Sportstars
Nick Yorke, Boston Red Sox 1st Round Pick | SportStar Of The Week
NICK YORKE Archbishop Mitty-San Jose – Baseball – Senior Despite having his senior season all but wiped out because of the Coronavirus, something tells us that the recently-graduated Yorke is a lot less bummed after June 11. That’s when the Boston Red Sox made him their first-round selection (17th... Read more
SportStars: 10 Years of Sports Coverage • A Decade of Gratitude!
SportStars 10th Anniversary Special Edition is now Live Online A mammoth 70-page effort jam-packed with Best Of’s, Player Spotlights, Memories, Favorites, Amazing Photography and More. 10 Years of Sports Coverage. A Decade of Gratitude! Honor. Encourage. Inspire. Thank you Reader Friends!   #NeverStop #SportStarsNow Mike, Sharon, Chace, MikeD, Ryan... Read more
Luca Urlando- McClatchy Swimming SportStar
Luca Urlando- Senior from McClatchy High School in Sacramento is named SportStar of the Week! Luca Urlando ranks as the No. 2 overall senior recruit in the nation by SwimSwam.com. Which means NorCal was robbed to see what he might have done in his final postseason with McClatchy. Instead... Read more
SportStars’ Boys Swimming Big 10 | NorCal’s Best Swimmers (’11-’20)
SportStars’ 10 Year Anniversary Project Continues With Its Boys Swimming Big 10 — The Magazine’s Top 10 NorCal Boys Swimmers Of The Past Decade • The Boys Swimming Big 10 is an installation of the SportStars Big 10 Project: A 10-months-long anniversary project to celebrate what will be 10... Read more
Madi Mays Minutemen Softball SportStar of the Week
Madi Mays’ Minutemen career began as a freshman in 2017 when she helped Concord High School softball claim a North Coast Section Division II title. Mays went 3-for-4 with 4 RBI in the final against Granada. Fast forward to her last varsity game, Mays spun a no-hitter against Monte... Read more
SportStars’ Girls Swimming Big 10 | NorCal’s Best Swimmers (’11-’20)
SportStars’ 10 Year Anniversary Project Continues With Its Girls Swimming Big 10 — The Magazine’s Top 10 NorCal Girls Swimmers Of The Past Decade • The Girls Swimming Big 10 is an installation of the SportStars Big 10 Project: A 10-months-long anniversary project to celebrate what will be 10... Read more
Shaped By Sports | Tom Costello’s #NeverStop Reflection
A Coaching Legend’s Brief Remark Helped Dublin High Basketball Coach Tom Costello Crystalize His Philosophy And Career Goals • This is part of the SportStars #NeverStop Project What is it about sports that shapes you?  There’s a hot, summer day in July 1998 that will forever be etched in... Read more
Ben Dillard, Oak Ridge Swimmer – What Would’ve Been
SportStar Ben Dillard, a senior swimmer from Oak Ridge-El Dorado Hills, is a champion. A record-setting champion in fact. Dillard’s the kind of guy who fills the grandstands. The sort of swimmer whom spectators and other swimmers alike find themselves rooting for in hopes of witnessing a new record.... Read more
Hannah Malek, No. 20 | A #NeverStop Basketball Love Story
Nothing Was Going To Keep Hannah Malek Away From The Game Of Basketball — And The St. Francis-Sacramento Program Was Made Richer Because Of It • This is part of the SportStars #NeverStop Project If you’d told me I was going to be a varsity athlete when I was... Read more
YV Soccer- Alejandro Lopez Gets Star Treatment
Editors Select Ygnacio Valley-Concord Senior Alejandro Lopez SportStar Of The Week for his prowess on the soccer field Alejandro Lopez was a four-year varsity player and three-year captain for the Ygnacio Valley Warriors. He closed out his prep career by leading the team to the North Coast Section Division... Read more
From Callero To Zuardo | One Coach’s #NeverStop Thanks To His Mentors
Heritage High Baseball Coach Kevin Brannan Offers A #NeverStop Salute To Mike Callero And Lou Zuardo, The Coaches Who Shaped His Career • As several players have thanked their coaches as part of this project, sometimes coaches need to do the same. There are two people — Mike Callero... Read more
Legendary Footprint | Tom Gonsalves Exits St. Mary’s Girls Hoops
After Making The Stockton School A Girls Basketball National Force, Coach Tom Gonsalves Has Stepped Down After Illustrious Two-Decade Run • Good coaches build a program. Only the elite raise a region. When Tom Gonsalves took over at St. Mary’s of Stockton in 2002, the Sac-Joaquin Section was far... Read more