For The Magazine’s 10th Anniversary Issue, SportStars Continued Its Big 10 Series With The Overall Boys Big 10 —NorCal’s Best Male Athletes Of The Past Decade • The Overall Boys Athlete Big 10 is an installation of the SportStars Big 10 Project: A 10-months-long anniversary project celebrating the magazine’s 10-year... Read more

For Its 10th Anniversary Issue, SportStars Staff Members And Longtime Contributors Share Their Memories And Favorites From The Magazine’s First Decade Of Publishing • On June 12, we released our 10th Anniversary issue. One of the cornerstones of the content were various staff accounts of their memories and favorites from... Read more

#CoverMadness Championship: A Fan-Powered Tournament To Select The Top Cover From SportStars Magazine’s First Decade Results In Co-Champions After More Than 185K Votes • SportStars will turn 10-years old on June 10, which has us feeling quite nostalgic. So for part of our celebration, our editor and production manager sifted through... Read more

#CoverMadness, SportStars’ Fan-Powered Tournament To Select The Top Cover From The Magazine’s First Decade Has Reached The Final Four — And Its Time To Vote • SportStars will turn 10-years old on June 10, which has us feeling quite nostalgic. So far part of our celebration, our editor and production... Read more

Rob Sutton set his sights on another golden year. And 2019 is shaping up to be just that for Quick 6 Football 7-on-7 championship series — GOLDEN GREAT in the golden state! Being a middle school or high school football player nowadays means more than just showing up for tryouts... Read more

Defense Wins Championships — And In The Bay Area Particularly This Season — It Will Be Leading To Major Scholarships As Well • It wasn’t very long ago that every football recruiting reporter in the country had to keep his or her eyes and ears focused on the Bay Area... Read more

Freedom-Oakley’s Dynamic Running Back Turned Coaches Comments Into A Quick Decision — Now Giles Jackson Is NorCal’s Most Coveted Slot Receiver Recruit • It wasn’t a questionable gamble when Giles Jackson chose to run routes as a slot receiver during various spring and early summer football showcase events. The senior... Read more

Vaki leads Liberty HS to their 1st NCS Championship Photo Credits:  Phillip Walton and Ben Martin. Beautiful football weather on a Saturday night here at Heritage HS in Brentwood to see a football rematch between Liberty Lions vs. Freedom Falcons. Who will win their first NCS Championship? I came to... Read more

Four-Star Receiver Isaah Crocker Is Newest Inderkum Star To Embrace The Task Of Landing Program Its First SJS Title• Story By JIM MCCUE | Photos By JAMES K. LEASH At Inderkum High School, there are expectations. High expectations year in and year out. That’s what winning at least 10 games... Read more

Alas, it’s here. Our labor of love, and admittedly my favorite issue to work on every year. This is the eighth edition of our Football Preview, and I feel like it gets better each time we do it. This year we added our newest wrinkle, adding a Southern California edition... Read more

Well, there’s summer in the rearview mirror. It’s shorter every year. But unlike some of you athletes who may be groaning at a return to the books, the calendar’s turn to August fires us up. Now is when we get to really dig in to the upcoming football season and... Read more

You’re at the the last of four segments. If you haven’t seen the previous entries, then you’re a total cheater and should feel shame. Then do the right thing and go read up on the 70 athletes you skipped: Nos. 75-51 / Nos. 50-26  / Nos. 25-6   5. ALYSSA BREWER  California-San Ramon –... Read more