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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Needs to Resonate With Pro Sports -- Now

By Kevin BlackistoneDec 23rd 2010 – 11:45AM

Four years into the Second World War, Lt. Carlton Skinner, the commander of the U.S. weather ship Sea Cloud in the North Atlantic, sent a memo up the Navy's chain of command. He requested that it allow him to start training black seamen, long relegated to menial tasks, for critical jobs reserved for white sailors. Skinner...

Hawaii Becomes Challenger in WAC

By Graham WatsonOct 19th 2010 – 8:34PM

It should have been 24-0. Hawaii had five drives in the first half against Colorado and four of those drives made it inside the red zone. The Warriors came away with a 10-0 halftime lead, but fumbled at the Colorado one-yard-line and missed a field goal after failing to get the ball into the end zone despite a...

Other Non-AQs Watch as Boise State Embarks on Historic Season

By Graham WatsonAug 29th 2010 – 9:22AM

Chris Petersen has gotten so used to reciting the company line that even he seems bored delivering it. In nearly every interview leading up to Boise State's 2010 season, Petersen, the Broncos' fifth-year coach, has been asked questions about his team, its historically high preseason ranking (third by AP, fifth by coaches)...

Pickin' on the Big Ten: Jim Tressel Needs Love

By Mark HastyDec 3rd 2009 – 8:50PM

Jim Tressel has never been proclaimed as Big Ten Coach of the Year. Perhaps that isn't such a big deal when you consider that both John L. Smith and Ron Zook have won that particular honor, but still, it surprises me that the man whose team has dominated the conference for the better part of a decade has never been...

Tim Tebow's Not Peyton Manning. Good.

By Brian GrummellAug 3rd 2009 – 9:40PM

Every week during college football's endless offseason, The FanHouse Walk will put last week's stories to bed and deliver the essentials to bridge that agonizing space between now and September.Championship! -- Texas Tech coach Mike Leach gets credit for taking on the NFL's accepted wisdom when it comes to quarterbacks,...

Greg McMackin News From the Web

  • 04/26/12 Hawaii won't release Mormon player to BYU Source: USA Today Perhaps college basketball was drawing too many transfer controversies because now we have one in college football.
  • 04/13/12 Former Hawaii football coach McMackin puts home on the... Source: Pacific Business News - Honolulu HI Greg McMackin , the former University of Hawaii head football coach and once the highest paid state employee with a $1.12 million annual salary, recently put his Hawaii Kai home up for sale, listing it at $1.88 million.
  • 04/12/12 Former UH coach McMackin puts house up for sale Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Honolulu HI Former University of Hawaii head football coach Greg McMackin's Mariners Cove home is listed for sale at $1.88 million.

Background on Greg McMackin

Greg McMackin (born April 24, 1945) is a retired American football coach and former player. He served as the head football coach at Oregon Institute of Technology from 1986 to 1989 and at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 2008 to 2011, compiling a career college football record of 53–39–1. Before coming to Hawaii as defensive coordinator in 2007, he previously served in the same capacity for the Seattle Seahawks, the Miami Hurricanes, and the Texas Tech Red Raiders.

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