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Players: Aaron Brown and Darius Bright
Team: Hawaii – Football
Charges: Assault
Arrest Date: August 28, 2011

Police Report: Hawaii has suspended two starters for their opening game versus Colorado, outside linebacker Aaron Brown and wide receiver Darius Bright, for their invovlement in brawl at a Waikiki bar called Zanzabar Nightclub in the early hours of Sunday morning… both players were arrested on charges of misdemeanor assault and released after posting bond later that day.

In what has to be the craziest news of the day.

For some reason Hawaii is considering traveling almost 4000 miles in order to play a regular season football game in Japan. Japan! And while they have not picked an opponent for the Rainbows to face yet, after all they aren’t planning on holding the game until 2014 at the earliest… Hawaii’s athletic director has already met with the owners of the Osaka Dome, where the proposed game would take place. WTF! [via]

Michigan’s Denard Robinson wasn’t the only QB racking up video game numbers last season… in fact the man that lead the nation in total offense with 367.29 yards per game and total passing yards with 5,040 was none other than Hawaii’s Bryant Moniz, who now has this nifty ”Mighty Mo” video campaign that the school has put together to help build some buzz for an improbable 2011 Heisman run. [via]

The WAC just continues to get wacker and wacker. The WAC might have been able to fend off death once when Boise State, Fresno State, and Nevada announce they were leaving for the MWC…but now what are they going to do now that Hawaii has announced that they would be defecting to the MWC as well? Hawaii leaving would mean the WAC has lost its four top schools to the MWC in the past six month, leaving them with seven shitty teams.

Even with their two latest additions from the I-AA ranks, the WAC would now still need to add one more by 2012 to even qualify to be a I-A football conference.

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UPDATE:  A report says “it was mutually decided Masoli would not join the Warriors”.

Now here is a rumor that makes some sense. According to KHON-TV in Honolulu Jeremiah Masoli is interested in playing out his last year of eligibility at Hawaii. UH hasn’t made no comment on the matter, but they should be jumping for joy at the thought of landing him….the QB they have right now, sophomore Bryant Moniz, sucks! He almost threw as many interceptions as he did TD’s and isn’t half the QB Masoli is.

But if you’re a Hawaii fan don’t get your hopes up too high…Louisiana Tech, the only school that Masoli is known to have visited since his dismissal from Oregon is sure to be still in the mix. The good news is we should get a descision about where Masoli will be transferring to coming up here shortly, probably before Fall Camp opens up.

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UCLA out slugs Hawaii 5-2
You know you’re playing good when you out hit and out slug the best hitting team in the nation and that’s exactly what the Bruins did. UCLA had 10 hits by seven different players and they broke the school record for homeruns in a season (99) with three in this one, giving them a total of 100 on the year. The Bruins have gotten hot at the right team and are now only need one more win to make it to the championship series. The Rainbows will now play the winner of Washington-Arizona in an elimination game at 9:30pm ET today.

Tennessee slams Georgia 7-5
This game was dominated from start to finish by Tennessee. They scored the first seven runs of the game, thanks mainly to a grand slam by senior first baseman Erinn Webb in the third, before allowing UGA to finally get on the board in the bottom of the forth. But other than a little scare in the seventh, where UGA put up three runs, they were never in it. Georgia will now play the winner of the Florida/Missouri game at 7:30pm ET today.

And you know what…I’m starting to think we’re witnessing the next great college pitcher in Tennessee freshman Ivy Renfroe. In this one she allowed five runs on 10 hits, but got career high 10 strikeouts. So far in the tournament she’s pitched in every game and is 5-0 with a 1.21 ERA, has three complete game shutouts and 42 strikeouts in 34 innings of work, including wins at #2 Michigan and versus #3 Arizona and now #9 Georgia. Now that’s one badass stat line for a freshman that’s playing in her first College World Series.

Georgia roughs up Washington 6-3: UGA will face Tennessee tomorrow @ 9:30pm ET
There’s no other way to describe this one other than Lawrie got rocked. Washington jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first, but Lawrie would not be able to keep the lead. She began falling apart in the forth after a solo homerun by cather catcher Kristyn Sandberg got the Bulldogs on the board. UGA would go on to put up two more runs in the fifth, to tie the game at three…then with two out in the sixth they took the lead 6-3 on a three run two out homer by Megan Wiggins. Lawrie uncharacteristically allowed more runs and hits than she had strikeouts in this one, giving up six runs on 11 hits while only striking out five.

Tennessee skunks Arizona 9-0: Arizona will face Washington on Saturday @ 2:30pm ET
The umps have officially ruined the WCWS for me. I couldn’t even enjoy this game because of all the illegal pitches they were calling. Kenzie Fowler got more illegal pitches called on her this game than she had called on her all season. The umps weren’t calling them during the season, didn’t call them in the first round, barely any in the Super Regional, and then all of a sudden they call 100 on the first day of the World Series. It’s not fair and it’s bad for softball. I wish I could hear Mike Candrea’s post game press conference.

UCLA blasts Florida 16-3: UCLA will face Hawaii tomorrow @ 7:00pm ET
Luckily for Florida there is the mercy rule in place. The Bruins beat Florida like they stole something, hitting three homers and scoring nine runs in the in the sixth inning to put the Gators out of their misery. Andrea Harrison was the main one laying the wood, hitting two three run homers for the Bruins in the games. But the story in this wasn’t the Bruins bats or Florida’s errors, it was the six illegal pitches that were called. I mean really?!

Hawaii homers past Missouri 3-2: Missouri will face Florida Saturday @ 12:00pm ET
They did it again. The hero in this one was Traci Yoshikawa, who hit a two run homer in the top of the seventh to give Hawaii the 3-2 win. All three of Hawaii’s runs were scored on homeruns, the first coming on a solo shot from Alexandra Aguirre in the second, which extended their NCAA team homerun record to 156 on the season. It is just so hard to beat the Rainbows with them hitting 2 homeruns a game, to do it you have out hit them.