Category Archives: football
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
It’s a gigantic week for Orange County teams. Mission Viejo moves up into the top 10, Santa Margarita moves up into the top 15, Orange Lutheran gets a three-spot jump while Edison of Huntington Beach hops into the top 25. The top six from last week are the same, but it’s time to start thinking...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This week’s biggest mover among this group of teams is Bellarmine of San Jose. While we don’t yet have the Bells higher than three other West Catholic Athletic League rivals, their last two wins jumps them from No. 45 to No. 34. A group of five newcomers, meanwhile, is led by the Trinity League’s sixth...
TOP 10 MLB Players As Gridders
Here’s a fun list of the top 10 current players from Major League Baseball who are from California high schools and who were standouts in football. We thought upon starting that the San Francisco Giants and New York Yankees would have the most with two, but we have three on the list for the Seattle […]
All the history: St. Francis beats DLS
Could this season be like 2004 when California’s most historically great football program of the last 50 years actually had a 2-3-2 record after its first seven games? This Friday’s upcoming game vs. Cathedral Catholic of San Diego could provide the answer, but even if De La Salle of Concord were to wind up 2-4 […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For our six stops this week we hit the beaches of Southern California twice before heading to the suburbs of San Diego and Santee. When we head up to Northern California, we start in the Mother Lode Country town of Grass Valley, then head west on Highway 80 to around halfway between San Francisco and […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
For the first time since October of 2008, De La Salle of Concord is not No. 1 among teams from the S.F. Bay Area. After their loss to St. Francis of Mountain View, the Spartans also have dropped out of the first 10, and they also are playing a team this week that is ranked...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
It’s a group of seven new teams in this week’s rankings, although one of them had to be inserted into the first 25. The other six are led by Del Oro of Loomis followed by Torrey Pines of San Diego, Bellarmine of San Jose, St. Bonaventure of Ventura, Rancho Cucamonga and Clayton Valley. Corona del...
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
As No. 1 Mater Dei and No. 2 St. John Bosco were obliterating two more highly ranked teams from other states on Friday night, there was an earthquake in the Bay Area since No. 4 De La Salle of Concord was upset for the first time in 30 years by a Bay Area team (or […]