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FINAL NorCal Girls Hoops Top 20
Unlike the boys, we didn’t re-rank the girls following the regional tournament, so there was quite a bit more shuffling. Mitty was never moving from the top spot, but Cardinal Newman gets a deserved bump to No. 2 after knocking off Carondelet and Pinewood during the Open Div. regionals. Vanden grabs... Read more
MASTERS Fans – Diehard Golfers, Time to Up Your Game
As diehard golfers, we’re glued to the Net and the telly this time of year as Masters Week invades our living rooms, indeed our focus and lives! Baylor College of Medicine Professor and Chairman, Dr. Thomas Hunt warns us, to avoid golf injuries, get your wrist in gear! Especially,... Read more
Just Keep Playing
San Francisco’s First Public School To Win A State Hoops Title Did So Because It Refused To Have An Off Switch • Story By Chace Bryson | Photos By Berry Evans III Niamey Harris threw down the dunk and provided an exclamation point to a history-making state championship victory... Read more
FINAL: NorCal Boys Top 20
CIF Open Division runner-up Woodcreek was never budging from the top spot, but deciding what to do with state-champions St. Patrick-St. Vincent and Mission-S.F. was a bit tougher. We had the Bruins one spot ahead of the Bears before the state finals, and chose to keep it that way... Read more
Big League Fun
Feel like you’re playing in the Big Leagues by taking in the type of views legends Babe Ruth or Ted Williams had at the famous replicas of major league ballparks at Big League Dreams in Redding. The 30-plus acre complex features scaled-down replicas of Boston’s Fenway Park, New York’s... Read more
With Its First 10 Games, Clayton Valley Baseball Announced Its 2017 Presence With Authority Story By Mike Wood | Photos By Samuel Stringer Clayton Valley Charter High-Concord baseball is out of the gate quickly this season. How fast? Try a 10-0 start, with five shutouts. Thanks to a stingy... Read more
Get Ready To Get Muddy
This unique and spectacular event takes place May 13 in Redding and features a 5K and 10K. As the organizers like to say ‘It doesn’t matter if you run, walk or crawl — every mile is earned.’ And those miles will be earned in mud, glorious mud! The goal... Read more
Gearing Up for the Granite Bay Grinder
On April 8 and 9 more than a thousand high school mountain bikers will be riding the course around Folsom Lake in Granite Bay for their fourth official race of the season, first of the year in Placer Valley. Dubbed the Granite Bay Grinder, this race course is known... Read more
Special Days for Disabled and Handicap Youth
Folsom High School Baseball Team Becomes “Baseball Buddies” for Challenger League Youth. As you know by reading SportStars, Little League Challenger Program is for Youth with Disabilities and Special needs. Starting at 11:30 a.m. at Ernie Sheldon Park, Natoma Station Drive, Folsom, CA, the Folsom High School varsity baseball team will become... Read more
Preview: SoCal Boys Finals
And then there were 48. That’s how many high school basketball teams continued practice schedules this week with dreams of a state title. The majority of that number gets cut in half on March 18 as 24 boys teams and 24 girls will attempt to take the last step... Read more
Preview: SoCal Girls Finals
And then there were 48. That’s how many high school basketball teams continued practice schedules this week with dreams of a state title. The majority of that number gets cut in half on March 18 as 24 boys teams and 24 girls will attempt to take the last step... Read more
Preview: NorCal Boys Finals
And then there were 48. That’s how many high school basketball teams continued practice schedules this week with dreams of a state title. The majority of that number gets cut in half on March 18 as 24 boys teams and 24 girls will attempt to take the last step... Read more