Category Archives: Preseason coverage
Preseason All-NCS East Bay
Our final stop for Northern California on our annual tour of the state’s top preseason players and teams based on a selection of key players is the East Bay portion of the CIF North Coast Section. This is the place where De La Salle of Concord has ruled since 1992. That should be the case...
Preseason All-San Gabriel Valley
Dual-threat quarterbacks weren’t hard to choose from in this region because with the multi-purpose category we simply picked all of them. From a team-leading standpoint, both Bishop Amat (La Puente) and Cathedral (Los Angeles) lead with three players selected. Where to put Cathedral in these preseason all-area teams from the CIF Southern Section is a...
Preseason All-NCS Redwood Empire
Marin Catholic and Cardinal Newman may be this region’s most well-known programs in recent years, but heading into 2017 the school with the most preseason All-NCS talent is Rancho Cotate. That’s partly what happens with a returning quarterback who had 3,800 yards passing and his two top receivers coming back as well. One sophomore who...
Preseason FB: All-L.A. City Section
Once again Narbonne of Harbor City is the preseason team to beat in the L.A. City Section and it will be an upset if any other program captures the section’s first open division title. The section has ebbs and flows with regards to the strength of its teams, but there is always an abundance of...
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
A tremendous group of defensive linemen highlights this year’s top group from the CIF Central Coast Section. We put five on first team and there’s some other great ones we had to put on second but are among the best DLs in Northern California. Milpitas leads the way with five honorees and if we were...
Preseason FB: Top 50 Teams (1-15)
Mater Dei’s potential offensive firepower is too much and gives the Monarchs a tiny edge in a close call over league rival and defending CIF Open Division champ St. John Bosco for the preseason No. 1 slot. Our first inclination two weeks ago also was to have Centennial of Corona third, De La Salle fourth […]
Preseason FB: Top 50 Teams (16-30)
This second group of elite teams leads off with Calabasas, which is continuing to build toward a CIF state title. We also had a hard time coming up with a team to start out highest in the CIF Central Coast Section, so we just stuck two of them in this group right next to each […]
Preseason FB: Top 50 Teams (31-50)
We’re getting started with this two-day extravaganza of preseason state rankings with writeups of those slotted in the No. 31 position down to No. 50. There are more than 1,100 high schools that have football in California so any team in this honor roll is special. Additional teams on the bubble will be added once […]
Preseason All-Long Beach/South Bay
This is the preseason football team that essentially combines the two coverage areas of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and South Bay Daily Breeze within the CIF Southern Section. Schools in westside of L.A. in the CIFSS also are included in this group. Any player from any school other than St. John Bosco, Long Beach Poly...
