Shaquille O'Neal and Joe Montana are scheduled to appear at the Official All Star Cafe Honolulu Sports and Music Festival Saturday from 4 to 9 p.m. in front of the Kalakaua Avenue cafe. Shaq, Montana at
All Star CafeOther sports, music and entertainment celebrities will be on hand for the event, which will include interactive activities such as the Velcro Obstacle Course, Slap Shot Hockey, a Bungee Run. along. There will be performances by top bands and food booths.
Admission is free except for food booths. Validated parking is available at the King Kalakaua Plaza and the surrounding Waikiki area.
Lakers center O'Neal and former 49ers quarterback Montana are All Star Cafe sports partners with Tiger Woods, Ken Griffey Jr., Andre Agassi, Wayne Gretzky and Monica Seles.
KOP ADVANCES IN MANOA CUP: Defending champion Brandan Kop scored an easy 7-and-6 victory over Mark Langley Jr. in the first round of the Manoa Cup yesterday at the Oahu Country Club.
Also winning first-round matches were Stan Souza, last year's runner-up; Dick Sieradzki, who won the tournament in 1990; Damien Jamila, Larry Stubblefield and Doug Williams, the low medalist in Monday's qualifying.
Souza ousted Hank Tominaga, 7 and 5; Sieradzki defeated Norman Ganin-Asao, 1 up; Jamila beat Mark Williams, 4 and 3; Stubblefield beat Roger Onuma, 5 and 3; and Williams got by Nathan Magno, 3 and 2.
Two rounds are scheduled today with the quarterfinals set for tomorrow. The 36-hole semifinals will be played Friday and the 36-hole final on Sunday.
PACIFIC CUP UP FOR GRABS: Medicine Man and Roxanne were closest to Hawaii at yesterday's reporting time for the West Marine Pacific Cup fleet but three other yachts were in the hunt for first-to-finish honors.
Merlin, Pywacket and Rage also were nearing the end of the 2,070-mile San Francisco-to-Kaneohe Bay race. The earliest finishers are expected tomorrow morning.
Water Pik held the Class A and overall corrected time lead.
RENEGADE FIRST TO FINISH: Renegade, a turbo Andrews 70 skippered by Dan Sinclair, was the first to finish the 2,308-mile Coopers & Lybrand Victoria-Maui International Yacht Race, arriving in Lahaina Monday evening with an elapsed time of 10 days, 13 hours, 50.2 seconds.
That was some 18 hours off the course record set by Roy Disney's Pyewacket in the 1996 race from the British Columbia, Canada, city to the islands.
JUDO JUNIOR NATIONALS: The 35th annual United States Judo Federation Junior National Championships will be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Blaisdell Arena. More than 825 athletes from the U.S., Canada and Japan will compete in Kata, team and individual events.
Admission is $15 for both days or $10 each day, with children under 6 admitted free.
BOBBY SOX PLAYOFFS: Hawaii Bobby Sox softball titles in four age groups will be on the line in state tournaments Saturday, Sunday and Monday at Mililani's Kipapa and Melemanu fields.
The winners of the 8-and-under, 10-and-under, 12-and-under and 14-and-under divisions will advance to the Nationals later this month at Buena Park, Calif.