There is one less excuse to get out and hit the practice field.

It’s one of the worst sounds an athlete can hear.

The mid-year open-ocean swim season is officially a wash on the Big Island, and another fishing tournament has been lost as well because of the coronavirus.

After a one-year test run at Division I, Honokaa High football is moving back “where we belong,” athletic director Keith Tolentino said. And for the first time in a decade, BIIF volleyball teams will stay on their side, East or West, during the regular season.

Like a lot of Hilo kids, Josh Breitbarth played baseball growing up and dreamed about playing in college, where he learned the tools to deal with mental health.

Caneel “Booboo” Corpuz is going from one powerhouse to another and will find herself surrounded by familiar faces.

Keeli-Jade Smith and Tayvia Cabatbat will be together for at least another two years at Peninsula College in Port Angeles, Wash.

If it’s opened, they will come.

Amid the day-to-day grind that can make any job seem like a chore, there are many welcome respites that come with this one.

Major League Baseball teams have found hidden diamonds all over the place such as under haystacks and remote places like Hilo and Panama.

Tyler Yates remembers himself as a pitcher who picked up a ball and just threw during his time at UH-Hilo, where he sharpened his rough edges enough to chase his dream of making it to the major leagues.

Ocean Gabonia, a 2019 Hilo High graduate, signed a free agent contract Sunday with the New York Yankees, according to a Facebook post by his father, Ronald Gabonia.

For UH-Hilo men’s basketball players Damani Whitlock and Jordan Graves, aloha means acceptance.

Editor’s note: Kadara Marshall was a three-sport athlete at Waiakea who was the sole black participant on many of the teams she played on growing up. She was inspired by the death of George Floyd and the protests that followed to speak up about the Black Lives Matter movement.

It took a while, a little longer than he wanted, but Kalai Rosario was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the fifth and final round of the Major League Baseball draft on Thursday, making eight straight years a player with Hilo ties has been selected.

Thanks to a 14-day quarantine for travelers from out of state that now extends to July 31, UH-Hilo coaches may not be all that close to figuring out the “when” and “what” of their seasons.