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7 Friday Night Podcast | Ep. 3: Pirates, Padres & Pageantry

Central Coast Section High School Football North Coast Section Podcasts Sac-Joaquin Section August 25, 2021 0

Hosts Chace Bryson And Ben Enos Do The School St. Shuffle With A Visit To Pittsburg High In Advance Of The Biggest Game Of The Bay Area’s Opening Week • Bay Area high school football returns this week, so Ben and Chace literally take the show on the road... Read more

NFL Vet Leads Monte Vista Makeover | RETURN TO FALL Football Preview Series No. 16

Central Coast Section High School Football North Coast Section August 23, 2021 0

Former Super Bowl Champion CJ Anderson Ready To Re-Energize Monte Vista Football; PLUS Serra’s “Missile” Ready For Relaunch • This is the sixteenth of 20 installments to our Return To Fall Series — a daily component to our 2021 NorCal Football Preview coverage. Midway through a highly productive NFL... Read more

Folsom Bulldogs Bust Loose | RETURN TO FALL Football Preview Series No. 15

High School Football Sac-Joaquin Section August 21, 2021 0

NorCal’s No. 2-Ranked Folsom Bulldogs Football Team Looked Every Bit The Part In Season-Opening Stomp Of Monterey Trail • This is the fifteenth of 20 installments to our Return To Fall Series — a daily component to our 2021 NorCal Football Preview coverage. As opening statements go, this one... Read more

Whitney’s Smiley Disposition | RETURN TO FALL Football Preview Series No. 14

High School Football North Coast Section Sac-Joaquin Section August 20, 2021 0

Whitney Taps Sophomore Jacob Smiley As QB1, Expects To Hold Its Own In Grueling Sierra Foothill League; PLUS Fellow Soph Bradley Kenny Fills Big Shoes At Center-Antelope • This is the fourteenth of 20 installments to our Return To Fall Series — a daily component to our 2021 NorCal... Read more

Sac-Joaquin Section Predictions | RETURN TO FALL Football Preview Series No. 13

High School Football North Coast Section Sac-Joaquin Section August 19, 2021 0

SportStars Staff Members Get Their Limb-Climbing Shoes On For Some Sac-Joaquin Section Predictions; PLUS Our Player Spotlight Travels To James Logan-Union City • This is the thirteenth of 20 installments to our Return To Fall Series — a daily component to our 2021 NorCal Football Preview coverage. Kickoff arrives... Read more

Are We There Yet? | High School Football In Search Of Normalcy

Central Coast Section Central Section High School Football High School Sports Features Los Angeles City Section North Coast Section Northern Section Oakland Section Sac-Joaquin Section San Diego Section San Francisco Section Southern Section August 18, 2021 0

Fall High School Football Is Back, But “Normal” Is Defined Differently Campus To Campus. Coaches Weigh In On What Is Normal As The Lights Prepare To Come Back On • On a typically hot mid-August afternoon, everything felt normal at College Park High School. About an hour after the... Read more

Still Ugly | Clayton Valley Football Has New Look, Same Fire

High School Football North Coast Section August 18, 2021 0

Despite Roster Turnover And Coaching Staff Tweaks, The Clayton Valley Ugly Eagles Have Multiple Titles To Defend — And Remain Very Much A Threat To Do So • Nobody has to tell Nick Tisa what happened in the final game of Clayton Valley High’s last full football season. “I’ve been... Read more

SportStars’ 2021 NorCal All-Preseason Football Team

Central Coast Section High School Football North Coast Section Oakland Section Sac-Joaquin Section August 18, 2021 0

SportStars Chooses 24 Players To Represent It’s NorCal All-Preseason Team Prior To The 2021 Fall Football Season For our NorCal All-Preseason team we keep things simple. Eleven on offense. Eleven on defense. One kicker and one all-purpose player. OFFENSE QB Tyler Tremain (Folsom), Sr. Had no problem joining the... Read more

2021 Preseason NorCal Top 20 Football Rankings

Central Coast Section High School Football North Coast Section Northern Section Oakland Section Rankings Sac-Joaquin Section San Francisco Section August 18, 2021 0

To No One’s Shock, De La Salle-Concord Opens At No. 1 In SportStars’ Preseason NorCal Top 20 Rankings, But Folsom Is 1A • Every coach will tell you that rankings don’t matter in August, only in December. We can’t disagree, but it’s not stopping us from taking our usual... Read more

Clear Eyes, Full Hearts | Serra Football Embraces The Present

Central Coast Section High School Football August 18, 2021 0

Few Programs Understand The Fragility Of The Present As Well As Serra Football — And The Padres Are More Than Ready To Make The Most Of Their First Fall Season Since 2019 • A full slate of fall football is most welcome at Serra High in San Mateo. The Padres... Read more

Let ‘Er Rip! | Cosumnes Oaks Football Trades Hype For Hunger

High School Football Sac-Joaquin Section August 18, 2021 3

After Missing Out On A 2020 Season That Carried High Expectations, Cosumnes Oaks Football Is Ready To Play Underdog Behind A New Coach And Fearless Quarterback • It’s been three years since senior quarterback Steven Duran III worked closely with Martin Billings on the Cosumnes Oaks football field. As... Read more

Leave The Clipboard | New Football Coaches Adjust To Changed Landscape

Central Coast Section Central Section High School Football Los Angeles City Section North Coast Section Northern Section Oakland Section Sac-Joaquin Section San Diego Section San Francisco Section Southern Section August 18, 2021 0

For New Football Coaches, Old Methods Don’t Apply To Socially-Distanced Sidelines And Team Rooms • So you want to run your own high school football program? Try figuring out how to do it during a global pandemic. The learning curve associated with taking over a program is steep under... Read more