In it’s 24th year, the 2013 iteration of Bay Area KidFest included one of SportStars patented “SportsJams,” our idea of an All-Sports-Fast-Action-Fest. Dubbed for KidFest, the Field of Dreams, it all took place on 110,000 square feet of sports field, jam packed with fourteen sports represented and wall-to-wall activities.... Read more

Big 5 Sporting Goods Camping ain’t easy, you know? I mean, what camp do you even pick? Oh, wait. That’s the easy part (you know, flip forward a couple pages and get to it). But you know you gotta have the right gear so you make an entrance. There’s no... Read more

  By MARK TENNIS | CalHiSports.com   Whether there is a regional bowl game, open divisions in every section, or just about any other tweak in format, the one factor for Northern California football that may never change is the dominance of De La Salle-Concord.   The Spartans, who have... Read more

EVERY DAY HEALTH: KENT MERCER     Jayne Appel, center for the San Antonio Silver Stars and graduate of Carondelet-Concord and Stanford, is the best passing post in the WNBA, and she dishes out great advice to high school athletes who would follow in her All-Star footsteps. For instance, staying in... Read more

State of Play By Mark Tennis    At this year’s CIF state basketball finals, we were asked at Cal-Hi Sports by Time Warner Cable to provide a series of Mt. Rushmore type selections for California’s best-ever boys players, girls players and coaches.    If you don’t know, Mt. Rushmore picks... Read more

SECOND TEAM   DESIRE FINNIE  BASICS: Berkeley, Sr., Guard  WHY SHE’S HERE: Finnie was pretty much all the experience the young Yellowjackets could bring to the table, but she led Berkeley by example into the NorCal finals. She averaged 17 points and 11 rebounds a game and will play for Pacific next year.... Read more

  By MARK CARNEY | Contributor   On Jan. 24, high school rugby programs from throughout the North State will get their competitive scrum on for the first time in 2015. That will be the opening day to the two-day Sacramento Kick-Off Tournament “” an event with a modest 30-year... Read more

   If a proposal passes next month, CIF bowls will no longer exclude any section champion. There will just be a lot more divisions and some of them just might not be that exciting.    Two of the best football teams this season that did not get chosen to play... Read more

  There will be plenty on the line when six teams take the field this week for the final three Sac-Joaquin Section football titles up for grabs. We dig into each matchup and give our predictions.   DIVISION I   MATCHUP: No. 1 FOLSOM (13-0) vs. No. 7 TRACY (10-3) ... Read more

ATHLETE SCHOOL SPORT COLLEGE Paris Austin Bishop O’Dowd-Oakland Boys BB Boise State Noah Blackwell Woodcreek-Roseville Boys BB Long Beach State Marquese Chriss Pleasant Grove-Elk Grove Boys BB Washington Chris Hansen Campolindo-Moraga Boys BB UC San Diego Sean Smith Campolindo-Moraga Boys BB Simpson         Erika Bean Bradshaw Christian-Sacramento... Read more

   Reviewing the first high school football event at Levi’s Stadium, and five suggested future matchups. State of Play: Mark Tennis    It wasn’t the Friday night lights of the Corral at Oakdale High, but for senior fullback Frankie Trent the Saturday afternoon sunshine he felt on Oct. 11 at Levi’s... Read more

   Last year’s cover story in SportStars by Ben Enos focused on football bragging rights being decided in games between teams from the Bay Area and the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section.    At the time Enos wrote the story, the Sac-Joaquin held a 114-90 edge in reported games from the 2009... Read more