7 Friday Night

The show may have produced an emergency pod surrounding St. Francis-Mountain View's NorCal streak-busting win over De La Salle-Concord, but there was still PLENTY of spillover into this week's episode. First off, Chace and Ben invited St. Francis coach Greg Calcagno onto the program to talk about his big win and its aftermath.  At the same time, they invited his distant relative of the same l...

When St. Francis-Mountain View pulled off its seismic 31-28 victory over De La Salle-Concord on Friday night — becoming the first Northern California team in 30 years to beat the Spartans — hosts Chace and Ben decided an emergency podcast was in order.  The hosts welcome old friend and colleague, Damin Esper, who has spent the past three seasons as the primary color analyst on the De La Salle...

The first big rivalry game of the season — the Holy Bowl between Jesuit-Carmichael and Christian Brothers-Sacramento — gets center stage in this episode. Hosts Chace and Ben invite Jesuit coach Marlon Blanton onto the show to talk about the rivalry and share thoughts about his team's Week 3 win over Granite Bay. With the Northern California edition of the Honor Bowl taking place as well this week,...

After the second week of regular season football in Northern California featured several game cancellations due to wildfire smoke, hosts Chace and Ben talk about the wild cancellation/rescheduling frenzy. As part of the conversation, they welcome Clayton Valley High co-coach Nick Tisa to discuss his team's manic four-day stretch that involved multiple bus trips to Turlock. The Ugly Eagles were fin...

Bay Area high school football returns this week, so Ben and Chace literally take the show on the road for a visit to Pittsburg. That's the location of the biggest game of the week as SportStars Magazine's No. 3-ranked Pittsburg High hosts No. 4 Serra-San Mateo. The hosts share a conversation with head coach Victor Galli about his super-talented Pirates squad and a half-decade of battles against Se...

It's opening week in the Sac-Joaquin Section! Ben and Chace mark the occasion by making predictions on some of the key matchups, and Coach Terry Eidson returns to face Ben in a battle of SJS trivia. The matchup was described as "scintillating," though we're not sure it reached that bar. There were laughs, though. Also, with the rest of the sections in their scrimmage week, Ben and Chace pick Coach...

Chace welcomes Ben back to high school football punditry as the two hosts recall their glory years as the stars of the briefly popular video series, "Two Geeks And A Pigskin." Ben shares of his experiences getting back into high school football reporting and the two talk about some of the themes they've come across while talking to coaches over the first week and a half of practices. Finally, they...