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Method To Rankings Madness
State of Play: Mark Tennis (California Football Preseason TOP 20 follows below)    Preseason prep football coverage tends to be dominated by rankings of the top teams, but looking at players has always been important as well.    Key factors one always looks at for teams includes returning starters, what happened... Read more
   If you happen to be, or have been, an athlete in any sport then you know how important it is for you to have the best season of your life every season. For me, the sport of choice was football.     I was blessed to be able to... Read more
   Our football team hasn’t been that good recently, but this year, we’re going to shock the world. We’ve had a great offseason, our new coaches are super and we’ve all made it our goal to win the league. No one thinks we can do it and people tell... Read more
   Each year in early August, myself and SportStars Sac-Joaquin content coordinator, Jim McCue, sit down and begin to plan out our football coverage — and not just for the Preview, but for the season as a whole, too.     Often times we throw out questions to one another... Read more
Vincent Byrd II Still Swinging so we went Byrd Watching
Four years after gracing our cover as an eighth-grade slugger, Vincent Byrd II is still swinging away Vincent Byrd II counts his blessings like he counts on the advice of four former professional baseball players. The 6-foot-7-inch graduate of Sacramento’s El Camino High sounds sincerely thankful when asked about... Read more
De La Salle football has played its share of heavyweights, but it embarks on new ground Aug. 29 Read more
Counting down from 75 to 1, it’s our third annual ranking of the Bay Area’s top 75 athletes Read more