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The Sports Animals fill in for Bobby today. For Fan Friday, we were joined by Coach Mike Trapasso and Coach Steven Bidne. Coach Trapasso, the men's baseball coach, gives us the updates on spring ball and how the five round MLB draft affected recruitment for the Rainbow Warriors. Then Coach Bidne, coach for Wahine Golf, updated us on the state of the team, and some interesting developments on UH campus for the golf programs.

With Chris and Gary moonlighting as the morning show hosts this week, Josh fills in. After a historic day in sports on Wednesday, Josh talks the NBA Bubble Life with Bleacher Report's Sean Highkin. Some college football will be played this weekend and Russ Mitchell, lead SEC Columnist from collegefootballnews.com, comes on the show. We've reached the second half of the shortened Major League Baseball season and Scott Ostler, from the San Francisco Chronicle, joins Josh to talk Giants and the NL West

Honolulu mayoral candidate Keith Amemiya, the former executive director of the Hawaii High School Athletic Association, recounts the path that led him into the political realm for the first time at age 54. After surviving a free-for-all of a primary, he's into a head-to-head battle with another veteran of local sports, Rick Blangiardi, for the general election Nov. 3. There is no shortage of crises to address for the winner, so why does Amemiya want to do it?

The Sports Animals fill in the morning as they talk about the postponement of games all across sports and talk with Kristian Winfield from the New York Daily News about the state of the NBA. Also, Emma Span from the Athletic talks about the state of the MLB and Brandon Brown from SI Now talks college football and the Big Ten Conference.

Josh Pacheco fills in for the animals and comes on after the NBA decided to postpone their games on this day when the Milwaukee Bucks decided to boycott the game. Josh talks about the impact this may have on the season as well as updates as to what is going on throughout the afternoon of news. And Gerald Brown from Sirius XM NBA Radio gives us insight and more details on the breaking news.

'Iolani School alum and General Manger for the Toronto Raptors joins The Sports Animals to talk about the Raptors' success after losing key players and possible boycott of Game 1 in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.

The Sports Animals fill in this morning. Rick "Doc" Walker, a Washington Football Team sideline reporter and a part of The Team 980, talks the breaking controversy coming out of DC about Dan Snyder. Rachael Van Oraje, co-host of The Houston Show on ESPN 975, talks Houston Rockets news as well as other rumors out of the Houston area. Bobby Webster, former Iolani basketball player and general manager of the Toronto Raptors, comes in to talk Toronto basketball and the fears of a boycott on Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals.

Josh Pacheco checks in for the power hour after the game five domination of the Mavericks by the Clippers. In one hour, Josh goes through the headlines, including what the Raptors were threatening to do before their series with Boston unless change was made.

On Point with Artie Wilson August 21, 2020 by ESPN Honolulu

Dave Kawada fills in for the afternoon show and talks about the NBA playoffs with Derek Lowe, then gets into the NFL and former Pearl City High School and Ole Miss Rebels quarterback Jordan Ta'amu joins the show. And then Sam Spangler joins Dave to talk about the MLB and how the media is handling things during the Covid-19 pandemic.