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Haley Van Dyke SportStar of the Week Basketball
SportStar Of The Week Campolindo Basketball Junior  Haley Van Dyke For Campolindo Basketball, it wasn’t a matter of what Van Dyke accomplished over the two-week CIF Northern Regional Division III tournament. It may be easier to list the things she didn’t accomplish in leading the Cougars to the their... Read more
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
BRYSON: Mixed Emotions
With NorCal product Joe Mixon a controversial topic as the NFL draft nears, editor Chace Bryson urges readers to sift through the noise • This column begins with a question. Have you — yes, you, dear reader — met Joe Mixon? Chances are high that you haven’t. Yet many of you... Read more
Everyday Joe
NOTE: This article first appeared in SportStars on August 22, 2013, as the cover story to our 2013 Football Preview. • We are providing it again in its original version as a complement to the most recent column of our editor, Chace Bryson, who reflects on the Joe Mixon... Read more
Stamped of Talent
NorCal Softball Season Kicks Into High Gear With Loaded Livermore Stampede • With more top-end softball tournaments springing up each season, the Livermore Stampede is constantly under pressure to keep its reputation as the premier mid-season NorCal tournament. It will have no problem keeping that title this season. The 23rd... 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
Rugby 101: Part IV
Rugby Culture And A Region Unparalleled Editors note: This is the fourth and final installment to a four-part series. Parts 1-3 can be found beginning with our January issue. All four articles are also available at sportstarsmag.com In this, our final installment of this series, we will be spotlighting... Read more