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NorCal Lands Late July End Of Trail NCAA Viewing Event • Story By HAROLD ABEND | Photo by SAMUEL STRINGER The historic End of the Trail that connected the Missouri River to Oregon City, and was explored by Lewis and Clark, has a new twist. The long-standing End of... Read more
Turning Heads
Given Their Own Chance To Shine, NorCal’s Asian-American Hoopers Made The Most Of Their First All-Star Event • Story By CHACE BRSON | Photos By SAMUEL STRINGER Kobe Ordonio hit his fifth 3-pointer of the game and the NorCal Asian Senior All-Stars bench shot up in excitement while the... Read more
The NBA Season Has Ended. Now it’s Your Turn!
BALL WITH THE BEST. YOUR SEASON STARTS WITH BIGFOOT HOOPS The Bigfoot Hoops Summer Basketball Championships are here, featuring the granddaddy of all youth basketball tournaments—The Bigfoot Hoops Las Vegas Classic! Over 1,100 teams attended last year, with live game coverage featured on ESPN networks. BALL WITH THE BEST!... Read more
Shining Moment
NorCal Sports Streaming Company Is Giving Asian-American Prep Hoopers Their Own All-Star Event • By Mike Wood NorCal Sports TV is debuting the NorCal Asian-American All-Star Game this Thursday, June 22, at Cal State University East Bay Gymnasium in Hayward, featuring  high school basketball players from throughout the region.... Read more
The Trials Of USA Tryouts
The Obstacles Are Plenty And The Odds Are Long — But It’s Still Just Basketball • Story By CLAY KALLAM COLORADO SPRINGS — It’s all pretty familiar. Navigating in and out of the airport, getting the rental car, driving to the hotel, finding the gym. Maybe you expected the United States... Read more
All-Norcal Boys Basketball ’16-’17
Woodcreek-Roseville’s Jordan Brown Was A Slam Dunk Choice As NorCal Player Of The Year • As the final quarter of California basketball for the 2016-17 season ticked away, and Bishop Montgomery-Torrance mustered just enough moxie to eventually hold off Woodcreek-Roseville 74-67 in the CIF Open Division state final, it... Read more
All-NorCal Girls Basketball ’16-’17
  Player Of The Year, Iimari Thomas of Sacred Heart Cathedral-S.F., Headlines Our Top 15 Players From 2016-17 • There’s a computer program buried deep in the bowels of the massive MaxPreps’ database of girls high school basketball teams, and it churns through the wins and losses — and... Read more
City of Stars
San Francisco’s First Public School State Basketball Champion Had Plenty Of Noteworthy Predecessors. Yes, it’s true that Mission High became the first public school from San Francisco to win a CIF state basketball title when the Bears turned back Villa Park 82-75 in overtime on March 24 in the... Read more
Kezie Okpala: SportStar of the Week-Basketball
SportStar Of The Week | Esperanza | Basketball | Senior • Okpala closed out a stellar Aztecs career with a double-double of 22 points and 12 rebounds.  As a result, this helped lead Esperanza to the program’s first state title in its first appearance. In addition, Esperanza wasn’t fazed in... 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
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