SportStars joins with the Sacramento River Cats to honor the Sac-Joaquin sections best athletes of 2015-2016. Read more

HAVE BALL, WILL TRAVEL: If your neighborhood doesn’t have an oversized youth sports facility, it’s falling behind the times. Welcome to SportsPlex Nation! Outside it’s an unseasonably warm January weekday afternoon in Walnut Creek. But Mike Samuels is inside. And happy to be there. Samuels is showing off the brand... Read more

by CRISTINA ZANARINI | Liberty-Brentwood Wrestling/Football Parent Wrestling has been a part of our life for 11 years and football for 10. I am the proverbial “Sports Mom.” All four of my boys wrestle and have earned their varsity letter since their freshman year. They started playing football just one... Read more

June and July brought no rest for the wrestlers of Concord’s Community Youth Center When it comes to wins and losses, Mark Halvorson has done enough this year to justify taking an entire summer off. When he piloted his De La Salle High wrestling team to both a North Coast... Read more

Granada High is home to two of the top junior freestylers in the country Read more

After being edged for a league title, Del Oro wrestling doubled down on an SJS Masters title — and won.  Read more

Liberty senior Jesse Gregerson headlines a Lions roster that could make noise at NCS Read more

Woodcreek’s Dominic Balmer leads a strong class of SJS heavyweights in 2015 Read more

Why is soccer a winter sport? We were practicing in December when it rained all the time, and it was miserable. It’s been nice lately, but it could start pouring again any day. Some schools play in the fall, and I think some play in the spring, but why do... Read more

   As it’s our final issue of 2014, we feel the need to reflect. This is truly an original idea. We’re quite certain we’re the only publication that indulges in year-end lists to commemorate all the good things of the previous 12 months. We’re not? Well, good luck finding a... Read more

One year after a surprising NCS-championship season, Dougherty Valley girls golf is set up to play favorite. Read more

We’ve ramped up our annual Camps & Clinics guide, and it has us excited for so much more.     Sometimes everything falls into place. The very week that the days grew longer, and the sunshine and 75-degree weather arrived, we found ourselves compiling our biggest Camps & Clinics Special Edition... Read more