State’s No. 16 team making conscious effort to mix it up and develop other weapons besides nation’s No. 1-ranked running back. The Panthers revved it up for 46 points in the first half and went on to beat Lincoln of Stockton on Friday.
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Preseason All-State FB Teams
We have 30 written up as first team with 30 more picked on a list for second team. We hope the annual all-state team at the end of the season matches this one closely and that no one doesn’t make it due to injury. Two juniors are one first team and two also are on...
Preseason State Super 50 (Part 2)
This group of teams starting at No. 13 is led off by St. Mary’s of Stockton, which is loaded with returning players, but 2016 CIF Division II-A titlist Del Oro of Loomis is right behind. This group down to No. 25 also includes our top preseason top picks for the CIF Central Coast Section and […]
Preseason All-NCS Football Team
There’s only one from De La Salle on first team and the talent in the section is among its best ever, including the top-ranked running back in the U.S. No one doubts the Spartans, though, are still favored in the first Open Division section playoff. Still, the elite players on some of the other teams […]
State FB Record Updates (Part 1)
Over the next month, through the opening weekend of the 2016 football season and probably beyond, we’re going to be mixing in updates to various state football records with all of the other preseason content. For the first part of this series, we did winning streaks, losing streaks, team scoring and more. Go inside for...
More State Boys Athletes of Year
Among others earning top state honors are Najee Harris of Antioch (juniors), U.S. Olympian Ben Hallock of Harvard-Westlake (Division III) and Andrew Daschbach of Sacred Heart Prep (Division IV). Alexander Mattison of San Bernardino also is third-ever State Three-Sport Athlete of the Year. Finally, what would a State Athlete of the Year package be without […]
Antioch Football History Highlights
Our third school of the summer featured in this series in which we compile its all-time football scores archive also goes back more than 100 years. Antioch may not quite yet have 500 reported wins, but interest in the Panthers heading into a season may be the highest its ever been in all of those […]
Class of ’17 FB Player Rankings (Summer)
Najee Harris (Antioch), Darnay Holmes (Calabasas) & Wyatt Davis (St. John Bosco) seem to be a solid top three as the state’s top college football prospects from the Class of 2017 get ready for elite events, such as The Opening in Beaverton, Oregon. Since the end of the last football season, however, there have been...
SportStars Mag Ranks Bay’s Best
Welcome to the fourth annual Bay Area 75 — SportStars’ countdown of the top 75 Bay Area athletes from the 2015-16 school year. The only criteria used in generating the list were that the athletes must be from one of the nine Bay Area counties, and they must have played in a sport which culminated […]
NorCal Nike Regional: TEs & a DB
After collecting opinions as well as observations during Sunday’s Nike Football The Opening NorCal regional, it’s a great group of tight ends for the upcoming California season. It was a defensive back, however, who may have stole the show.
