Tomey Tomey

Sounds like it's Dick Tomey Week. That is, until Saturday night. Until then, here's a nice article on Tomey from Laurence Miedema of the San Jose Mercury News, with an excerpt about his time in Hawaii:

But Tomey's message resonated with a community that puts a huge emphasis on family, loyalty and teamwork.

``Dick is an example of somebody who wasn't born in Hawaii but really understands what `Aloha' means,'' said Artie Wilson, a former Hawaii basketball player and current television analyst. ``It's a lifestyle, it's a way you treat people, it's a feeling. It's all of the things that Dick has in him.''

Most important, it wasn't just talk. Many nights, Tomey would invite the entire team to his house for dinner.

``It's customary over there to take your shoes off before you go into somebody's house, so I remember the whole front yard had shoes in it,'' Tomey's son, Rich, recalled. ``It was pretty funny afterward, watching people try to find their shoes out of the pile of 200 out there.''

Or maybe it's Colt Brennan Week, as Colt is featured in another Heisman pundit poll.

8. Colt Brennan, QB, Hawaii (10). Ian Johnson and Colt McCoy both went down with injuries, so the gunslinger with the huge numbers climbs the charts. He threw for 406 with three scores and also ran for 60 yards and a touchdown his last time out, so the gaudy stats just keep piling up. And the real showcase games have yet to come.

Stephen Tsai mentions in The Warrior Beat blog that there's also a full page article on Colt in this week's issue of Sports Illustrated. Now I gotta go buy me a copy.