The inaugural Central Coast Section flag football seeding meeting was held Thursday at the CCS offices in San Jose. Of the 32 teams in four brackets – Open, along with Division I, II and III — more than a quarter of them are from San Mateo County.

The Burlingame boys’ water polo team came into the week with a chance to win a Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division tile.

With the postseason on the line, South City delivered.

After having their streak of four straight league titles snapped last season, the Los Gatos Wildcats are back on top in the Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division with one week remaining in the regular season.

In the wake of a decisive 37-0 victory to clinch his program’s highest standing league championship since 2004, Woodside head coach Justin Andrews delivered his team a heartfelt and spontaneous message.

Much like the Peninsula Athletic League girls’ golf championship, the West Bay Athletic League’s individual tournament became a match-play event between the top two golfers coming down the stretch.

FRIDAY

After running the table in the West Bay Athletic League Foothill Division, the Sacred Heart Prep Gators are returning to the Central Coast Section Open Division volleyball tournament.

WEDNESDAY

Any team, regardless of the sport, that is absent one of its best players is simply not as strong.

Menlo-Atherton (2-1 PAL Bay, 3-5) at Los Gatos (3-0, 5-3) , 7:30 p.m.

Throughout the offseason, 95.7 The Game, the radio home for the Golden State Warriors, had a bit it called “Kuminga Crisis” — in which the deep-voiced speaker would put echo on each word, along with laser-beam sounds and various other hyping tones.

TUESDAY

Many a Peninsula Athletic League girls’ golf individual championship round has come down to the final hole at Poplar Creek Golf Course.

With only two weeks of regular-season play remaining, there is, finally, the first change of the season at the top of the JC Athletic Bureau’s poll for the California Community College Football Coaches Association. Golden West College and Ventura College, both 8-0, are tied for first place t…

TUESDAY

In order to three-peat at their host NorCal Invitational Water Polo Tournament, the Sacred Heart Prep Gators had to win three grinders in a row.

Yianni Fitzgerald, San Mateo football. The senior fullback and middle linebacker made his presence felt on both sides of the ball in a 35-21 win over Carlmont. Offensively, he rushed for 84 yards and two touchdowns on just six carries, going 55 yards on his second carry of the game. On defen…

Is anyone really surprised by the gambling scandal in the NBA? Last week, several current and former NBA players, including basketball hall of famer and now-suspended Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups, have been caught in both performance manipulation and mob-related, rigged …

LOS ANGELES — Freddie Freeman homered leading off the bottom of the 18th inning, Shohei Ohtani went deep twice in another record-setting performance and the Los Angeles Dodgers outlasted the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 on Monday night in a World Series classic.

Tony Vitello and Andy Runyan were driving north to then Pac Bell Park. Teammates in the old California Coastal League, their Salinas Packers collegiate summer team had an off day on Monday, June 25, 2001, so they decided to make the trip to watch the San Francisco Giants take on the rival Lo…

It’s been nearly four years since the College of San Mateo Bulldogs lost a home game. 

Menlo School senior Liam Pappalardo looked the way a high school football player should Saturday afternoon walking off Cartan Field. A stoic expression and mud splattered across his face, the two-way lineman was the epitome of leaving it all on the field.

Woodside has dominated its crosstown rivalry with Sequoia in recent years, which also fits into the theme this season, as the Wildcats have won eight straight games in dominant fashion.

Snead magic brings home championships.

The San Mateo football team has developed the reputation of run, run and run the ball some more as the offense moves methodically down the field. Taking 13, 14 plays, eating six, seven minutes off the clock and bludgeon opposing defenses into submission.

By virtue of one individual match win, Woodside girls’ tennis (13-1 PAL Bay, 14-1 overall) qualified for the Peninsula Athletic League Team Tournament with a 7-0 home victory Thursday over Westmoor (3-11 PAL Ocean).

The Mills Vikings (10-3 PAL Ocean, 16-15 overall) have separated themselves in the Peninsula Athletic League Ocean Division volleyball standings, locking up sole possession of second place in the standings with a 18-25, 25-22, 25-21, 25-13 home win Thursday over El Camino (9-4, 10-9).

THURSDAY

This Terra Nova football program is not like your grandfather’s — or your father’s, for that matter.

FRIDAY

When John Kaitz took over as the high school boys’ coach for the Redwood City-based NorCal Crew club, he wanted his rowers to raise their level, expectations and goals.

WEDNESDAY

Despite having dominated the rivalry with Menlo School for nearly two decades, Sacred Heart Prep boys’ water polo coach Brian Kreutzkamp has always given the Knights the respect they deserve and the Gators have never gone into a match overlooking Menlo.

THURSDAY

When rule changes to flag football were implemented for the 2025 season, there was a mixture of excitement and a little bit of trepidation.

TUESDAY

There was an inordinate amount of downtime between the first and second sets of Capuchino’s bid to wrap up the outright PAL Ocean Division volleyball championship Tuesday at San Mateo.

The Aragon and Carlmont girls’ golf teams have run the Peninsula Athletic League’s Bay Division for the last three seasons. The two shared the Bay Division crown in 2022 and 2024, with Carlmont winning the title outright in 2022.

MONDAY

The Menlo-Atherton flag football team has come a long way in a short time. Sitting out the inaugural 2023 season, the Bears came online last year and went 6-5 in Peninsula Athletic League play and 6-10 overall.

Daily Journal Athletes of the Week Quinlan Belen Henroid and Eden Jacobson were freaking out enough. It’s a good thing they didn’t realize Hillsdale’s whole season was riding on them.

Alex Valencia and Isaac Pech, Woodside football. Valencia, a running back, and Pech, a linebacker, were the offensive and defensive leaders, respectively, as the Wildcats stayed undefeated with a 28-14 win over Half Moon Bay. Valencia had only 29 carries as he was behind Evan Frampton and Da…

When it comes to coaching football, it’s not uncommon for a “defensive guy” to work on the offensive side of the ball and vice versa.

The state’s No. 1 defense put on a display of dominance in Los Altos Hills.

Capuchino entered play Friday night mired in a four-game losing streak, the program’s worst single-season stretch since 2017. Things looked to be going the same way early on for the Mustangs early against Mountain View, but that’s when head coach Jay Oca unleashed the air attack.

FRIDAY

Playing fundamentally sound isn’t required for entertaining football, as Serra and St. Francis demonstrated when the two West Catholic Athletic League powers renewed their rivalry Saturday at Freitas Field.

The Woodside football team had not been in a close game yet this season — until Friday night.

Burlingame running backs have been dropping like flies this season. Fortunately for the Panthers, they have depth in other areas, most notably at the interior offensive line.