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   Reviewing the first high school football event at Levi’s Stadium, and five suggested future matchups. State of Play: Mark Tennis    It wasn’t the Friday night lights of the Corral at Oakdale High, but for senior fullback Frankie Trent the Saturday afternoon sunshine he felt on Oct. 11 at... Read more
   Last year’s cover story in SportStars by Ben Enos focused on football bragging rights being decided in games between teams from the Bay Area and the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section.    At the time Enos wrote the story, the Sac-Joaquin held a 114-90 edge in reported games from the... Read more
State of Play by Mark Tennis    Heading into the closing weeks of the last two California high school football seasons, there weren’t many certainties except it was pretty obvious that whichever teams were going to play in the CIF Division II State Bowl game, the Northern California team... Read more
State of Play By Mark Tennis    Golden State teams have won the U.S. or world title in Williamsport 20 times, which dwarfs the total from any other state.    Every summer in a Pennsylvania community that is still small enough to have just one high school, tens of... Read more
State of Play: Mark Tennis    It may be a surprise to some, but the most people to ever witness a California high school sporting event was the 85,000 who jammed the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in the summer of 1957 for the North-South Shrine Game.    This was... Read more
State of Play: Mark Tennis     It may seem like Southern California schools and teams in many sports always get benefit of the doubt when it comes to rankings and honors on the statewide level compared to Northern California.    Here’s a shock. Yes, they do. But it has... Read more
Aaron Gordon fast-tracks to NBA lottery pick
Draft Double-up:    It was only fitting University of Arizona freshman forward Aaron Gordon was selected by the Orlando Magic with the No. 4 pick in the 2014 NBA Draft.    After all, the 6-foot-8 1/2 forward from Archbishop Mitty-San Jose proved over the last three years he’s among... Read more
   Santa Clara (August 13, 2014)  – The Santa Clara Aquamaids, http://www.aquamaids.org/, founded in 1964, is celebrating its 50th anniversary on August 30th, 2014 at the Santa Clara University Mayer Theater (Santa Clara University Campus, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95050) starting at 6:45pm.  The detail of... Read more
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. ““ 6/21/2014    37 members of the Walnut Creek Aquanuts synchronized swimming team are set to compete for a national title at the 2014 U.S. eSynchro Age Group Synchronized Swimming Championships in Federal Way Washington. The meet, scheduled June 27-July 5th  is the largest synchronized swimming... Read more
SportStars reports   Several members of the Northern California Volleyball Association High Performance team turned in an outstanding performance at the USA High Performances Championships in Tucson, Ariz. on July 28-30, bringing the silver medal back to the East Bay. It was the best-ever showing for the team in... Read more
By ERIK STORDAHL | Contributor   After making a splash in its first season as a volleyball club, Pacific Rim is doing more than an encore performance this go around.  Formed in August of 2010, the Pleasant Hill-based club burst onto the scene by going undefeated locally and making... Read more
By Erik Stordahl | SportStars   With the rugby season already a month old, Michael Dominguez likes what he sees.  The Diablo Rugby head coach, now in his third year at that position, looks to improve on last year’s fourth place finish at the Northern California Tournament.  “Honestly, we... Read more