NCS/OAKLAND: By Chace Bryson | SJS: By Jim McCue To quote a popular ad slogan, “Here we go.” The road to the California Interscholastic Federation state basketball championships at Sacramento’s Power Balance Pavilion began on Feb. 21. More than 150 teams will lace up their sneaks and put it all on the... Read more

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By ERIK STORDAHL | SportStars   It wasn’t the finest game of his storied career, but Richard Longrus still brought his lunch pail to McKeon Pavilion at St. Mary’s College. Longrus helped the Bishop O’Dowd boys basketball team capture its second NCS championship in three years and the program’s... Read more

By ERIK STORDAHL | SportStars   It’s the same formula that got it this far in the season, so they saw no need in changing it “” even after a shaky first quarter. The Carondelet girls basketball team led only 19-16 against visiting McNair-Stockton in the California Interscholastic Federation... Read more

By CHACE BRYSON | Editor   It should’ve felt like a bigger deal “” a bigger moment.  After 32 minutes of making the Windsor High boys basketball team wish it could be anywhere else, Newark Memorial was about to be crowned the North Coast Section Division II champion following a... Read more

By CLAY KALLAM | Contributor   It was 10-0. Laguna Hills had eight turnovers “” and had managed to get off just two shots. One of them was an air ball. Multiply that by eight, and you have the story of the Bishop O’Dowd-Laguna Hills “game” that passed for... Read more

By ERIK STORDAHL | SportStars   The ball left Taylor Johns hands from point-blank range. It glided on the rim for what seemed an eternity. It looked like it was going in. If it did, it would’ve tied the game and, most likely, forced overtime “” it didn’t. Instead,... Read more

By CHACE BRYSON | Editor Gemeny Givens couldn’t speak with enthusiasm, but he didn’t have any problem finding perspective following his final game in a St. Joseph Notre Dame High uniform. After four years in the Pilots’ program, he was walking in the catacombs of Power Balance Pavilion after... Read more

A one day Pro camp conducted by former NBA player Oliver Lee, Uncle and once trainer of NBA Legend Vince Carter, Ben Darling, owner and coach of the Bay Area Matrix and a group of talented basketball athletes proved exciting and beneficial. Coaches ran participants through college and NBA... Read more

If there is such a thing as an upset in all star game, this one would be classified as such, as the class of 2014 edge the class of 2013 by a score of 131-128 Sunday afternoon in the fourth annual Nor Cal Clash at Contra Costa College in... Read more

By JIM McCUE | Senior Contributor   The boys’ basketball program shares a lot in common with its female counterparts. Both teams have grown into perennial league contenders and playoff threats; both have strong senior returners looking to lead an inexperienced roster; and both will play challenging schedules to... Read more

Records are final. (source: MaxPreps.com)   RANK LAST WK TEAM RECORD 1 1 Bishop O’Dowd-Oakland 30-3   2 2 St. Mary’s-Stockton 32-3   3 3 Miramonte-Orinda 27-3   4 6 Carondelet-Concord 27-4   5 4 St. Mary’s-Berkeley 30-5   6 5 Archbishop Mitty-San Jose 24-7   7 7 Sacred... Read more