Sportstars
Open Throttle
Story by CHACE BRYSON | Photos by JAMES K. LEASH SACRAMENTO — It started like so many other big-stage De La Salle High football games. The Spartans needed just three plays from scrimmage to break Kairee Robinson free for a 60-yard touchdown run and De La Salle had a lightning-fast... Read more
The Show Goes On
Story by RONNIE FLORES | Photos by JAMES K. LEASH The scene was Haas Pavilion for the 2015 CIF boys basketball state championships. Chino Hills was in a dogfight with a tough senior bunch from San Ramon Valley-Danville. The Div. I  state title hung in the balance. The game... Read more
Jacqueline DiSanto
SportStar Of The Week | Menlo-Atherton | Volleyball | Senior • DiSanto helped put the Bears back in the CIF Division I State final by posting 15 kills, 14 digs, three aces and going 15 of 16 on serve receives in a 3-1 victory over Oak Ridge-El Dorado Hills... Read more
Candice Denny
SportStar of the Week | Archbishop Mitty-San Jose | Volleyball | Senior • Denny had a game-high 17 kills with an astounding 60 percent success rate to help lead the Monarchs to a straight-sets win over Santa Margarita-Rancho Santa Margarita in the CIF Open Div. State Championship on Dec. 3.... Read more
Li’Angelo Ball
SportStar Of The Week | Chino Hills | Basketball | Senior • If there was any doubt whose team Chino HIlls was now that Lonzo Ball is at UCLA, his younger brother answered that in a hurry. He scored 56 points in a 121-89 win over Orange Lutheran-Orange as part... Read more
Raising The Bar
Story by MIKE WOOD | Photos by BERRY EVANS III An already towering bar of success has been raised to loftier heights for Salesian College Preparatory-Richmond’s basketball team. And that’s something the Pride’s players and coaches realize and fully embrace. It’s a natural progression for a team that shook... Read more
Perfect Storm
Story by CLAY KALLAM | Photos by NORBERT von der GROEBEN You may have heard of Kerri Walsh — but not that many are aware that the Olympic volleyball star was a superb basketball player at San Jose’s Archbishop Mitty High back in the day. And she wasn’t alone... Read more
The Fabulous Forbes
From two generations of Harlem Globetrotters, the Forbes siblings are ready for center stage Read more
Culture Shock
A New Coach And Attitude Helped The St. Ignatius Wildcats Evolve Into Title Threats Read more
Carondelet Golfer Yealimi Noh Named SportStar of the Week
Carondelet-Concord Golfer Yealimi Noh is named our SportStar of the Week One year after Top 10 finishes at both the CIF NorCal and State Tournaments — as a freshman — Noh shot to the top of the leaderboard. At The Club at Crazy Horse Ranch in Salinas on Nov. 7,... Read more
A long dormant giant, Cordova Football was at the forefront of its league and the concussion safety movement Read more
 Folsom Graduate Jake Browning Has A Chance To Join A Very Short List of NorCal Heisman Trophy Winners
   Folsom Graduate Jake Browning Has A Chance To Join A Very Short List of NorCal Heisman Trophy Winners    Northern California didn’t have much of a connection to the Heisman Trophy for the first 30 years in which college football‘s most prestigious award was handed out, but then... Read more