Emily T Gail Talk Story

JR DeGroote, West Hawaii Today Sports Reporter and Janet Higa Miller, Co-Owner of Bikeworks take a look fun look back at the Waikoloa Lavaman, Cinco DeMayo Swim and Ironman 70.3 (Honu) on the Big Island of Hawaii. JR talks about the expanded coverage of stories and photos by JR and his associates at WHT... how they did it all by deadline which was exceptional and so appreciated by all.Janet explains the recent changes Ironman has announced for selecting Big Island and Hawaii residents for participation. . Janet talks about the Bikeworks staff involvement in all the events including Bike tech support and the community support for the events that bring participants from all over the world. I bought my first mountain bike from Grant Miller when he started Bikeworks 26 years ago with a kiosk and several mountain bikes. Now people from all over the world who come to the Big Island enjoy Bikeworks Beach & Sport, Queens Marketplace, Kona Beach & Sport on Alii Drive and Bikeworks Kona.The Emily T Gail Show i

My friend and fellow Detroiter Brad Snyder, Undercard Hand Combat Radio talks about the reopening of the legendary Emanuel Steward Kronk Gym and shares an interview he had recently on the Undercard with Emanuel Stewards daughter Silvia Steward Williams. Brad talks about how he enjoys being part of the promotion and education of MMA and Boxing. A proud board member of the Golden Gloves he talks about growing the sport and the Golden Gloves recent event they put on in Detroit at Bert's Warehouse. Brad and partner Rochelle Witek are proud to announce The Undercard with in-depth coverage of Pro Boxing and MMA with Feature Interviews, Major Event Coverage, Up and Coming Talent after 148 shows has a new home with IT in the D beginning June 16. Each week the Undercard has in dept coverage of MMA and Professional Boxing, Feature Interviews, Major Event Coverage, Up and Coming Talent, Training Tips, and more. Part of the team with Sue Mosey at Midtown Detroit, Brad and Rochelle have nice things to say about Detro

Kevin Ginosa, Head PGA Pro Kings' & Beach Course at Waikoloa Beach Resort has some overview of the resort activities and golf events including the popular Family Golf Days. After 3:30pm every day beginning in June the adults play 9 holes for $50 on the Waikoloa Kings' Course with their keiki who play for $25 and it includes complementary junior rentals. Kevin talks about the return of the Bob May Golf Academy July 1-31. Bob May, known for his dual with Tiger Woods at the 2000 PGA Championship, played 20 years on the PGA and teaches all levels of golfer including beginners. He also recaps the success of the University of Hawaii-Hilo golf team hosted Division I Intercollegiate Golf Tournament, an event Kevin played in when he was on the University of Hawaii-Hilo golf team which led him to his career in golf and association with Waikoloa Beach Resort.Kevin talks about Waikoloa Beach Resort long time support of Collegiate and Junior Golf and the HSJGA and the quality of play at the high school level when th

Melissa Braswell owner with her husband Jason of Big Island Running Company in Kona & Hilo shares stories about the many new and seasoned runners that enjoy the social aspect of their complimentary running programs in Kailua-Village. Anyone can participate on Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm and Saturday at 6:30am. The programs include a Couch to 5K and a Tuesday Trot in partnership with the Kailua Village Improvement District from Big Island Running Company at Coconut Grove Marketplace thru Kailua Village to Makeao Community Park and back for walkers and runners. Both lawyers for 6 years before moving to the Big Island and changing careers ago Melissa and Jason are both accomplished runners.Check out their facebook page and Bigislandrunningcompany.com which has online store, schedules for running programs in Hilo and Kona, upcoming events and good blog and newsletter entries -The Emily T Gail Shows are available at espnhawaii.com. There is a free iTunes podcast and Emily T Gail Talk Story on Facebook.

Guest line up Emily T Gail Show:Ellie Sumic, Bikeworks Beach & Sport talks about growing in North Kohala, seeing her first Ironman as a teenager in 1981. Now Ellie, who has completed an Ironman and two Na Wahine Outrigger Canoe races enjoys being able to give back while also competing. ((1981 was the first year Herb and I came from Detroit to participate. If I remember correctly 300+ men 20 women.)Ellie has info on the Cinco de Mayo Splash One Mile Swim this Saturday May 2, at Anaeho'omalu Bay at Waikoloa Beach Resort. It's the first swim race in the Triple Crown 2015 series that includes the Hapuna Roughwater Swim and the King's Swim. The Bikeworks Cinco de Mayo Swim is a benefit for the ALS TDI in honor of Karen O'Riordan Kelly and the Daniel Sayre Memorial Foundation. She has overview of the Ironman 70.3 Honu May 30 at Mauna Lani Resort.Ellie is also program director for LAVAKIDS and has an overview of the Running Clinics program. At about 30 minutes into the show, I get into a my walk around Kai

Dick Mudry, long time golf writer including 10 years as the copywriter for the Augusta National Masters Annual talks about the World Golf Hall of Fame in St. Augustine, Florida and the career of his friend David Graham. Graham, will be one of the 2015 class inducted in the World Golf Hall of Fame at the ceremonies in July at St. Andrews along with Mark O'Meara, Laura Davies, and famed architect A.W. Tillinghast. Dick shares the experience of touring the World Golf Hall of Fame in St. Augustine with David, who won the 1979 PGA Championship, 1981 US Open, had PGA Tour wins and host of around the world titles yet many said was overlooked as an inductee for too long. Dick is contributing to the davidgraphamgolfer.com/blog. Some very heartfelt stories of David's feelings since the announcement of him being an inductee. Always nice when it happens while the person is alive and can take a deep breath and take it all in and share it with his friends like he has with Dick who shares it on the blog. I like learning

Ellie Sumic, Bikeworks Beach & Sport has info on the Bikeworks sponsored Cinco de Mayo Splash Saturday May 2 at Anaeho'omalu Bay at Waikoloa Beach Resort. It's the first swim race in the Triple Crown 2015 series that includes the Hapuna Roughwater Swim and the King's Swim. The Bikeworks Cinco de Mayo Swim is a benefit for the ALS TDI in honor of Karen O'Rioroan Kelly and the Daniel Sayre Memorial Foundation, two organizations Grant & Janet Higa-Miller, owners of Bikeworks tirelessly support. Ellie is a program director for LavaKids, the youth branch of Lavaman and she talks story about the success of their running programs and the involvement of the Waveriders Triathlon Club.The Ironman 70.3 aka Honu is May 30 at Mauna Lani Resort and we talk about the weekend event.Ellie grew up in Hawi which is the turnaround for the Ironman World Championships. She saw her first Ironman in 1981 as a teenager which was the first year it was held on the Big Island. It was also my first year participating in Ironman

Winona Chen, Bike Works Beach & Sport recaps the events of Lavaman Waikoloa weekend where funds were raised for PATH (People's Advocacy Trails Hawaii)at the Bikeworks Sunset Run, the Lavakids was very successful and Winona won her age group at Lavaman.Winona, who has given back to those in the community who got her started in multi sport events by hosting some complimentary training events Winona and Bike Works that were very well attended. Winona comments on how fun it was to see some of the new athletes who participated in the clinics have fun in their first Lavaman.

Rich Bell, Bikeworks Beach and Sports, Queens Marketplace talks story about handful of things including the Lavaman Waikoloa weekend on the Big Island of Hawaii that includes the expo at Hilton Waikoloa Village, the Sunset 5k Run Friday March 27, Lavakids on Saturday March 28 and the Lavaman on Sunday March 29 at Waikoloa Beach Resort make for great family events. Spectators welcome for all the events. Worth listening to and get some ideas for making it a family weekend next year.Rich talks about the Bikeworks Bike Tech team that provides support for many events including Lavaman. He has information on the Hawaii Cycling Club activities including the very popular Century Ride Sunday each year to benefit North Hawaii Hospice. Rich has many nice tings to say about Hospice that was so helpful to he and his family while caring for his dad. Bikeworks Beach and Sports hosts Community Bike Rides every Tuesday ... meet at Bikeworks Queens Marketplace at 8:15am.

Carl "Gecko" Ko'omoa of teammangoraces.com (since 1992)on the Big Island of Hawaii talks about the success of the Team Mango races being attended by all levels of athletes and the community support he gets for Team Mango events including the Captain Cook Challenge held every year for many years. The 2015 Captain Cook Challenge is on Sunday April 26 is at Kealekekua Bay and is a 1 mile swim, 2 mile trail run, 28 mile bike followed by a 4 mile run.Sunday June 21, 2015 is the popular Kings' Trail Summer Solstice Run at OTEC. Check out the teammangoraces.com web site for all the unique multi sport events.Gecko talks about his love of ski racing, skate boarding and more that were his journey to his passion for multi sports. Fun stories. Visit Gecko at the Rudy Project store in Kailua-Kona Village across from the Seawall and Hulihee Palace. It's been a nice addition to the Kailua Village. The art work you see displayed is Carl "Gecko" Ko'omoa art ... another passion ...

This is a another "Say nice things about Detroit" segment from my espnhawaii.com Emily T Gail Show. Every show I share some thoughts and feelings about my hometown Detroit or talk story with a guest from Detroit.Julie Atkinson Fountain is a long time Detroiter. She was part of the team at Emily's Across the Street. She ran our plant store in the 70's and early 80's when people were just tuning into having indoor plants and here was a great downtown plant store as part of Emily's. It was unique in downtown and for sure our green thumb spilled out onto the sidewalks with our wonderful flower barrels among the benches and throngs of people who eventually discovered it was fun hanging out on the sidewalk eating a hot dog or licking an ice cream cone from Emily's ....I love bringing people who have a history in Detroit into the lives of those who have become part of the present good things going on in Detroit. Last summer Julie joined me in a talk story with Larry Austin, Team Leader, Whole Foods Detroit which is

Carol Connor, longtime resident of the Big Island has a longtime involvement with the Aloha Performing Arts Copy and Aloha Theatre starting with performing in Man of La Mancha in 1986 with Stan Michaels, directed by Luna Edwards. About that time Carol took her acting skills into radio broadcasting and was a popular morning personality for years. Of recent she has been handling much of the costuming for APAC. Her two children were also very involved with Childrens Theatre years ago. I'm grateful for having had the opportunity to play Nurse Rached in Cuckoo's Nest years ago. Gave me first hand experience how hard everyone works on these productions. Carol reflects on all the wonderful demanding productions Jerry Tracy and everyone involved continue to produce. Currently it's "Evita" which sold out for opening weekend recently and runs through March 15. “Even though it’s billed as a Broadway musical, it’s technically an opera because everything is sung,” says director Jerry Tracy. “Even the music directors bot

Winona Chen, was not an athlete in high school. She got into swimming, biking and running a few years ago and got involved working with Bikeworks. Been a win win for everyone as Bikeworks and Winona give back to the community. Her first triathlon was the Lavaman Waikoloa (1500 meter or .9 mile swim, 40k bike and 10k ru, here on the Big Island of Hawaii. Fast forward she completed her first Ironman this past year. Winona talks story about how and why she has grown to love participating and encouraging others to be active. She suggests joining the upcoming Run For Hops presented by Bikeworks, PATH and others on Saturday March 12 at BMW. Lavaman Waikoloa weekend March 27-29 is great example of what a great family activity triathlons can be with the Friday March 27 Sunset Run around Waikoloa Beach Resort, Lavakids at Anaeho'omalu Bay on Saturday March 28 and Sunday March 29 Lavaman. Winona touches on Peaman events, Team Mango, Hawaii Cycling Club, Olympic Tri...all the groups doing so much to offer events... m

Jim Thorpe, PGA Champions Tour player weighs in on The Golf Channel documentary he is a part of called "Uneven Fairways". It celebrates African-American contributions to golf and certainly documents some of the challenges they endured before being allowed on the PGA TOUR. Jim, who joined the PGA TOUR in 1972 comments on his fellow African-American players that paved the wave like Charlie Sifford, Lee Elder and Detroiter Calvin Peete, who was the most successful African American on the PGA Tour with 12 wins before Tiger emerged. Dave Marr III, NBC Golf joins us with comments about Jim Thorpe. Emily shares some feelings about Black History Month and has nice things to say about things going on in Detroit, specifically the City Bird, Run Detroit, Shinoloa Detroit efforts in Midtown. Emily talks about the Big Island of Hawaii sports and recreation and more in 2nd half of show. If you are coming to visit. Let me know.Thanks for listening.

Liz Ambrose talks about the fundraising campaign on Indiegogo for Boys to Men Mentoring which includes Boys To Men Hawaii. The group has been very successful to date ... with a group approach to mentoring rather than one on one. Tom Watson is a part of the Hualalai Ohana and always giving back. He is generously offering his time and will arrange to play golf with you for a specific donation to Boys to Men. Check out the packages Tom has put together with Michael Bonahan and everyone involved. Note: one of the opportunities is for this Saturday Feb. 7. liz@lizambrose to get more specific ... and she mentions it in our talk story.

Detroiter Jack Berry, member of the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame has covered sports for over five decades, including over 100 of golf’s major championships. Jack weighs in on the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai, the quality of play on the Champions Tour and many of the players he has covered for years. Jack's dad was the Traveling Secretary of Detroit Tigers in the 1940’s. We always end up talking baseball past and present. He shares MLB stories and has nice things to say about Detroit sports teams. Jack's run in the NY City Marathon, Emily Detroit Runs, hiked to Capt. Cook Monument, even had his own parking spot at Augusta National at the Masters as Recipient of the Lifetime Achivement Award!!!!Chick Kunitake, Waiaha River Coffee (family farm for 95+ years in Holualoa, Hawaii) talks about his enjoyable experiences as a spectator at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai. He reflects back on when in the 1950’s he fished and threw nets with his father before Four Seasons Resort Hualali w

Titan, at 13 1/2 years old was the youngest to make the cut at the Mauna Lani Resort Hawaii State Open. He tied for 34th. I've love watching Titan work at and see results in his game. He sure turned some heads with this performance. Thanks for listening to what Titan was feeling...and shared.I've known Titan since he was 9 years old...we were range buddies often at Waikoloa Kings' Course. Like all beginners Titan was frustrated that he couldn't outhit everyone. I would remind him how well he was doing and remind him to remember how much progress he was making. Something I have to remind myself of all the time in everything I'm doing. We would talk about how to work at it, have fun practicing. We laughed. We talked about all kinds of things. Titan, his dad Philip, and I have had many evenings around the chipping green talking life that day for each of us and practicing. We met up the other night at the Mauna Lani putting green. It was fun. Titan has a big ohana of people who have contributed in so many ways to

Jeff Manzo and Rich Bell, Bikeworks Beach & Sport provide a nice family event in Waikoloa Village with the First Friday Bike Rides every month. Coming up Feb. 6 at 7:30pm. Meet at Lava Java. It's a family ride and we want to encourage everyone to come enjoy Waikoloa Village. Rich, and Jeff and I all live in Waikoloa Village ... come join us.Jeff brings us up to date on the Lavaman at Waikoloa Beach Resort -weekend of March 27-29. Another family event with the Sunset Run on Friday evening March 27, Lava Kids on the Saturday and Lavaman on the Sunday. Reminder: Community Bike Rides Tuesday mornings from Bikeworks at Queens Markeplace at Waikoloa Beach Resort 8:30am.

Love talking with long time friend and fellow Detroiter Jack Berry. A Michigan Golf Hall of Fame member, in his five decades of sports reporting he covered 100+ of golf’s major championships. Jack weighs in on the Champions Tour, The Aloha Swing including the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai and his love of Hawaii. And growing up as the son of the Traveling Secretary of Detroit Tigers in the 1940’s, Jack shares a few stores from then and now. He has nice things to say about Detroit sports team and much more. Another long time friend, Chick Kunitake's (Waiaha River Coffee) and the Kunitake ohana have been on their land for 95+ years. Chicks talks about taking a break from farming to be a spectator at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai. He reflects back on when he was a keiki, he fished and threw nets to catch dinner with his father in the 1950’s before Four Seasons Resort Hualalai was created .Emily has lots of dis n dat about the Big Island including..- Ameri Ari Intercollegiate Go

Dick Mudry, is long time golf writer having covered the PGA, LPGA, and Champions Tour. He weighs in on the some of the current topics in the golf world ... Ryder Cub Captain selection, will Rory complete his Grand Slam at Masters and some inside triva about the Masters from the years Dick was the writer for their Masters Annual, a coffee table book which is published by Augusta National.Dick, based in Tampa, is a longtime fan of his hometown Pittsburgh Pirates. I recently saw an interview with Don Newcombe and mention of Don Newcombe started our baseball talk story this week about the Don Newcombe, Jackie Robinson era and more.Thanks for listening... aloha emily