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NorCal Baseball Player Of The Year | Nolan Stevens
RELENTLESS: Nolan Stevens Set Out To Do Everything In His Power To Lift Franklin-Elk Grove To Its First Section Title — And Delivered • PHOTOS: David Gershon Franklin baseball coach Bryan Kilby estimated he heard it at least 50 times.  Nolan Stevens made a habit of telling his coach... Read more
NorCal Softball Player Of The Year | Sophia Mariottini
FOUND STRENGTH: Sophia Mariottini Pushed Herself To Become A Lockdown Pitcher, Dependable Bat For NorCal & State’s Top Team • PHOTOS: Larry Kauk / Legndz Photography For the Hollister softball team and Sophia Mariottini, expectations for the 2023 season were modest at best.  There were only a handful of... Read more
NorCal Team Of The Week (May 30-June 3) | Hollister Softball
Early Grind Of Games In March, And Pivotal Loss On May 1, Built Hollister Softball Into An Unstoppable Force By Season’s End • PHOTOS: Larry Kauk / Legndz Photography After a 33-game season, it’s not always easy to recall vivid details from just any game. But Hollister softball senior... Read more
12 Reasons To Start Cycling This Summer
Guest Contributor Michael Van Gerpen Offers Up A Dozen Benefits To Adding Cycling To Your Summer Activities Lists • Beyond being just a mode of transportation or another form of exercise, cycling offers a multitude of additional benefits as well. Whether you prefer riding indoors or outdoors, a leisurely... Read more
2023 Final NorCal Softball Rankings | Top 25
Central Coast Section Sweeps Each Of The Top Three Spots In The Final NorCal Softball Rankings, Including A First-Time No. 1 • PICTURED ABOVE: CIF Div. I NorCal Championship Game Hero, Hank Tripaldi, Of No. 1 De La Salle. (Chace Bryson photo) Final NorCal Softball Rankings. All records are... Read more
SportStories, Ep 2.7 | California Track & Field Series — Meb Keflezighi
Arguably One Of America’s Greatest Distance Runners, San Diego High Grad And Four-Time Olympian Meb Keflezighi Joins The Podcast • For our final installment to the CA Track & Field series that we’ve used to open Season 2, we host our fourth consecutive Olympian and our first distance runner.... Read more
2023 Final NorCal Baseball Rankings | Top 25
Comeback Win In The CIF Div. I Final Leads To De La Salle Grabbing No. 1 — Again — In Our Final NorCal Baseball Rankings • PICTURED ABOVE: CIF Div. I NorCal Championship Game Hero, Hank Tripaldi, Of No. 1 De La Salle. (Chace Bryson photo) Final NorCal Baseball... Read more
SportSquad VOTE: NorCal Team Of The Week | May 30-June 3
Our Final NorCal Team Of The Week Vote Of The Season Pits Four NorCal Baseball/Softball Regional Champions Against Each Other • We used the last month of the 2022-23 interscholastic sports calendar to try out a new weekly feature at SportStars. Welcome to our last vote for the SportSquad... Read more
NorCal Team Of The Week, May 15-20 | Pittsburg Baseball
Pittsburg Baseball Embraced Its Inner Bad Guy To Win Its First NCS Game Since 1996 And Ignite A Run To The Division I Semifinals • IMAGE CREDIT: Pittsburg High Baseball/Twitter Sometimes it pays to be the villain. That was the mindset the Pittsburg High baseball team adopted as an... Read more
SportStars NorCal Softball Rankings | May 30
Section Playoffs Deliver Big Changes To NorCal Softball Rankings, Including A Brand New No. 1 Out Of The Central Coast • NorCal Softball Rankings All records are through Saturday, May 27 (via MaxPreps). Previous rank is in parenthesis. PICTURED ABOVE: Your New No. 1, The Hollister Haybalers. (Central Coast... Read more
NorCal Team Of The Week, May 8-13 | San Ramon Valley Girls Lacrosse
After Yet Another Undefeated Season And North Coast Section Title, San Ramon Valley Girls Lacrosse Continues To Build Impressive Legacy • As five-year runs go, it would be hard to perform any better than the San Ramon Valley girls lacrosse team.  The Wolves were recently voted our #SportSquad NorCal... Read more
SportStories, Ep 2.6 | California Track & Field Series — Reynaldo Brown
What’s It Like Participating In The Olympics As A 17-Year-Old? High Jumping Great, Reynaldo Brown, Visits The Show To Tell The Tale • Our California Track & Field-themed series continues this week as we’re joined by another former Olympian. One with quite the unique experience. Imagine setting the high... Read more