Ken Niumatalolo / Bess / Bain

Dave Reardon writes a Press Box column about former UH QB and current Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo.

Prior to the ascent of Niumatalolo, a full-blooded Samoan from Laie, you could count the Polynesian college football head coaches on Edward Scissorhands' fingers.

It's the first battle won in a war similar to the one African-American coaches continue to fight. Apparently minorities are good enough to star on the playing field and be assistants. But when the head coaching positions open up, they are rarely in the mix.

"I don't feel pressure because of it, but I think about it. After all the e-mails and phone calls I got I thought about it a lot," said Niumatalolo, after a talk at the Honolulu Quarterback Club yesterday. "Dignitaries from Samoa contacted me. It's a milestone for Polynesians.

Davone Bess gets a brief but positive mention in this Sun Sentinel article about the young Miami Dolphins receivers.

Of the four undrafted rookie receivers — Jayson Foster, Davone Bess, Selwyn Lymon and Justin Wynn — Bess, barely 5-10, has clearly stood out.

"I see improvement," Sparano said. "There is a lot of competition at the position right now. As far as where anybody is, any of those things, we really haven't put our finger on that yet, but we're looking at all these guys right now.

"What I like is we have some big players at the position. We have some smaller guys that can really run. We are starting to find some roles in maybe our half-personnel stuff when you are getting three wide receivers out there. Some things are starting to take shape as we get on with this."

And Rotoworld.com rates Aaron Bain as their 56th rated fantasy college football wide receiver for the 2008 season, for all you fantasy players out there.