Best friends, Ivan Rabb & Paris Austin close their Bishop O’Dowd careers in dramatic fashion Read more

   It’s just not fair. I go to Miramonte, and our girls won the NCS title and beat Bishop O’Dowd. But because O’Dowd lost, they got to play in Division III and won a state championship. We had to play in the Open Division and got beat in the NorCal... Read more

   With Asha Thomas sidelines for much of the season, the Dragons morphed into Aisia Robertson’s team. She was the senior leader and go-to star through the first two months, so it was no surprise — even with Thomas once again sharing the backcourt with her — the Kansas-bound guard... Read more

Best Friends and elite talents, Ivan Rabb and Paris Austin lead NorCal’s best team toward state glory. Read more

   Silva is the 6-foot, 168-pound do-it-all quarterback for a Lancers team which is not shy on putting up points. And it was never more obvious than Oct. 17 when Tennyson outlasted Castro Valley 85-77 in a record-breaking overtime shootout. In that game, Silva completed 15 of 19 passes for... Read more

   We’ve already reached November, which means two things: 1) We all have friends and family who are already Christmas shopping (and this annoys us), and 2) The 2014-15 school year has already reached its first championship season.     It’s true. The next six weeks should be quite eventful, taking... Read more

   Well, it happened. The calendar finally turned over to September, football is being played under brilliant sunsets and the fall season is officially upon us.     Not that we’re complaining.     We love finding fun summer stories to fill the gap between school years, but few things charge us... Read more

   Putting together retrospective issues like this are always a fun project. This is the second year we’ve done this, but the first time in which we’ve been able to make it its own special edition. Going through our photo archives from the past nine months obviously brought out a... Read more

First Pitch I Chace Bryson        Another state championship basketball season is in the books, and there was a lot to enjoy about the tournament.     And still some to grumble about.    We still feel there has to be some way to re-tool the Open Division in order to... Read more

   John put on his own personal shooting clinic, and he did on the biggest stage. The Cal Poly-bound swingman tied a CIF Division I State Championship record with six 3-pointers en route to a game-high 23-points as the Mustangs won their first state title. John hit his first five... Read more

   With the playoffs near and a title on the line, the McDonald’s All-American turned in her best scoring effort of the year. Moore’s season-high 38 points to go with 10 rebounds helped propel the Pride to a 76-57 win over rival St. Mary’s-Berkeley in the championship of the Tri-County... Read more

Current CIF Open Division seems to do more harm than good to NorCal basketball     I’m trying. I am.     Nearly a year ago, at the conclusion of the CIF State Basketball Championships, I wrote in this space that I may have been a little too harsh on the new... Read more