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Manteca, Mitty Football Open NorCal Preseason Ranks As #29-30
We Open Our 2019 NorCal Preseason Football Rankings With Two Programs Who Finished 2018 Unranked — But Look Ready To Take The Next Step • This is the first of five releases this week debuting the opening 10 teams to our expanded 2019 NorCal Preseason Rankings. Mitty’s promise lies... Read more
Spotlight on Folsom Football: 4 Alumni Players to Watch in 2019
Recent Folsom Football Alumni: 4 Players to Watch in 2019, Guest post The Folsom Bulldogs have a storied high school football program. Just 4 years ago, the school committed a record-breaking seven student-athletes to Division 1 football programs. One of the most notable, Jake Browning, the University of Washington star,... Read more
Gabriel Reclusado Piedmont Hills, SportStar of the Week
Gabriel Reclusado turned the 43rd Annual Charlie Wedemeyer All-Star Game into his own personal highlight show. The recent Pirates graduate had a 25-yard interception return for a touchdown during the second quarter. He then took over at quarterback and completed a pair of passes for 81 yards, one of... Read more
Charlie Wedemeyer All-Star Football: Two Gabes Lead North To Victory
Gabriel Reclusado And Gabe Herrera Shine In 45th Playing Of The Charlie Wedemeyer All-Star Football Game Showcasing The Most Recent Santa Clara County Grads • Between the Toronto Raptors and the Stark Family of Westeros, it’s been a good year for the North. That didn’t change in the 45th Annual... Read more
360 Football Academy: Hannibal Navies Heading Camp Revolution
Bay Area-Native NFL Veteran Provides Youth Athletes The Full Spectrum With His 360 Football Academy Camp In The Bay • Hannibal Navies spent nine years playing in the National Football League. And his post-playing career has been spent working with the NFL Players Association.  But Navies also grew up... Read more
SportStars 2019 Football Preview Cover Vote
SportStars Football Preview OFFICIAL Voting Welcome to the 2019 Cover Vote! Tell us who should grace our SportStars Football Preview covers next month. We’ll have our two covers, Bay Area and Sac-Joaquin. So tell us who you believe are the most deserving players for each region. GOT A WRITE-IN VOTE? EMAIL... Read more
The 3 “Do’s” and “Don’ts” of Low Back Pain
Back Pain Ends with this Defensive End Back pain is the most common reason for doctor visits and athletes are even more susceptible. Bishop O’Dowd’s 2020 tight end/defensive end, Colton Vardell, who has had recent offers by the New Mexico Lobos and USD, knows the short term benefits and... Read more
NorthEast Watch: Two Teams Take Spotlight
Two Top High School Football Teams in the Northeast Hit Our Radar as Teams to Watch this Season The high school football season is a little over a month away and across the nation, excitement levels are building. In a less than a month’s time, teams throughout the Eastern... Read more
Bay Area 75: Top 20 Athletes of the Year
These 20 Athletes Conclude Our Annual Ranked Countdown Of The Bay Area Athletes Of The Year For 2018-19 • Below are the top 20 athletes from our seventh annual Bay Area 75 — SportStars’ rankings of the top 75 Bay Area athletes for the 2018-19 school year. The first 55... Read more
Bay Area 75 Rankings: 2018-19
We Reveal Our Annual Ranked Countdown Of The Bay Area Athletes Of The Year For The 2018-19 School Year • Below are the first 55 athletes from our seventh annual Bay Area 75 — SportStars’ rankings of the top 75 Bay Area athletes of the year from 2018-19. The Top... Read more
Last State Honor for Levelle Bailey
LeVelle Bailey received potentially his last All-State honor as a high school athlete in late June when we named him SportStar of the week and Cal-Hi Sports named him 1st Team Grid-Hoop All-State. The Grid-Hoop All-State teams are comprised of California’s top performers in both football and basketball. Bailey... Read more
Fortify Your Wins With Your “Why”
Graduation, good grades, sports and athletic accomplishments make up our society’s “coming of age rituals” and “rites of passage.” We prize academic and athletic performance as a measure of our physical and intellectual abilities, personal value, and even our self-worth. Winning is important, and here is a different perspective... Read more