SAN JOSE — For the second time in less than a week, a high-profile Bay Area high school football coach has stepped down for an out-of-state position. Sione Ta’ufo’ou is leaving Archbishop Mitty for a coaching job under former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer at Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, Tennessee. Offensive... 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

Detroit Tigers Take Former Casa Grande High Slugger Spencer Torkelson No. 1 Overall As Seven Former NorCal Standouts Are Chosen In Five-Round MLB Draft • The two-day 2020 MLB Draft started with a bang for local fans as Case Grande-Petaluma’s Spencer Torkelson was drafted first overall by the Detroit Tigers... 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

An exhaustive compilation of CIF State Wrestling Medal Count Since 1973 (Individual Champions from California schools) by Al Fontes- Editor, The California Wrestler. Feature image: Clovis High School (CS) Holds the CIF State Record of 177 Medals since 1973. The most wrestling champions crowned in State history. But several schools... Read more

Campolindo Junior Emmanuel Callas Adds To The #NeverStop Project By Sharing About 16 Months Of Basketball Ups And Downs — And Embracing One’s Role • My name is Emmanuel Callas. I play basketball for the Campolindo Cougars in Moraga. This is a story about disappointment, hard work, perseverance and winning... Read more

SportStars’ 10 Year Anniversary Project Continues With Its Boys Wrestling Big 10 — The Magazine’s Top 10 NorCal Boys Wrestlers Of The Past 10 Seasons • Welcome to the SportStars’ Boys Wrestling BIG 10.  This is an installation of our Big 10 Project: A 10-months-long anniversary project to celebrate what... Read more

No State Champs Were Crowned In 2020, But Our All-NorCal Boys Basketball Teams Still Highlight Plenty Of Championship-Level Talent • Meet the SportStars’ All-NorCal Boys Basketball teams from the 2019-20 season. Only five players can play on the floor at a time. And we stick to that rule. So here... Read more

De La Salle Multi-Sport Standout Vince Bianchina Continues Our #NeverStop Project With An Ode To Teammate And Friend, Charles McAdoo • Throughout my four years at De La Salle, I have built many relationships with coaches, teammates and friends that will last forever. There have been plenty of ups and... Read more

Anthony Susac-SportStar of the Week! In what might possibly have been the last big NorCal baseball matchup of the 2020 season, SportStars’ No. 2-ranked Jesuit hosted No. 1 De La Salle-Concord on March 12. Susac spun six sterling innings and struck out nine as the Marauders defeated the Spartans, 4-1.... Read more

SportStars’ Wrestling Guru, Ike Dodson, Runs Down Each Division Listing Favorites As Well As NorCal’s Top Contenders, Dark Horses • 2020 CIF Wrestling Preview The walls of Mechanics Banks (formerly Rabobank) Arena will soon be singing the sweet melody of state championship wrestling. Thursday’s pigtail rounds open 28 brackets in... Read more

2020 EBAL (East Bay Athletic League) Wrestling Championship Finals, by SportStars INSIDER, Al (Coach) Fontes, editor of The California Wrestler. Get SportStars NorCal wrestling rankings here: SportStars Wrestler Rankings (106-145) and SportStars Wrestler Rankings (152-285).   TOP 3 EBAL WRESTLING TEAM FINALS 1 – De La Salle (Feature image: 152... Read more