Etiwanda’s Jahmai Mashack will likely end up playing for a big-time college basketball program, but he will get there the hard way. Hard as in, he was sickly as a child and overshadowed by his siblings, missed AAU ball two consecutive years due to rotten luck. And then the... Read more

NEW YORK — First-round draft pick Pete Crow-Armstrong of Harvard-Westlake High School and the New York Mets agreed Thursday to a minor-league contract with a $3,359,000 signing bonus, the slot value for the 19th overall selection in the amateur draft. The 18-year-old center fielder from Sherman Oaks hit .514... Read more

Even though her senior season in softball was cut way short by the Coronavirus pandemic, Norco’s Sarah Willis did more than enough in her two sports of softball and basketball to earn overall girls state athlete of the year honors. She’s the first from the Inland Empire to be... Read more

CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device. PALO ALTO — Jason Miller and Nelson Gifford are Black men who coach football at Palo Alto’s two public high schools. If you happen to follow them on Twitter — and chances are you do... Read more

Long Beach Poly’s Camille Lindsay rocketed onto the high school running scene last September with a spectacular effort at the prestigious Woodbridge Cross Country Classic, dominated all three Moore League races — winning the final by nearly a minute — and was set to challenge the state’s best at... Read more

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now: Tribune | Star-News | Whittier Daily News When El Monte football coach Jesse Ceniceros returns home from the store or running other errands, he has the same routine. He goes to his garage, puts his clothes in... Read more

Here’s an updated and expanded version of our ranking of the all-time greatest teams in California high school softball history. This one includes two teams from last season placed fairly high — one in the top five and the other in the top 15. We also have added three... Read more

Justin Love, a star basketball player at Sacred Heart Cathedral in the mid-1990s who went on to help lead St. Louis University to an NCAA tournament appearance in 2000, has died. He was 41. “Our hearts are hurting today as we learn of the passing of a great Billiken,... Read more

That old saying about a pitcher with a million-dollar arm but a 10-cent head certainly does not apply to Jared Jones, his head coach at La Mirada High said. “That’s what makes kids with talent successful, is having a good head on their shoulders,” Jimmy Zurn said. Zurn said... Read more

The Kaiser softball team was reeling. The Cats lost six of their first seven games to start the 2020 season. They needed a savior. Or a shaman. Or maybe an exorcist. What they got was the steady hand of a diminutive, 67-year-old coach, Dave Showalter, who has known heartache... Read more

RIPON — Ripon senior quarterback Aaron Wood was as shocked as anyone when Bill Belichick popped up on his computer screen and talked about the Ripon football team.Belichick was one of the numerous star presenters for the 2020 Record Best of Preps ceremony, and he announced the Ripon Football... Read more

OAKLAND — Oakland schools have settled a gender discrimination claim, agreeing to provide equal opportunities for female student athletes. The settlement was with Fair Play for Girls in Sports, a project of Legal Aid at Work, over the district’s gender inequity issues. The agreement calls for a three-year monitoring... Read more