Sports

The Manta water polo program had their best showing ever in the Junior Olympics in July in Irvine, as their 16-and-under team finished 17th and their 18-and-under squad placed 21st in the championship/top bracket of the Silver Division. It was a monumental achievement for...

The Gavilan College football program is in a much different place than it was a year ago. The Rams, who finished 0-10 last season and had just 31 players available in their final game of the season, enter padded practices next week with a...

It's been a long road back for A.J. Gustaveson. The incoming Live Oak High senior played one snap last year before it was discovered he had suffered a torn ACL, MCL and LCL in his right knee. Although the ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) is...

After winning the Blossom Valley League West Valley Division championship two years ago and finishing second in the division last season, the Sobrato High football team earned a promotion to the Santa Teresa Division for the upcoming season. It's a rather big step up...

The 2018-2019 high school sports season was a memorable one for Caleb Ojeda. The incoming Live Oak High junior had a breakout sophomore season, both in soccer and football. The 5-foot-10, 167-pound Ojeda established career-high marks in both sports, establishing himself as a premier...

"When you dedicate yourself to something and open your mind to different possibilities and focus on what you can do instead of what you can't do, you really can go places in this world."

Viliame "Billy" Vuniwai hopes to lead the Sobrato High football team back to the Blossom Valley League West Valley Division championship. The Bulldogs, who won the division title two years ago and finished second last season, have Vuniwai as their new coach after Tony...

When ESPN aired Rob Mendez's life story in a Sports Center Featured segment on Feb. 16, it forever changed his life. Mendez, a 31-year-old Gilroy resident who was born without arms and legs, started to get inundated with messages and requests to the point...

Not long after making history by winning two gold medals in freestyle and Greco Roman wrestling in the World Combat Games in Budapest, Hungary on June 18-19, Morgan Hill's Aden Valencia viewed those accomplishments as if they were in the rearview mirror.  "Right now I'm...

Five local youth lacrosse players are headed to Calgary to play Canada's national summer sport—and no, it's not ice hockey. It's actually lacrosse (ice hockey is designated as Canada's national winter sport). Brothers Luke and Jake Richey and brothers Nolan, Ben and Hudson Ledwith...