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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

2021 Preseason NorCal Top 20 Football Rankings

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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

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

2021 NorCal Football Preview | Return To Fall Series

Central Coast Section High School Football North Coast Section Northern Section Oakland Section Sac-Joaquin Section July 24, 2021 0

SportStars’ Return To Fall Series Is A Daily Collection Of NorCal Football Preview Content Highlighting Teams, Players, Rankings And More • From Aug. 6-26, the staff at SportStars Magazine will be celebrating football’s return to fall by working together to produce a daily collection of preview content from throughout... Read more

LIST: NorCal Olympians (Tokyo 2020/21)

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Wondering How Many Current Olympians Graduated From NorCal High Schools? This Might Be The List You’re Looking For • TOP PHOTO: Drew Holland, Men’s Water Polo, Miramonte-Orinda ’14 With every Olympics it’s fun to root for Team USA. It’s even more fun when you know the specific athletes are... Read more

Final NorCal Baseball Rankings | 2021

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WCAL Reigns Supreme As Valley Christian Plays Its Way To A CCS Title And Another No. 1 Finish In Our Final NorCal Baseball Rankings • Final NorCal Baseball Rankings For 2021. Previous rank in parenthesis. (TOP PHOTO: Valley Christian celebrates its CCS Open title on June 19; photo by... Read more

Final NorCal Softball Rankings | 2021

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St. Francis Left Zero Doubt Over Its Credentials To Be The Top Team In Our Final NorCal Softball Rankings Of 2021 • Final NorCal Softball Rankings For 2021. Previous rank in parenthesis. (TOP PHOTO: Tayler Biehl of No. 15 Vista del Lago-Folsom; James K. Leash photo) 1. (1) St.... Read more

California Coaches Join West Coast Colleagues In Restart Push

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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

Central Coast Section Central Section High School Wrestling Pinned by TCW Los Angeles City Section North Coast Section Northern Section Oakland Section Rankings Sac-Joaquin Section San Diego Section San Francisco Section Southern Section September 30, 2020 0

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

Bryson: What If CIF Needs A Plan B For 2020-21?

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SportStars Magazine Editor Chace Bryson Shares A Few Ideas For Some CIF Calendar Tweaks If Infection Numbers Don’t Look Much Better Come Halloween • This column first appeared in the August 2020 issue of SportStars Magazine. So it’s time to wait a little longer for fall sports, it seems. ... Read more

Deep Punt | CIF Sports Sidelined Until Mid-December

Central Coast Section High School Football High School Sports Features North Coast Section Northern Section Oakland Section Sac-Joaquin Section San Francisco Section July 21, 2020 0

In Light Of State’s Recent COVID Resurgence, CIF And Majority Of Its 10 Sections Shift To Two-Season Format Running From Mid-December To Late June • In the end, it’s a road map. A set goal. Really, that’s the best way to view Monday’s news that CIF sports will be... Read more

Bryson’s First Pitch: Resorting To Imagination

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Bryson’s First Pitch July 2020: The sports dimmer switch is dialed all the way up. Just when we thought we were out, it pulled us back in. As coronavirus cases rise throughout the state, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom scales back that sports “dimmer switch”, the July 20 target... Read more