Sportstars
7 Friday Night Podcast | Ep. 2.33: Thursday Pick ‘Em (CIF Regionals)
It’s The Final Week Of True NorCal Football Picks, And The 7 Friday Night Crew Offers Analysis & Picks On 10 Different Regional Showdowns • The stakes are higher for everyone now as the season moves past sections and into NorCal regional bowl playoffs — and that goes for... Read more
Made Of Honor | How The Honor Bowl Became A Showcase For More Than Football
After 10-Plus Years, Honor Bowl Creators Reflect On The Origins And Evolution Of Event That Brings High School Football And Military Appreciation Together • Sometimes, out of great suffering and loss can come great hope and reward. The War in Afghanistan that began in 2001 as Operation Enduring Freedom... Read more
CIF NorCal Softball Championship Previews
We Break Down The Matchups And Offer Score Predictions For Each Of The Top 3 Inaugural CIF NorCal Softball Championship Games Being Played This Saturday • Well, we had to wait an extra year, but we finally will get CIF NorCal Softball Championship games across five divisions this weekend.... Read more
SportStars NorCal Softball Rankings | May 31
Section Finals Deliver Full Shakeup To The NorCal Softball Rankings — And Regional Playoffs Could Do The Same For Next Week’s Final Rankings • NorCal Softball Rankings Previous rankings in parenthesis. All records are through Saturday, May 28 PICTURED ABOVE: Jessica Im of No. 5 Heritage-Brentwood. (Chace Bryson photo)... Read more
FINAL NorCal Football Rankings | Expanded Top 35
For The First Time In Our 11 Year History, A New Team Closes The Season At No. 1 As We Expand Our Final NorCal Football Rankings To 35 • Typically we close out the season by making our Final NorCal Football Rankings 33 percent bigger and expanding it from... Read more
7 Friday Night Podcast | Ep. 20: The Final Countdown
As The Football Season Approaches Its Finish Line, Cal-Hi Sports Editor Mark Tennis Joins The Show To Help Preview CIF State Bowl Weekend • It’s our last weekend of games, and hosts Chace and Ben are trying not to get emotional. Instead, they pour their energy into an hour... Read more
7 Friday Night Podcast | Ep. 19: Go Big Or Go Home Time
Our Show Goes Big This Week As We Recap Section Finals, Preview NorCal Regionals And Talk Bulldog Football With The Tremain Brothers • It’s a jam-packed show this week as Chace and Ben revisit an entertaining weekend of section championships and the 24-hour guessing game of who the CIF... Read more
How to Maximize Your Golf Training
Want to know how to maximize your golf training? Putting these tips into practice can improve your game from its very foundations. Give them a try!  Photo by Daniel Stenholm on Unsplash  Golf may seem like an easy, relaxed sport. But if you want to take it a step... Read more
Are We There Yet? | High School Football In Search Of Normalcy
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
Leave The Clipboard | New Football Coaches Adjust To Changed Landscape
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
California Coaches Join West Coast Colleagues In Restart Push
California Coaches Join West Coast Coaching Alliance In Hopes To Inform, Lobby Local & State Officials Regarding Sports Restart • We’ve reached the point where California coaches know they need more than trending hashtags to be heard.  There’s less than four weeks remaining before the CIF’s Dec. 7 start... Read more
California’s Top Wrestler Rankings – September 2020
Feature image: 120 – RICHARD FIGUEROA (Selma, CS, 12) 3x California State Champion/#1 Nation California’s Top Wrestler Rankings by Open Mat are contributed by SportStars INSIDER, Al Fontes of The California Wrestler. Rankings by Weight Class 106 – Aden Valencia (Ann Sobrato, CC, 9) #4 106 – Isaiah Quintero... Read more