Category Archives: Preseason coverage
Reopening First Before Football (Part 6)
This is going to be a continuing series on this site until a majority of California high school football teams are practicing and getting ready for their first games. Despite the reminder that COVID-19 is still active and producing infections (including the one contracted this week by the President of the United States), more and […]
Hitting Every School In Our County
San Joaquin County is part of the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and is big enough to have two CIF state football title teams from last season. It’s also small enough so that we attempted to drive by, get some photos and check out what’s going on at every school in that county during a single day. […]
Reopening First Before Football (Part 5)
This is going to be a continuing series on this site until a majority of California high school football teams are practicing and getting ready for their first games. Over the past two-plus weeks, trends are all going in the right direction with San Diego, Orange and Santa Cruz counties taken off the state watch […]
Reopening First Before Football (Part 4)
This is going to be a continuing series on this site until a majority of California high school football teams are practicing and getting ready for their first games. Most of the bigger school districts in the state have yet to officially open, but some have with full distance learning via Zoom and Google applications. […]
Looking Ahead To State’s New Schools
It may be in the middle of a pandemic and with no athletic competitions scheduled until January, but there are still new comprehensive high schools officially opening in the state. We found two from the 2019-20 school year that are supposed to have sports for 2020-21, there is one opening this week in the CIF […]
New Section Leaders Start In Pandemic
Three of the 10 sections within the California Interscholastic Federation have undergone leadership changes this summer due to the announced retirements of previous section commissioners. We talked to all three of the new commissioners about what it’s been like having to go through their transition and how their own experiences as a high school athlete […]
Preseason All-State Football (Part 1)
How can a preseason all-state team be done in two parts? This is just our way of not completely ignoring those Class of 2021 graduating seniors who may not play for their high school teams once the next season begins. Part 2 will be a revamped version of these teams chosen in early December and […]
Reopening First Before Football (Part 3)
This is going to be a continuing series on this site until a majority of California high school football teams are practicing and getting ready for their first games. Last week’s announcement by the CIF and its 10 sections that the 2020 fall season is going to become the 2021 winter season gives many people […]
Trainers: So Crucial During COVID Era
Taping ankles and wrists have long ago become more than what athletic trainers are known for at schools throughout the state. From concussions and now helping athletes and coaches deal with impacts of a global pandemic, trainers have become doubly important in recent years and months. So why is California the only state in the […]
Reopening First Before Football
Before the prospects of how or when the 2020 high school football season will get going in the state, schools have to reopen and will need to do that successfully. Here’s a look at various school districts across the state and how they stand heading into the first full week of July. We hope you […]
