All-NorCal Football Defense | Spring 2021
Central Coast SectionHigh School FootballNorth Coast SectionSac-Joaquin Section July 15, 2021 0
No First Teams Or Second Teams — These Are Simply The 20 Defensive Players We Selected To Honor As All-NorCal Standouts This Spring • TOP IMAGE: De La Salle-Concord’s Zeke Berry (left) and St. Mary’s-Stockton’s Nick Murray. (Jean-Paul Toshiro photo) Our All-NorCal Football Offense and Defense were chosen a... Read more
Jzaniya Harriel | SportStars’ NorCal Girls Basketball Player Of The Year
High School BasketballSac-Joaquin Section July 15, 2021 0
A Dominant Scorer With Relentless Drive, Antelope’s Jzaniya Harriel Closed Her Career As Our First Non-Bay Area Player Of The Year • After a cover feature, multiple All-NorCal Team honors and a 2021 Preseason Player of the Year story, we’ve found we may be running out of ways to... Read more
Ms. Basketball 2021: Calling Ms. Curry
Blog July 15, 2021
It goes down to the last game, but that’s the difference for Centennial of Corona guard Jayda Curry in gaining this year’s most prestigious and longest running girls basketball individual honor in California. Choosing a Ms. Basketball with no state championships for a second straight year was made even... Read more
Emmanuel Callas | SportStars’ NorCal Boys Basketball Player Of The Year
High School BasketballNorth Coast Section July 14, 2021 1
A Model Of Perseverance, Campolindo’s Emmanuel Callas Raised His Game To Help Lead The Cougars To An Undefeated Season And NorCal’s Top Ranking • Emmanuel Callas and his Campolindo-Moraga teammates approached this basketball season as if a championship were at stake. Though there were no playoffs in the abbreviated season,... Read more
MLB Draft: Five from state on 1st night
Blog July 12, 2021
California didn’t get the No. 1 overall position for the second straight year and ended the night with a lower total than usual, but there was still plenty of highlights from the first night of the 2021 MLB Draft. Chula Vista Eastlake struck again with Marcelo Mayer’s selection at... Read more
Mr. Basketball 2021: A Notch Above
Blog July 9, 2021
In a season with a lot of uncertainties, there was one certain: the constant, spectacular play of Sierra Canyon’s Amari Bailey. Today, the elite junior is named California Mr. Basketball by Cal-Hi Sports, becoming the second straight honoree from the well-known San Fernando Valley private school power. Can he... Read more
State Coach of Year: Martin Woods
Blog July 7, 2021
Before the fireworks went off, Corona Centennial’s Josh Giles was selected State Coach of the Year in boys basketball. The fireworks may be cooling, but the school keeps on sparkling with Martin Woods named as State Coach of the Year for girls basketball. This is the first time a... Read more
Half-Mile High | John Lester Races Into National Spotlight
High School Sports FeaturesNorth Coast SectionTrack & Field, Anchored by Youth Runner July 6, 2021 0
Despite Never Getting To Climb A CIF Podium, Pleasanton’s John Lester Graduated From Amador Valley Last Month As One Of The Nation’s Best High School 800-Meter Runners — Ever The 800-meter event is one of the toughest in track and field. To be successful requires the endurance of a... Read more
NBA Finals Alums 2021: Just Two
Blog July 6, 2021
There’s only a pair of ex-California high school players who’ll be in this year’s NBA Finals between the Milwaukee Bucks and Phoenix Suns, but they’ve both been all-stars and were instrumental in the Bucks winning the Eastern Conference title after their No. 1 player, Giannis Antetokounmpo, went down with... Read more
FINAL State TOP 40 Baseball Rankings
Blog July 2, 2021
Previous No. 3 Buchanan’s loss to Bishop Amat shook up the final order with the Bears falling three spots while the Lancers had to come way up and wound up in the top 10. Two CIF San Diego Section teams that won CIF SoCal regional titles — La Costa... Read more
Esperanza: State Softball Team of Year
Blog July 1, 2021
There is an asterisk attached to the 2021 State Softball Team of the Year honor that has been earned by Esperanza of Anaheim, but that has nothing to do with the worldwide pandemic that caused the 2020 season to be scrapped after a few weeks. The Aztecs are a... Read more
FINAL State TOP 40 Girls BB Ranks
Blog June 30, 2021
It’s hard to believe that we are doing final rankings up against the Fourth of July and with school out for the summer, but before the season began we made it clear we would not let this pandemic wipe out the normalcy of our weekly rankings and yearly postseason... Read more
