Category Archives: Featured Article
All-Time NorCal Unbeaten FB Teams
Thanks to mountains of information on California high school football that can’t be found anywhere else, here is an honor roll list according to Cal-Hi Sports of every reported unbeaten team from schools currently in the CIF Northern Section, CIF Sac-Joaquin Section, CIF North Coast Section, CIF Central Coast Section plus San Francisco and Oakland....
NorCal vs. SoCal: Endless Debate
It was after all games were played during the 1992 high school football season in the state when we put together a cover story for Student Sports Magazine that allowed players from the top-ranked teams to come together for a photo shoot. The one who came down to Southern California to represent CIF North Coast...
State’s All-Time 100 Greatest Athletes (Women)
With the men’s list getting an update after Tom Brady’s latest Super Bowl win, it’s also past due to complete one for the women. Based on CIF sanctioned sports only, we have Billie Jean King of Long Beach Poly in the top position not just for what she did on the court in tennis, but...
State’s All-Time 100 Greatest Athletes (Men)
After Tom Brady of Serra High (San Mateo) earned a seventh Super Bowl title last week, we were inspired to write up our own rankings of the all-time greatest 100 athletes from California high schools. Based on CIF sanctioned sports only, we have Brady at No. 3 behind only Jackie Robinson and Bill Russell. McClymonds...
Cali Super Bowl Alums 2021
With COVID protocols, it’s a different Super Bowl than any other. It’s also almost unlike any other Super Bowl because there’s the lowest total since the very first game in 1967 for the number of players from California. Injuries have knocked out key players from California for both the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay […]
Club Football Needs To Find Its Place
With high school football still in danger of not having any season for the 2020-21 school year at all taking place in many parts of the state, operators of club football teams have stepped into the gap. Games have been held going against local and state health restrictions and club teams have been traveling to […]
All-Time All-State Small Schools Teams
Inspired by the phenomenal success this season of Firebaugh’s Josh Allen with the Buffalo Bills, we’ve come up with an all-time all-state small schools football team. It’s been done based on what’s happened by players after high school and it’s filled with many more stories of those who were under-recruited and mostly unknown in high...
State Schools of the Century (So Far)
We came up with a points system for all of the schools that have been mentioned and honored in our annual State School of the Year selections since the 1999-2000 school year and have put together a top 10 for overall sports excellence so far for the 21st century. It is close at the top […]
Baseball State Records Updated (2)
For this second of two posts highlighting all of the baseball state records that have now been added to our site we go over all of the categories relating to pitching. Pitch counts and innings limitations have definitely caused fewer records to be broken in recent seasons, so we’ve added a couple of new categories. […]
