Sports at NorCal Courts

11/22/2025

Track & field remains the most participated girls sport nationwide, with volleyball and soccer rounding out the top spots 📈

11/22/2025

11/22/2025

The eight living members of that championship team, which includes Rick Barry, Jamaal Wilkes and Charles Dudley, will be honored during the Blazers vs. Warriors game

11/21/2025

11/20/2025

11/20/2025

🏀On November 19, 1981 the Los Angeles Lakers do the unthinkable and fire head coach Paul Westhead only 18 months after he guided them to an NBA championship. The day before, Magic Johnson had stunned the media by demanding to be traded. Lakers owner Jerry Buss sided with his star player and exiled the coach, who Johnson complained was running the offense too slowly. Buss denied that Westhead’s firing had anything to do with Johnson’s trade request, though no one believed anything but the contrary. Filling Westhead’s place was two people, oddly enough. Buss announced that assistant coach Pat Riley and Lakers consultant Jerry West would share the head coaching position, with West controlling the offense and Riley handling the defense. The dual-coaching appointment was quickly abandoned and Riley assumed complete control of the team within a few days. “It was just becoming a job,” Johnson later said of his time under Westhead. “No high fives. No camaraderie. That was hurting me because that’s what I’m all about -- having fun playing basketball. But the way the system was then, nobody was having fun.” Riley did a phenomenal job with the Lakers and established himself as one of the greatest coaches of all time. With him at the helm, the "Showtime" Lakers became one of the highest-scoring teams in the NBA and seized the best record in the West. They won the NBA title that year and would win it again in 1985, 1987, and 1988.🏀

11/20/2025

11/20/2025

Fact of the Day: Ted Williams is the only player in the Baseball Hall of Fame to serve in two different wars (World War II, Korean War)