Here’s a quick-hitting list of transfers likely to impact this year’s boys basketball state rankings. It’s been a hectic off-season and we offer a rundown of where some of California’s elite players ended up, including some whom left the state. Read more…
Cal-Hi Sports Insider Blog
Quick-hitting, behind-the-scenes news and notes from the CalHiSports.com staff, including previews of upcoming content and events.
Sac-Joaquin Top 5: Single Season TDs
We are happy to say that for the fifth straight year the CalHiSports.com web site and Cal-Hi Sports have been part of the weekly Final Quarter high school football show on Friday nights on the FOX 40 station in Sacramento.
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Why CIF Vball May Be 2 Weeks Earlier
Nothing has been announced officially by the California Interscholastic Federation, but moving up the CIF state championship calendar by at least one week for the 2018-19 school year has been common knowledge to many in the media and for many coaches.
For years, the CIF fall sports calendar has had state championships in cross country first and this year’s meet will be this weekend at its longtime home at Woodward Park in Fresno. The CIF girls volleyball state finals will then be held the following week on Dec. 1-2 at Rancho Santiago College in Orange.
The easy path for the CIF in moving up fall events by one week would be simply to move up cross country, girls volleyball and then football. That’s not so easy, however, and here’s why.
Vendors who are signed up by the CIF have a monster day during the Friday before the Saturday at the cross country championships. It’s the biggest CIF event of the year in terms of competitors (thousands and thousands) and since it’s always Thanksgiving weekend all of those competitors run the course the day before the actual races. All of their parents are there with them and buy all of their souvenirs on that day as well. The CIF’s many business partners therefore probably won’t want to see that Friday bonanza moved one week earlier.
So what’s the solution? It’s simple. Girls volleyball can be two weeks earlier and cross country stays the same. Moving up girls volleyball by two weeks also would align the California season with the rest of the nation. States that just ended with championship events last weekend were Florida, Texas, New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York. As it stands now, California doesn’t end for two weeks and is the only state still going. With the two-week change, the California season and the national season would then be over at the same time as those other states.
Moving up the girls volleyball calendar by two weeks may have a big impact on some of the late-season tournaments like the Santa Barbara TOC, but all in all it’s probably the correct move for the CIF.
NEW CIF Sac-Joaquin Sec Top 20
Once again, since the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section is the one for our home base in Stockton, we’ll put together a weekly Top 20 in football for that section this season. Watch the FOX40 Final Quarter this week on Friday at 10:45 p.m. for all the playoff highlights. Our Top 5 lists and the 11 p.m. half-hour show are done for the season.
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Sac-Joaquin Top 5: Single Game TDs
We are happy to say that for the fifth straight year the CalHiSports.com web site and Cal-Hi Sports has been part of the weekly Final Quarter high school football show on Friday nights on the FOX 40 station in Sacramento.
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Few more State Stat Stars of Week
Here are more individual totals we need to record onto the site from last week’s football games. This list doesn’t include any SoCal/NorCal players of the week or those from the CIF Central Section, who are featured in a separate post on this blog. Even more players are mentioned in our various State Top 50 team highlight writeups. We follow state stat stars each week in support of our exclusive Cal-Hi Sports State Record Book and are adding categories to the on-line files all the time. To see new record updates and stat stars from top-ranked teams, join our Gold Club by CLICKING HERE.
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The Increasing Craze of Virtual Sports
What are virtual sports we hear you cry? Virtual sports are fantasy sports that are based on real-life sporting events. Virtual sports are available to players from their own desktop or gaming systems, but what are the key benefits to the players? And, how do they compare to real sports?
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NEW CIF Sac-Joaquin Sec Top 20
Once again, since the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section is the one for our home base in Stockton, we’ll put together a weekly Top 20 in football for that section this season. Watch the FOX40 Final Quarter this week on Friday at 11 p.m. for all the playoff highlights and to see our final SJS Top 5 List for the season.
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