De La Salle High’s 3-Time Section Champion And 4-Time CIF State Qualifier Heads To Bakersfield One Last Time With A Golden Focus • No matter what happens at the California Interscholastic Federation State Wrestling Championships, Kyle Parco won’t have to wonder whether he could have done more to prepare for... Read more

It’s Our Annual Weight-By-Weight Breakdown Preview Of The CIF State Wrestling Championships. Who Is NorCal’s Best Hope? Who Could Bracket-bust? • Seeds schmeeds. No matter where wrestlers landed in the 14 40-man brackets at the CIF State Wrestling Championships, they have the scrambler’s chance to victory. It’s what makes the... Read more

Ok, if any of you are fans of Top Gear (BBC) or Grand Tour (Amazon), you’ll “get” that headline. Our man, Al Fontes met up with his main man, Ali Afshar, who wrestled for Casa Grande High School in NCS some years back. Afshar’s now, among other things car-related, the... Read more

Fire Drills And Wrestling Thrills: Vacaville Sets Team Points Record En Route To Dominating SJS Title Win; Oakdale Shines As Runner-Up • STOCKTON — Surely bound for glory at the three-day CIF State Wrestling Championships that begins Feb. 21 at Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield, the Oakdale wrestling team is buzzing... Read more

With Three Of NorCal’s Top Five Teams In The Field — And 84 State Championship Berths Up For Grabs — SJS Masters Will Be Must-See Wrestling • Del Oro-Loomis and Pitman-Turlock will litter the Sac-Joaquin Section medal podiums with place-winners, but the SJS Masters Wrestling Championships will be a two-team... Read more

There Will Be 112 CIF State Championship Berths On The Line As Central Coast, North Coast And Northern Sections Hold Their Wrestling Championships On Feb. 15-16 • The roster of NorCal wrestling talent that will vie for state glory will be shaped this weekend. Eight total qualifications for each weight... Read more

Blake Brothers, Noah And Eli, Lead Del Oro Wrestling Into The Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Tourney Looking To Make History • This weekend the Del Oro wrestling team will vie for a top-three finish at the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Wrestling Championships. It would be the seventh consecutive season the Loomis school accomplished... Read more

The Vacaville Wrestling Program Is A Mom-And-Pop Company Worth Buying Into • Vacaville wrestling coaches Clint Birch and Armando Orozco have a business that is ready for the Shark Tank. Birch and Orozco — emboldened by administrators, parents, alumni and rabid fans — manage the most profitable high school wrestling... Read more

Photo: 195 Championship Final – Xavier Williams (Livermore, NC) dec. Dylan Myers (Franklin, SJ), 5-4 The 18th Annual Mat Classic Wrestling Championships held at Granada High School in Livermore proved once again to be among the most competitive tournaments in the Bay Area. This year’s tournament featured several section and state... Read more

Buchanan Wins Prestigious Field to Capture 2019 Clovis Doc Buchanan Title TOP 10 TEAM SCORES 1 – Buchanan (CS): 194.0 2 – Montini Catholic (Illinois): 183.5 3 – Bergen Catholic (New Jersey): 163.5 4 – Gilroy (CC): 140.0 5 – Lake Highland Prep (Florida): 139.5 6 – Selma (CS): 120.5... Read more

UFC Double-Champ And Gilroy’s First-Year Coach, Daniel Cormier, Expects The Mustangs To Contend For A State Wrestling Title • When UFC officials approached Daniel Cormier to schedule his next main event pay-per-view, the first UFC two-division champion to successfully defend both titles made his priorities clear. “I told them I... Read more

The pinnacle of girls high school wrestling, Women’s Wrestling West Coast Tournament Of Champions transforms Rocklin’s Hardwood Palace, Dec. 14-15 into a girls wrestling mecca! The 4th Annual Women’s West Coast Tournament of Champions, Placer Valley Tourism, Cliff Keen and Sacramento Area Wrestling Association have teamed up once again for the... Read more