Sportstars
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
SECOND TEAM   JADÉ SMITH (St. Joseph Notre Dame-Alameda, Sr.) | Guard | 6-3 | 
KEY STATS: Pepperdine-commit averaged 17 points, nine rebounds, six assists and five steals for 30-win Pilots.   KESHAWN BRUNER (Burbank-Sacramento, Sr.) | Guard | 6-3
 | KEY STATS: The Cal State East Bay-bound talent... Read more
All-NorCal Girls Basketball ’16-’17
SECOND TEAM McKENZIE FORBES (Folsom, Jr.) | Wing | 6-0 | 
KEY STATS: Averaged 19.2 points and 5.0 rebounds despite playing only 23 minutes a game. HANNAH JUMP (Pinewood-Los Altos Hills, Soph.) | Wing | 5-11 
| KEY STATS: Averaged 15.5 points and made 100 three-pointers – while shooting... 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
Preview: SoCal Boys Finals
DIVISION II MATCHUP: No. 13 Pasadena (27-6) at No. 2 Esperanza-Anaheim (28-3),  6 p.m., March 18 HISTORY: This is the first appearance in the regional finals for both teams. ESPERANZA KEYS TO VICTORY: Stanford-signee Kezie Okpala has been the engine behind the Aztecs charge all season long. The 6-8 senior,... Read more
Preview: SoCal Girls Finals
DIVISION II MATCHUP: No. 1 Orangewood Academy-Garden Grove (22-9) vs. No. 2 seed Mater Dei-Santa Ana (23-8), March 17, 4:30 p.m. at Vanguard University HISTORY: Orangewood Academy is a new kid on the block with respect to Southern Regional title games while Mater Dei has been in the fourth-most... Read more
Preview: NorCal Boys Finals
DIVISION II MATCHUP: No. 3 Moreau Catholic-Hayward (24-9) at No. 1 St. Francis-Mountain View (21-9), 6 p.m. HISTORY: Moreau Catholic’s only other regional finals appearance came in 2014, when it defeated Salesian-Richmond 61-52 in the Div. IV championship. That preceded to straight years of opening-round losses in the Open... Read more