SportStar Of The Week | Pittsburg | Football | Senior • The Pirates senior running back continued his monster start to the season on Sept. 9 when he rushed for 379 yards and four touchdowns to lift Pittsburg to a 48-25 win over visiting Serra-San Mateo. Thompson wasted no time...
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Despite a weird affinity for curling, I’ve always been more of a Summer Olympics guy. Certainly part of it has to do with the region I grew up. Lots of sun. Not a ton of winter sports to experiment in beyond the occasional ski trip to Mt. Lassen (when it...
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By MARK TENNIS | Special To SportStars This year’s family vacation had a definite San Francisco Giants’ theme with four games seen in a two-week span, but it was watching a different Giants’ game on the tube that brought the biggest smile to my face. Sure, the Giants struggled mightily...
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SportStar Of The Week | De La Salle-
Concord | Golf | Senior (2016) • Building off the momentum he established during a phenomenal postseason for the Spartans this spring, McCarthy recently qualified for the PGA Web.com Tour’s Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae taking place from July 28-31 in Hayward....
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After waiting most of her childhood, Danielle Williams is making her mark at Amador Valley
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Baseball is one of the great equalizing sports. Especially at the
high school level. A team may be better than its opponent over the course of a season, but one strong outing from a good pitcher “” or an abnormally bad outing by one “” can tilt the scale on any...
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THRILLING 30: Our first, second and third teams for boys and girls 2015-16 SportStars All-NorCal Basketball Teams BOYS FIRST TEAM PLAYER OF THE YEAR SOLOMON YOUNG | 6-7, Forward | Sacramento | Sr. The Dragons’ big man led Sacramento to a 30-win campaign that included a Sac-Joaquin Section Div. II...
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To win a championship in a sport as rough as rugby, you need players as tough as granite. Story by Jim Zelinski; Photos by Dan Bandoni. Courtesy of Sports Today Prevailing over a field of the country’s top 24 teams, the Granite Bay Rugby Club has won the national
high school boys...
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When did May get here? Weren’t we just writing about our All-NorCal football teams and previewing baseball and softball? For whatever reason, it often feels like no
high school sporting season goes by faster than spring. As a sports writer, it always feels like we emerge from the basketball state...
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HAVE BALL, WILL TRAVEL: If your neighborhood doesn’t have an oversized youth sports facility, it’s falling behind the times. Welcome to SportsPlex Nation! Outside it’s an unseasonably warm January weekday afternoon in Walnut Creek. But Mike Samuels is inside. And happy to be there. Samuels is showing off the brand...
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Published in Issue #113 / March 2016 Hello sports fans! Welcome to spring. As I write this, the sun is blazing through my office window from a pleasant 71 degree afternoon in
Concord. I’m wearing shorts and a t-shirt. All of which makes it only feel right that...
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