Category Archives: Football Scores/Game Writeups
1981, ’94, ’08 Season Replays Week 12
This is how the season looked after the 12th week during our week-by-week replay for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years: 1981, 1994 and 2008. And at this point in those seasons things were really starting to get interesting. In 1981, there was a new No. 1...
2008, ’81 & ’94 Season Replays Week 10
This is how the season looked after the 10th week during our week-by-week replay for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years: 1981, 1994 and 2008. No. 1 teams remained Edison of Huntington Beach, Bishop Amat of La Puente and Long Beach Poly (but spoiler alert one of...
2008, ’94, ’81 Season Replays (Week 3)
This is how the season looked after the third week during our week-by-week replay for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years: 1981, 1994 and 2008. There were two new No. 1 teams following this week’s games in those seasons: Edison of Huntington Beach (1981) and Long Beach...
1981, ’94, ’08 Season Replays (Week 1)
This is how the season looked after the first week during our week-by-week replay for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years: 1981, 1994 and 2008. No. 1 teams were still Cordova of Rancho Cordova, Bishop Amat of La Puente and De La Salle of Concord (although the...
Biggest Upset Openers Since 2000
This was supposed to have been the opening weekend of the 2020 high school football season in California (at least in those areas of the state not greatly impacted by poor air quality from the many fires). With that in mind, here’s a year-by-year look going back to the 2000 season of the most surprising...
State Roundup: Games Overshadowed
We wish we were writing about Corona High, Corona Centennial or Corona del Mar, but Saturday’s CIF regional semifinals in both boys and girls basketball were eclipsed in significance by off-the-court developments relating to the coronavirus outbreak. Two-time defending CIF NorCal Open Division champion Sheldon of Sacramento (boys) thought on Saturday that its season ended […]
Boys BB: CIFSS Open Championship
State No. 1 Sierra Canyon (Chatsworth) defeats No. 2 Mater Dei (Santa Ana) by outscoring the Monarchs in every quarter to clinch its second consecutive CIF Southern Section Open Division title o Friday night at the Pyramid in Long Beach. With the victory, the Trailblazers wrapped up the top seed in the SoCal Open regional […]
LB Poly girls starting 2020s like 2010s
After two sub-par seasons in 2018 and 2019, the Long Beach Poly girls basketball team is squarely back among the very best in California. If an earlier overtime win in December over Mater Dei of Santa Ana didn’t show that, the Jackrabbits surely did Monday night with a win over unbeaten No. 1 in the […]
Saturday CIF State Finals
St. John Bosco of Bellflower makes it 3-for-3 in CIF Open Division state title game triumphs over De La Salle of Concord, but the Spartans hung around until a back-breaking 96-yard fumble return touchdown late in the fourth quarter of 49-28 contest. The CIF Southern Section also made it 3-for-3 on the day at Cerritos […]
