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SportStars Vault | The Night The Pirates Stole The Show
With The ’91 Pittsburg Football Team Going Into The Pittsburg FB Hall Of Fame This Weekend, We Dug Up Our 2011 Feature On That Famous Win • EDITOR’S NOTE: This Article First Appeared In SportStars #37 On Dec. 8, 2011, Marking The 20th Anniversary Of Pittsburg’s 1991 Win Over... Read more
SportStars’ 2022 All-NorCal Offense
We Want The Ball, And We’re Gonna Score — These Are The 27 Players We’ve Picked As The 2022 SportStars All-NorCal Offense • PICTURED ABOVE: San Ramon Valley-Danville QB Luke Baker (Chace Bryson photo) There are no first-teams or second-teams when it comes to the SportStars All-NorCal Team. We... Read more
SportStars’ 2022 All-NorCal Defense
These Are The 27 Guys We’re Lining Up Against Any Offense Who Dares — This Is The 2022 SportStars All-NorCal Defense • PICTURED ABOVE: Folsom Senior DB, Greco Carrillo (David Gershon photo) There are no first-teams or second-teams when it comes to the SportStars All-NorCal Team. We build it... Read more
He’s The Captain Now | A Look At The New Pittsburg Football Coach
Charlie Ramirez Is The First New Pittsburg Football Coach In 21 Years — His Own High School Coach And Former Players Share What To Expect • It was part high-step, part strut and pure emotional release. Charlie Ramirez stormed up the sideline away from a Pittsburg High defense celebrating another... Read more
7 Friday Night Podcast | Eps. 2.36 & 2.37: CIF State Bowl Instant Reactions
7 Friday Night Hosts Share Thoughts & Search For Positives In Late Night Recordings From NorCal’s Long Weekend At CIF Bowls In Mission Viejo PICTURED ABOVE: Pittsburg Senior Zack Card Leads Pittsburg High On To The Field Saturday. (Ben Enos photo) Saddleback College in Mission Viejo was a place... Read more
Bitter End | Pittsburg Football, Coach Victor Galli Denied Hollywood Finish
Liberty-Bakersfield Tops Pittsburg Football In The CIF 1-A State Bowl As The Sun Officially Sets On Coach Galli’s Excellent 21-Year Career Sometimes the storybook ending isn’t a happy one. Sometimes the final chapter delivers a cruel twist. And that’s the ending the Pittsburg football team was dealt on Saturday... Read more
7 Friday Night Podcast | Ep. 2.35: State Bowls Preview (w/ Mark Tennis)
Pick ‘Em Season Is Over At 7 Friday Night; This Thursday We Simply Chat State Championship Football With Our Friends At CalHiSports.Com • PICTURED ABOVE: The View From Inside Saddleback College The Day Before Games Begin. (Mitch Stephens photo/Scorebooklive.com) The 7 Friday Night CIF State Championships Mega-Week rolls on... Read more
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
7 Friday Night Podcast | Ep. 2.32: Dogged Pursuit
It’s A Post-Thanksgiving, Very-Full Episode Of Championship Football Talk As The 7 Friday Night Team Welcomes Folsom Coach Paul Doherty • This episode is an appropriate one to follow the Thanksgiving holiday, because it’s stuffed! 7 Friday Night hosts Chace Bryson and Ben Enos revisit a wild weekend of... Read more
One More Chapter | Pittsburg Football Takes NCS Crown, Keeps Coach’s Final Ride Going
Suffocating Defense And Big Receiver Play Lift Pittsburg Football Over Clayton Valley, Adding At Least One More Game To Victor Galli’s Tenure • Back on Nov. 1, when Pittsburg football coach Victor Galli announced that his 21st season leading the Pirates would be his last, a narrative began that... Read more
Moving On | Campolindo Surives Rancho Cotate; De La Salle Crowned Again
Campolindo Football Advances To North Coast Section Div. II Final After Instant Classic With Rancho Cotate; DLS Tops Pittsburg For Open Title • PICTURED ABOVE: Campolindo QB Dashiell Weaver Looks For Running Room On Friday. He Accounted For Nearly 400 Total Yards Passing & Rushing. (Ben Enos photos) One... Read more