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Former University of Hawai'i standout and Triple-A pro baseball pitcher Matt Apana has been named head coach at Roosevelt High School, his alma mater.

Vindication. Satisfaction. Domination. After finally earning a win against the Americans on U.S. soil, Mexico's players used all of those words yesterday to describe the 5-0 romp that gave them their fifth Gold Cup championship at East Rutherford, N.J.

Lance Armstrong's kids were dressed in yellow. He was not. When the seven-time Tour de France champion returned to the Tour podium yesterday, his family was there. His fans were there. And so was rival and teammate Alberto Contador —

Jim Rice's icy glare melted into a wide smile. Brash, flamboyant Rickey Henderson was humbled by it all.

Ekolu Kalama turned a long surf session into an emotional victory yesterday.

Best friends Rachel Ross and Katherine Nichols train together, compete alongside each other, fill in each other's sentences, and have even shared wins together.

Kai Barger of Maui won the Nike 6.0 Pro Junior surfing contest yesterday at Huntington Beach, Calif. The final day of the contest was run in 2- to 4-foot waves. Thousands of spectators lined the beach to watch the the

Omar Dunlap has been hired as operations manager of the Transaction Processing Group at Bank of Hawaii. His duties include overseeing the processing of customer transactions, which provides services for branches in Hawai'i and the West Pacific.

Central Maui coach Glenn Yonashiro got doused with water and ice by his players yesterday after his team won the Little League Majors (ages 11-12) State Tournament.

As a 490-room tower opens at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino just east of the Las Vegas Strip this week, hotel operators citywide are struggling to fill existing rooms and staggering at the prospect of 10,000 more coming online

Hawai'i's Tadd Fujikawa faltered on the back nine and finished with an even-par 71 yesterday to tie for 15th place, seven strokes behind winner Rich Barcelo in the Nationwide Tour's Cox Classic at Omaha, Neb.

Restaurateur Wes Zane wants to give one customer $5,000 as part of a promotion aimed at increasing business at his Formaggio Wine Bar & Grill.

On a wall above his desk in the University of Hawai'i athletic department, where no one entering his office could miss it, athletic director Stan Sheriff hung a watercolor painting of the University of Northern Iowa's UNI-Dome.

Whenever someone has the inkling to make a career change or is kicking around a new idea, I tell them about the Sky Earth Theory. It goes like this: Blue-sky it, then engineer it back to Earth.

A rare fall off his paddleboard yesterday was hardly enough to knock Australia's Jamie Mitchell off the top of the paddleboard world. Mitchell won the Rainbow Sandals Moloka'i to O'ahu Paddleboard Race for the eighth consecutive year.

Small businesses in economically depressed areas and emerging industries will get preferential treatment for state contracts under a recently adopted set of procurement rules.

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