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NorCal Football Rankings | Top 20, WEEK 16
Grant Finally Cracks The NorCal Football Rankings And The Top 5 Are Likely Locked Into Their Final Spots As We Reach State Bowl Week • A fascinating NorCal championship weekend played partly in pretty awful conditions, gave us results that has probably led us to our final Top 5... Read more
7 Friday Night Podcast | Ep. 2.34: The Bell Tolls For All
A Full Week Of CIF State Championship Shows Begins As 7 Friday Night Offers A Jam-Packed NorCal Finals Review & Welcomes Bellarmine Senior Ben Pfaff • PICTURED ABOVE: Pittsburg Coach Victor Galli Is Carried By Players Following The Pirates’ Div. 1-A NorCal Win Over Manteca. (Chace Bryson photo) It’s... Read more
How Fitting | Grant Football Proves Return To Championship Form
Quarterback Joseph McCray Accounted For 3 TDs As Grant Football Punched Its Ticket Back To The CIF State Bowls With Rout Of El Cerrito • PICTURED ABOVE: Grant High QB Joseph McCray Embraces A Coach As The Pacers Celebrate Their 36-7 Win At El Cerrito. (Ben Enos photos) Carl... Read more
7 Friday Night Podcast | Ep. 2.33: Thursday Pick ‘Em (CIF Regionals)
It’s The Final Week Of True NorCal Football Picks, And The 7 Friday Night Crew Offers Analysis & Picks On 10 Different Regional Showdowns • The stakes are higher for everyone now as the season moves past sections and into NorCal regional bowl playoffs — and that goes for... Read more
Noa Way But Up | Alani Noa, Grant Football Plot Return To Prominence
Led By USC-Bound Lineman Alani Noa, Grant Is Building From The Inside Out As The Long-Respected Sac-Joaquin Section Power Looks To Rise From A Five-Year Swoon • PICTURED ABOVE: Grant senior lineman, Alani Noa. (Ike Dodson photos) To resurrect one of the most storied football programs in Northern California... Read more
7 Friday Night Podcast | Ep. 2.2: Game Week In The Sac-Joaquin Section
Reporter Ike Dodson Joins The Show To Help Offer A Primer On The Sac-Joaquin Section As It Opens Its Season This Friday • With real, live football action set to begin in the Sac-Joaquin Section, hosts Chace Bryson and Ben Enos welcome fellow SportStars writer/photographer Ike Dodson for a... Read more
Final NorCal Boys Basketball Rankings | 2021-22
Modesto Christian’s 30-Win Season, Regional Open Title Secure Crusaders The Top Spot In Our Final NorCal Boys Basketball Rankings • PICTURED ABOVE: Div. II State Champions, No. 12 Elk Grove . (David Gershon photo) Final NorCal Boys Basketball Rankings. Previous rank in parenthesis 1. (1) Modesto Christian (30-6) Crusaders... Read more
SportStars’ 2021 All-NorCal Offense
The SportStars All-NorCal Team Is Selected As One 54-Man Roster — These Are The 27 Guys Who Make Up Our All-NorCal Offense • WANT MORE ALL-NORCAL FOOTBALL COVERAGE?NorCal Player Of The Year: Tyler Tremain, QB, FolsomNorCal Defensive Player Of The Year: Zeke Berry, DB, De La Salle-ConcordAll-NorCal DefenseNorCal Offensive... Read more
Bishop O’Dowd Believes | SportStars’ RETURN TO FALL Football Preview Series No. 1
Young Nucleus Of Talented Skill Players Has Bishop O’Dowd Thinking Big Things For 2021; PLUS: Liberty’s Nate Bell: The Dual Threat QB In The Shadows • This is the first of 20 installments to our Return To Fall Series — a daily component to our 2021 NorCal Football Preview... Read more
2021 NorCal Football Preview | Return To Fall Series
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
Final NorCal Girls Basketball Rankings | Spring ’21
Pinewood Closes Out Perfect Season To Overtake No. 1 In Our Final NorCal Girls Basketball Rankings • Spring 2021 Final NorCal Girls Basketball Rankings. Previous rank in parenthesis. (TOP PHOTO: Pinewood Girls Basketball/Twitter) 1. (2) Pinewood-Los Altos Hills (17-0) Even though only one Northern California section had a postseason,... Read more
SportStars’ Overall Boys Athlete Big 10 | NorCal’s Best Male Athletes (’11-’20)
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... Read more