Pencil this in: Sunday is Dad's Day. And although it's trumped by the more ardently celebrated Mother's Day, there's no reason Father's Day shouldn't get its due. Sure, Moms get points for the carrying, labor and delivery part, but dads do stuff too. This one's for them. And all the stuff they do.

We say let the guys in your life have Sunday. This year, don't buy the aloha shirt or the tie. Instead, let him revel in his guy-ness while you and the family tag along and enjoy his escape into the man-iverse.

"Pirates vs Ninjas Dodgeball." What else is there to say? A Nintendo Wii game that pits pirates against ninjas in a swift game of dodgeball?

That's a Dad's Day well spent. The game was released last month and is available at Gamestop and Best Buy for $29.99.

LET HIM EAT LIKE A MAN

Hold the clogged-arteries-are-dangerous talk for a day, and let him eat awesomely bad food until he's full.

BRENT'S RESTAURANT AND DELI IN KAILUA

There's only one place on the island to find two-fisted deli sandwiches that truly resemble the kind you find in New York City.

At Brent's Restaurant and Deli in Kailua (262-8588), the sandwiches are enormous, and packed full of meat.

Try the Jonah's Belt Buster, a triple-decker sandwich piled high (some might say too high, but what do they know?) with corned beef, brisket, swiss cheese, tomato and Russian dressing ($11.50).

THE COUNTER

For burgers that can't be contained by their buns (and what guy doesn't like that?), head to gourmet burger joint The Counter at Kahala Mall (739-5100).

The grilled patties come in three sizes, with the 1-pound size the most manly of them all.

Pick from a long list of add-ons (like bacon, jalapenos, guacamole, french-fried onions, ham) and make the already massive burger a ridiculously awesome show of what you can do when there are no boundaries.

The Counter is always busy, and waiting two hours for a table can take the fun out of it. We suggest going between peak dining times, or getting the food to go.

KANPAI BAR & GRILL

Besides being a sports bar, which makes it a shoo-in, Kanpai Bar & Grill (593-9202) on Ward Avenue serves up some serious grinds.

You know you're in a guys' hangout when the daily special is the Three Little Pigs — a sandwich of roast pork, bacon and ham, topped with a fried egg.

Also a must-try: Kanpai's signature short rib loco moco — a gravy-smothered, meat-heavy bowl of stick-to-his-ribs food.

BUFFALO BOYS HOAGIES

Get a mountain (by a mountain, we mean 50) of real buffalo-style chicken wings at Buffalo Boys Hoagies (983-3871, 2671 S. King St., near the University Avenue intersection).

Get 'em extra hot, and don't stop until your fingers are stained Frank's Hot Sauce orange.

GIOVANNI PASTRAMI

A sports bar that serves breakfast is a great thing. Giovanni Pastrami (923-2100) in Waikiki is flat-screen central, plus it serves up really big breakfasts. Watch Tiger Woods do his thing at the U.S. Open on Sunday over a giant plate of buttermilk pancakes.

IN THE KNOW

If his idea of playing is tooling around on the Web, keeping up with sports, ESPN Insider is the gift that keeps on giving.

Buy a one- or two-year subscription for just a few dollars a month ($3.33 a month for a year membership, $2.50 a month for a two-year deal), and he'll get online access to all kinds of info that'll help him stay ahead of the game.

He'll get sports and fantasy analysis by the experts, extensive draft coverage, breaking news and guy-style gossip — the latest sports rumors fresh from the ESPN rumor mill.

Plus, the online subscription comes with a subscription to ESPN magazine, delivered every two weeks.

(Month-to-month, the subscription rate is $6.95. The one- and two-year subscriptions must be paid all at once).

LET HIM VEG OUT

Relinquish the remote control, and don't interrupt him unless you're asking if he wants more nachos and beer.

GUY'S CHOICE AWARDS 2009

Throw discriminating taste in television to the wind and let him go testosterone crazy with Spike TV's annual awards show (7 p.m., digital channel 559) that honors "the sexiest women and the coolest guys of the past year." (Ladies, that's your cue to leave the room.)

TRANSFORMERS: COMPLETE FIRST SEASON

Yes, he's been alive long enough to see his cartoon favorites become classics. Break it to him gently, and then help him get over the shock by letting him overdose on the "Transformers."

The first season was released on DVD this week, and it's available at Costco for $17.99.

GOLF U.S. OPEN

The final round of the U.S. Open championships airs Sunday (8 a.m., channel 8). Trust us, this is the biggie for golf this year.

Last year, Tiger Woods outlasted Rocco Mediate in one of the most memorable majors ever. Woods, limping on one leg with torn knee ligaments that would keep him out the rest of last season, edged Mediate on the first hole of sudden death after a 18-hole playoff.

It was an amazing duel, and both golfers are back in this year's field.

More drama: The Open is at Bethpage State Parks' Black Course, where Woods won the U.S. Open in 2002.

How can Dad miss that?

SOMALI PIRATE TAKE-DOWN

You know he loves a good pirate story. But a true pirate story?

You can thank the Somalis for that.

The Discovery Channel's documentary about the Somalian pirate hostage-taking debacle airs Sunday (4 p.m, repeats at 7 p.m., digital channel 1333).

IN THEATERS: LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY

Buy him a hot dog and a huge bucket of popcorn with a few extra squirts of that yellow butter stuff and watch him lose himself laughing at the hilarious bro comedy "The Hangover."

It's been the No. 1 movie in the country since it opened two weeks ago, and that many people can't be wrong.

Also out today is "Year One," the Jack Black-Michael Cera comedy about bumbling cavemen.

Enough said.

LET HIM DRINK BEER!

Leave the Bud in the icebox, and splurge on some real beer for Dad.

Oregon's Rogue brewery makes its Brutal Bitter dark and toasty, in the style of British bitters, but with American hops' signature caramel sweetness.

It's thick and creamy, but not heavy, with an alcohol content (6.5 percent) that's just a few notches above standard American draughts. Get it by the pint at the Liquor Collection in Ward Warehouse (524-8808, $7.25).

This Belgian golden ale has twice the alcohol content (11 percent) of Budweiser and 10 times the personality. Dig the toothless pirate on the label.

Buy it by the bottle (11.2 ounces) at the Liquor Collection for $6.50.

What could be more manly than a beer that's described by its makers as "hardcore." The India Pale Ale is brewed in Aberdeenshire on Scotland's rugged northeast coast. Grrrrr!

Buy it by the pint at the Liquor Collection.