Author Archives: Harold Abend
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
For our basketball honorees this week we have two from the San Gabriel Valley, including a girl from a city famous for its parade and the Rose Bowl for our SoCal award winners. We also head north and stop near one of the most famous prisons in the state, plus we go south of Fresno […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Our search for the Softball and Baseball Players of the Week takes us to the Fresno area and the shadows of majestic Mt. Tamalpais for the Northern California honorees, and to The Beach in Orange County and southwestern San Bernardino County for the Southern California award winners. We hope you enjoy this free story on […]
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
The playoffs begin in the CIF Southern Section this weekend and while we want to try and mirror the Open Division seedings in the CIF Southern Section our rankings are not seedings and we use a completely different set of criteria that has less emphasis on some factors the Southern Section and other sections for...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For our basketball honorees this week, the stops are in the Port City of Stockton and Orinda in Northern California, and then for Southern California we go to Temecula in the wine-growing region of the Inland Empire, and to the Southern Orange County city of Mission Viejo. We hope you enjoy this free story on...
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
Over the first weeks of these rankings, we’ve tried to be fair since this spring season is an anomaly in more than one way. Not only did it start when it should have ended, the CIF relaxing its bylaws to allow for club and high school competition to go on simultaneously has caused many of...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
For our basketball honorees this week, the stops are in Agoura Hills and San Diego for the Southern California winners, and we land halfway between Fresno and Yosemite National Park in the town of Oakhurst and not far from Mt. Diablo and the town of Danville for our Northern California award winners. We hope you […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
We travel this week to the San Joaquin County wine region of Lodi, and then to the shadows of the Sutter Buttes for our Northern California honorees. For the south, it’s the Southern Orange County mission city of San Juan Capistrano, and then to the north-westerly edge of Los Angeles County and the community of […]
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
Despite action now underway throughout the state with the exception of some schools in the city sections, the pandemic is still forcing cancellations and re-scheduling as the drive continues in the Southern Region for section playoffs in the Central, San Diego and Southern Sections, and then a Southern Regional championship playoffs. With Tuesday night games...
