Sports at NorCal Courts

09/19/2025

"When I was a rookie, there were 80 jobs in professional basketball, so a lot of good players didn't make that. I said [to Michael Jordan], 'If there were twelve teams, you couldn't have won that championship. He [Jordan] said, 'Why?'. I said, 'Because Pax [John Paxson], he hits this open shot, won the game. Well, if there were twelve teams in the league, he couldn't have made that shot.' He [Jordan] said, 'Why not?' I said, 'Because he'd have been up in the stands', and that's not a knock on him, it's a talk about the quality of the NBA."

- Bill Russell

09/19/2025

The Professor 👨‍🏫

09/19/2025

GOOD NEWS💖 Scottie Scheffler spent $87,000 to save a restaurant, the same one that offered him free meals during his high school years. However, the new sign on the wall moved the owner. The restaurant had served Scottie free breakfast for three years. When he learned of the closure, he quietly repaid the debt and donated a sign that read: "A home for those who lit up my dreams every morning."

09/19/2025

09/19/2025

Clayton Kershaw had been openly flirting with retirement since the Dodgers won the World Series in 2020. The championship checked the final box on his resume for the Hall of Fame.

Now, he walks away on his own terms.

09/19/2025

09/19/2025

From The Athletic: “The Natural” is not a kids' movie, not like “Little Big League” or “The Sandlot.” The success of the film revived the genre. Much of its power came from Robert Redford's credibility as an athlete on screen. https://nyti.ms/4nDGOGx

09/19/2025

Clayton Kershaw is a World Series champion, an All Star, a Cy Young winner, NL MVP and a Dodgers legend. To his kids, he’s Dad. 💙: “Being a dad is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. My children have changed my life for the better in so many ways. But before Cali and Charley arrived, if I’m being completely honest, I have to say that I didn’t know how it was all going to work out.

Baseball is all-encompassing. And I knew that our sport wasn’t something that is particularly conducive to families.

But I was pretty nervous about it all — the travel, being away from each other for long stretches, getting sleep during the season, not having any free time … just basically everything. My mind just went to all these places, and I started worrying that everything might go poorly.

I truly believe that it’s actually been a massive positive for me to have kids while in the middle of my baseball career because it’s allowed me to put everything into perspective.

In the past, I’d come home after bad outings or big losses and just brood over the negatives for hours, or sometimes even days. As a starting pitcher, you play once every five games. So you have to live with poor performances for a while, and sometimes moving on can be hard — or at least it always has been for me. If I’d pitched badly, I couldn’t help but feel it for long stretches of time.

Now, though, win or lose, shutout or early exit, I get home and immediately go and play with the kiddos....

When I’m able to be home with them and we can all laugh and play together, my heart just fills up. And when I have to be away from them for a bit, there’s literally no better feeling than coming home from a road trip, opening the front door, and having two little ones sprint over to hug me with all their might. It’s just pure love....

For right now, it’s just very special to me that my kids are so excited to see their dad and to give me a hug. I will never ever take that for granted....

It is the greatest honor of my life to be their father, and to have them call me Dad.”

Read his story here: playerstribu.ne/ClaytonKershaw

📷: Jayne Kamin-Oncea

09/19/2025

Clayton Kershaw and his son are just taking it all in💙 (Via. FabianArdaya/X)

09/19/2025

What Dodgers Clayton Kershaw is excited for post-MLB career

09/19/2025

Two LA legends announce their retirement on the same day 👏

LA King Anze Kopitar and Dodger Clayton Kershaw each announced they will retire after their respective seasons after spending their entire careers in Los Angeles.

09/18/2025

Johnny Bench's tribute to Bob Uecker 🙌