998 12–0 football season during a downpour at […]
Turn off the spell checker
A friend emailed this message to me a couple of years ago and, in case you haven’t seen it, I thought I would pass it along: I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t […]
Guadalcanal: A veritable WWII ‘museum’
When my wife, Sally Ann, and I were on my East-West Center field trip in 1971, we stopped for a few days on the large, tropical island of Guadalcanal in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate (usually abbreviated BSIP; the island nation would not gain independence until 1978). The place was particularly fascinating to me because […]
Francisco, Kemoeatu head for Super Bowl
Congratulations to Arizona Cardinals safety, BYU and Kahuku High player Aaron Francisco who’s heading to the Super Bowl — as is Chris Kemoeatu for the Steelers. Hopefully, Koolauloa family, friends and fans will be reading and seeing more of them . . . but in the meantime, Aaron shared some of his early SB impressions […]