Stories from the weekend (8/22-8/24)

We're less than two weeks from the first high school football games of the year. And most of the other fall sports will fire up this week. As newspapers and web sites run their high school football previews, we'll try to gather all the links to them in one place so you can get your high school football fix.

The Sacramento Bee has a story on the two big football showcases scheduled to happen in Weeks 0 and 1 in Sacramento. Two Saturdays (Sept. 5 and 12) with nothing but high school football all day. For Bill Paterson's story, click here.

The Modesto Bee is firing up its high school football stories to advance the season, and today it introduces us to Johansen's football team. The Vikings won the MMC last year behind 2,000-yard running back Deven Cannon. For Rich Estrada's story, click here.

Former Indian three-sport standout Tristan (Austin) Ruiz is being inducted into the Napa High Hall of Fame. For Marty James' story in the Napa Valley Register, click here.

ESPN/CalHiSports.com has another in a long line of high school football preview stories. This time, one of the included teams is Trans-Valley League power Escalon. For the story, click here.

The Elliot Christian football team is undergoing a youth movement; nearly 70 percent of its players are freshmen or sophomores. Sometimes that's life at the smallest of high schools that field football teams. For the Lodi News story by Joelle Milholm, click here.

The Folsom Telegraph has a story on the first week of practice for the Folsom football team. The Bulldogs went 9-1 in the regular season last year. For Matt Long's story, click here.

NOTES: The El Dorado Hills Daily Telegraph has the story on Oak Ridge senior Kyle Porter accepting a scholarship to play baseball for the University of California here. ... The Granite Bay Press-Tribune has a story on the GB football team's season opener being televised here. ... Galt has dropped freshman football, click here.