Professional Sports

San Jose Earthquakes midfielder Niko Tsakiris, from Saratoga, was recently recruited to the national team to compete at the Concacaf U-20 Championships in Mexico, joining teammate Cruz Medina on the squad. Meanwhile the South Bay pro team’s keeper, Emi Ochoa, was called up to play...

Put another feather in the cap for Los Gatos High School. Tommy Troy, a 2020 LGHS graduate, stroked two doubles in his Major League Debut in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 9-1 win over the Colorado Rockies at Chase Field on May 24.  The 5-foot-9, 197-pound Troy...

Tommy Troy has been on the Arizona Diamondbacks’ radar since his playing days at Los Gatos High, where he graduated from in 2020. So it was no surprise then when the D-backs selected Troy 12th overall in the MLB Draft on July 9. Troy, who...

At just 20 years old, Saratoga native Niko Tsakiris continues to make his mark with the San Jose Earthquakes, pairing composure and vision well beyond his years with a growing physical presence on the pitch.  His developing strength has added a new dimension to his...

Jared Allen, who graduated from Los Gatos High School, has been named a finalist for induction into the NFL Hall of Fame. Allen, who was born in Dallas, was raised on a ranch in Morgan Hill, where he attended Live Oak High School. Allen played...

When the San Jose Earthquakes played the Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) on May 6 at Levi’s Stadium, the game drew over 40,000 people.  A crowd in excess of 40,000 is also expected when the Quakes play the LA Galaxy in the 97th edition of the California Clasico at Stanford Stadium on Saturday at 7:30pm.  […]

Last Thursday, San Francisco 49ers tight end Jake Tonges took a break from apartment-hunting in Los Gatos and Saratoga to chat with the Los Gatan about signing a big two-year contract extension with the team that plays just up the road. “I’ve gotta find a...

Hunter Bigge was playing chess with a teammate in the locker room when he was summoned to Iowa Cubs Manager Marty Pevey’s office on July 6.   Uh-oh.  “The last time I was told to go to the manager’s office, I was being sent down to Double-A...

One by one, the San Jose Sharks players stepped off the ice and gave high-fives to select Special Olympics Northern California floor hockey athletes, at Sharks Ice in San Jose on Sept. 25. Many of the Sharks signed autographs. Center Alex Wennberg spent some extra...

It’s been over a month since Nico Wagner had the moment that every kid who grows up playing baseball wants to experience—his name being called in the Major League Baseball Draft.  On July 14, the Atlanta Braves selected Wagner in the 16th round (no. 487...