Category Archives: Featured Article
FINAL State TOP 75 FB Ranks (1-25)
It takes us extra time for the final football rankings since all of them are expanded and checked through several times. Here’s the first 25 teams in which the changes are minimal compared to the previous rankings due to various head-to-head results. Liberty of Bakersfield inched upward one spot while CIF San Diego Section Open...
Who Will Be First-Ever Frosh POY?
There has never been a Cal-Hi Sports State Freshman Football Player of the Year, but there will be one named after the 2022 season is in the books. Here’s a quick look at five top contenders, why we’re doing this now, if we’ll do our usual approach of going back and naming one historically over […]
Season Opening NBA Alums 2022-23
Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth dominates with seven players who are on NBA rosters as the 2022-23 season begins this week. There already were five former Trailblazers last season, but now you have to add Christian Koloko of the Toronto Raptors plus we’re counting two-way G League players such as Scotty Pippen Jr. of the L.A. […]
Section By Section Football Greats
With the first class of 100 inductees going into the new California High School Football Hall of Fame in mind (opening next month), here’s a look at lists of the all-time top players from each of the 10 sections within the California Interscholastic Federation. These are based on the first votes for the Hall of […]
Cali Vs. Hawaii 20 Years Ago
Almost on the same weekend as this year’s matchups in which the No. 1 and No. 2 teams from California played leading teams from Hawaii, there was a doubleheader in 2002 in which the No. 1 and No. 2 teams from California played top-ranked Hawaii teams at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu. We were there and […]
All-State All-Name Team 2022
Without trying to make fun of anyone, here is a look at what we found to be the most unusual names of players on California high school football rosters for the 2022 season. Three players in particular inspired this feature, OL King Large of St. John Bosco, QB Hype Grand of Orange and one player […]
Carlos Arias: Getting Stronger Daily
A former Orange County Register high school sports journalist and current writer for the ExtraInningSoftball.com national web site, Carlos Arias continues to work every day and hopes to be out at games sometime in the future. That he’s even alive is really a miracle. This article, in fact, was begun as an obituary in May […]
Boys/Girls BB Combo Records
Here is a collection of updated state records in categories relating to boys & girls combo records. These include Best Season Records for boys & girls teams at the same school for the same season along Most Combo Wins, Best Combo Records for Each Year and all of the same year, same schools to win...
State School of Year: St. Francis (MV)
What began with a historic win on the football field is ending with St. Francis of Mountain View collecting the 2021-22 State School of the Year selection. This is just the Lancers’ second time getting onto the all-time state list, but it’s been 29 years. They finished strong in softball, baseball and boys volleyball to […]
Ms. Softball 2022: Jessica Oakland
Hitting a state-best 21 homers for the No. 1 team in the state helps St. Francis of Mountain View standout to get over the top in this year’s Ms. Softball State Player of the Year honors. The daughter of head coach Mike Oakland also had 40 homers in the last two seasons and gained several […]
