It’s Our Annual Weight-By-Weight Breakdown Preview Of The CIF State Wrestling Championships. Who Is NorCal’s Best Hope? Who Could Bracket-bust? • Seeds schmeeds. No matter where wrestlers landed in the 14 40-man brackets at the CIF State Wrestling Championships, they have the scrambler’s chance to victory. It’s what makes the... Read more

FINAL RANKINGS: We Close Out The 2018 Season With An Expanded Top 30 After NorCal Teams Won 10 Of 15 CIF State Bowls • NorCal Final Football Rankings  1. (1)  —  De La Salle-Concord   12-1 COMMENT: Finishes As CIF Open runner-up to Mater Dei-Santa Ana; had wins over No. 2 Folsom and... Read more

Senior Quarterback Carson Jarratt Flashed His “Clutch” Superpower To Lead The Golden Eagles Into The CIF 2-AA State Bowl Championship • Carson Jarratt wears a Del Oro football uniform. It does not include a cape. The senior quarterback poised to lead the Golden Eagles into Friday’s CIF Division 2-AA State... Read more

Matthew Smart, Del Oro-Loomis — Football — Senior Wide Receiver Matthew Smart, the 6-foot-2 wide receiver caught three passes for 173 yards and scored both touchdowns. This as the Golden Eagles came from behind to beat visiting St. Francis-Mountain View 14-13 in the CIF 2-AA Northern California Bowl Championship game on... 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

YEALIMI NOH • Golf – Concord  For the second time in her high school golf career, Yealimi Noh, now 17, takes home SportStar of the Week honors. The 17-year-old Noh, and former Carondelet High student turned home-schooler, is making a very recent case to be the best junior girls golf amateur... Read more

Our Preseason Rollout Of The NorCal Top 20 Football Rankings Won’t Surprise At The Top, But Offers Plenty To Debate As You Move Down The List • Here it is, our full 2018 Preseason NorCal Top 20 Football Rankings. 1. De La Salle-Concord (11-2) Perhaps Northern California’s best defense, the... Read more

We Reveal Our Annual Ranked Countdown Of The Bay Area Athletes Of The Year For The 2017-18 School Year • Below are the first 55 athletes from our sixth annual Bay Area 75 — SportStars’ rankings of the top 75 Bay Area athletes of the year from 2017-18. We’ll be... Read more

We Wrap Up The 2018 Season With Our All-NorCal Softball Teams, Led By Player Of The Year Rachel Cid And Pitcher Of The Year Vanessa Strong • NORCAL SOFTBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR Rachel Cid, Tracy, Sr. (Pictured above) NORCAL SOFTBALL PITCHER OF THE YEAR Vanessa Strong, Freedom-Oakley, Sr. FIRST TEAM... Read more

We Wrap Up The 2018 Season With Our All-NorCal Baseball Teams, Led By Player Of The Year Evan Gibbons And Pitcher Of The Year Joshua Seward • NORCAL BASEBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR Evan Gibbons, Franklin-Elk Grove, Sr. (Pictured above) NORCAL BASEBALL PITCHER OF THE YEAR Joshua Seward, Archbishop Mitty-San... Read more

Paced By A Record-Breaking Offense, De La Salle Baseball Thundered Its Way To A Third Consecutive NCS Division I Crown • When a baseball team outscores its four North Coast Section playoff opponents by a combined 42-3, something exceptional is happening. How special? This finish came from likely the most... Read more

NorCal Boys Player Of The Year, James Akinjo Of Salesian-Richmond, Leads Our 2017-18 All-NorCal Basketball Selections • CLICK HERE for All-NorCal Girls Selections NORCAL PLAYER OF THE YEAR James Akinjo, Salesian-Richmond, Sr. Longtime Salesian varsity boys basketball coach Bill Mellis has had his share of gym rats over the years. ... Read more