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High School cagers get serious as the basketball season heats up The St. Mary's Stockton Rams girls basketball team stepped away from their league schedule to get a little taste of what life will be like once the CIF state playoffs began. The Rams, ranked number 1 in the nation by ESPN, among others, went up against an up and coming Berkeley High team looking to make a statement. They did by jumping out to a 12pt first half lead on St. Mary's by doing something very few teams have been able to do in the past ten years. Beat the Rams press. To make matters worse, Chelsea Gray twisted her ankle in the first quarter and had to leave the game. St. Mary's bounced back going on a 19-5 run over the last part of the second quarter and the first part of the third to win 72-61. More click here St. Mary's gets a split after a big weekend of WCC action at home last weekend The Gaels gave it their best shot Saturday night as Gonzaga came through for their annual visit to Moraga. The Zags came away with a big win behind 31pts and 13-rebounds from super frosh Elias Harris to stay atop the WCC. St. Mary's overcame a slow first half to lit the nets on fire in the second half of their 77-72 victory against a Portland team that has designs of a WCC title of their own. More click here
Stanford men show signs of life against LA teams Maybe there is a light at the end of that tunnel for the Stanford men's basketball team who are fresh off a sweep of the Los Angeles schools over the weekend. The Cardinal shook off a pounding at the hands of the Cal Bears in the league opener for both to post wins over USC and UCLA to improve to 2-1 in the Pac 10. More click here
Are they really this bad ? The New Jersey Nets made NBA history by losing their 18-straight game to open a season when they fell 117-101 to the Dallas Mavericks. The score was a lot closer then the game was. Dallas shot an NBA record 80% from the field in the first half of the game, making an amazing 17 of 19 shots from the field in the second quarter. New Jersey passed the record set by the 1988-09 Miami Heat and the 1999-00 Los Angeles Clippers. How did they sink so far so fast. New Jersey has not been a title contender for a few years now, but who could see this coming. New Jersey is not even in the same solar system as the NBA's top teams. More click here
Monte Vista second half surge continues with a 48-19 pounding of Berkeley High, Round two a bad day for #1 seeds in prep football playoffs Berkeley High came into their NCS D1 playoff match up against Monte Vista with one of the best defense's, statistically, in the bay area. and the bay's top rusher (Ricky Gavin) Monte Vista boosted the best passer (Brett Nottingham) and best wide receiver (Bryce McGovern, below) in the bay.
McGovern now has 100-receptions and 1,987-yards receiving on the year. It was more then enough to get past Berkeley who could not get anything going after a first quarter drive got them into the end zone. That score answered a Monte Vista touchdown, but Berkeley High missed the extra point to make it a 7-6 Monte Vista lead and it was all Monte Vista after that. Nottingham finished off a 80-yard drive with a one yard touchdown run the first time Monte Vista had the ball. Berkeley High came right back, running the ball for 77-yards of a 90-yard drive that was finished off with a Logan Murdock to Ashton Collins 13-yard TD pass. More click here
NFL season heats up as playoffs near It has been quite a season so far in the NFL. Drew brees got things rolling with nine touchdowns passes in the New Orleans Saints first two games (a NFL record) and the Saints have not looked back. The Saints and Indianapolis Colts are the last two unbeaten teams left in the NFL. Both have ridden the play of the two best quarterbacks in the NFL, Brees and the Colts QB Peyton Manning. They are playing like Super Bowl contenders. New Orleans had a little trouble with the woeful St. Louis Rams two weeks ago beating them 28-23 behind two touchdowns from Reggie Bush. The Saints breezed by the New England Patriots last Monday night 38-17 in perhaps New Orleans best played game of the season. The Colts, on the other hand have been here before. In fact Indy has won 20-regular season games in a row, just one short of the NFL record held by the team the Colts beat a few weeks ago, the New England Patriots. The last time Indy lost during the regular season was Oct. 17th. against 2008 when they lost to Tennessee. As fate would have it that is who the Colts take on this Sunday. Tennessee has been reborn since Vince Young was reinserted into starting line at the quarterback position and opening day starter Kerry Collins was benched after a 0-6 start to the 2009 season. All Young has done is go 5-0 since his return to the starting line up and the Titans are right back in the thick of the wildcard race to make the playoffs this year. More click here
San Francisco waltz's past St. Louis The 49ers played host to one of the worst teams in the NFL Sunday and they did just what they were supposed to do. Blow the Rams out.
The 49ers are sitting pretty at the top of the division with a quarter of the season in the books. The shutout was San Francisco's first in over six years and the 49ers D was completely dominating, never letting the Rams get anything going on offense. More click here
Football is back, well sort of Yes it was only the first pre season game for both the Oakland Raiders and San Francisco 49ers. They can be pretty bland games. The starters play long enough to break a sweat before getting their helmets and shoulder pads taken away on their way to the bench. Football starved fans get a chance to release some long pent up emotions while checking out the new players and rookies their team signed in the off season. Both bay area teams won their pre season openers. The Raiders pounded Dallas 31-10 while the 49ers survived a late two-point try to get past Denver 17-16. The score did not matter. What did matter was a quarterback battle in San Francisco and a rookie wide receiver getting his feet wet in Oakland. More click here
Marion Bartoli outlast a mimi major field to claim 2009 bank of the West Classic Stanford Ca.
She has come a long ways from the small farming village in the middle of France. Marion Bartoli is now one of the best female tennis players in the world after knocking off Venus Williams 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 at Stanford University. The game's biggest names took their shot at the Bank of the West Classic, Maria Sharapova, Venus and Serena Williams, Jelena Jankovic, Elena Dementieva and Samantha Stosar all made sure Bartoli earned her first place check. Photo's click here
NBA Hopefuls get ready for a different world The Los Angeles hoped they took a big step towards getting out of the lottery and into the NBA Playoffs when they selected Blake Griffin with the first pick of the 2009 NBA Draft. Memphis took Hasheem Thabeet second, Oklahoma City went with James Harden and Sacramento follow that with Tyreke Evens and the 2009 NBA Draft was on. Memphis needs help all over the place. They did hit the jackpot, drafting O.J. Mayo last year. If Thabeet can turn into a solid big man the Grizzles could move out of the lottery in a year or two. Oklahoma City has a lot to gain in this draft. Kevin Durant is all they hoped he would be when the then Seattle Supersonic's took him first overall out of Texas in the 2007 Draft. Kevin now has James Harden to go along with Michael Westbrook. More click here
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Neither had what you would call big games, Nottingham threw for 267-yards, but he did connect for three touchdowns and Bryce had 116-yards receiving and a score. 
