KEALAKEKUA — Konawaena football’s season begins today over on O‘ahu, and the eagerness and excitement to get back on the field is sky-high.

PARIS — They needed the Avengers.

SAINT-DENIS, France — Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is a privilege. A splurge. The immense entertainment from watching her underscores the infrequency of the pleasure.

PARIS — With so little time to prepare as a team ahead of the Olympics, U.S. coach Cheryl Reeve had always said she was going to look at each game as an opportunity to learn more about her players, her team and their chemistry.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Former Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh has been punished by the NCAA with a four-year show-cause order and a one-year suspension for violating head-coach responsibility obligations, “unethical conduct” and a failure to promote “an atmosphere of compliance” for his role in an investigation into impermissible recruiting in 2021 during a COVID-19 dead period.

KAILUA-KONA — The Department of Parks and Recreation’s Elderly Activities Division (EAD) kicked off the 48th Hawai‘i State Senior Softball Tournament on Kona on Tuesday, hosting 62 teams from around the state for the three-day tournament.

Cole Hocker of the United States scored one of the biggest upsets in Olympic running Tuesday night, outrunning Jakob Ingebrigtsen and outkicking Josh Kerr, and everyone else, down the stretch to win the men’s 1500-meter to turn what was supposed to be a two-man battle into the surprise of the Games.

PARIS — Most of the Olympic men’s basketball quarterfinals were stressful for the favorites, with the top seeds in the first three games falling behind by double digits and one (Canada) going down in an upset.

PARIS — Gymnastics saved the drama for the last day. Simone Biles failed to earn a gold medal, but her teammate Jordan Chiles earned a bronze after a judges inquiry into her difficulty score.

Another local squad made the Big Island proud over the weekend, as Hawaii Little League District 4’s team won the Minor League Baseball State Championship on Wednesday on O‘ahu.

NORMAN, Oklahoma – Hawai’i Hilo men’s golf was among nearly 250 collegiate golf teams to earn recognition by the Golf Coaches Association of America for achieving outstanding team academics for the 2023-24 school year.

SAINT-DENIS, France — Shamier Little was about 20 meters up the curve of the lavender track at Stade de France. Eager to get the baton for her second leg, she watched intently at Vernon Norwood heading towards her in Lane 6. At some point, she realized she was alone out there.

HILO — Summer vacation is nearing its end but the fun times continue as the Vulcans hosted keiki for the annual Coach Jimmy Yagi Vulcans Basketball camp last week at Pana’ewa Park Gym.

PARIS — Summer McIntosh showed the Paris Olympic pool the thrill of the new with a second gold medal for Canada on Thursday, but it was golden oldie Katie Ledecky standing alone at the end of day six as the most decorated female swimmer of all time.

LILLE, France — The United States continued their quest for a fifth successive gold medal with a 103-86 victory over South Sudan in men’s basketball, while Serbia dominated Puerto Rico in a 107-66 win in the second round of Group C matches on Wednesday.

PARIS — Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz stayed on collision course for a golden showdown at the Paris Olympics as they surged through to the quarter-finals on Wednesday.

PARIS — When two Ukrainian acrobats from the Cirque du Soleil raised their son in Las Vegas, little did they know he would one day win an Olympic medal for Canada.

If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.