Category Archives: Recruiting
All-State FB Nominees (Part 2)
The selection process for the 39th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams continues with the second set of all-state nominees. This first group of players who were placed on our board are from the CIF Central Coast Section, CIF North Coast Section, CIF Northern Section, CIF Sac-Joaquin Section plus San Francisco & Oakland. This second […]
Bosco FB in Eye of Media Storm
Dealing with four or five star player rankings on recruiting networks, going on trips to play in games shown on ESPN and handling social media are just part of what the support staff at a big-time high school football program at a place like St. John Bosco has to grapple with every week and throughout […]
Boys BB: Introducing 2021 Class
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a first look at the state’s top incoming ninth-graders. The freshman (2021) class has some elite talent in the post and on the wing, but a top-flight pass-first point guard has yet to emerge. Many in the group are already mature and it’s important to keep […]
Boys BB: Updated ’20 Player Rankings
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class. The sophomore class (2020) has a great crop of shooting guards and a big man with great potential at the top. We expand our 2020 rankings from 25 to 65 with seven newcomers to the...
Boys BB: Updated ’19 Player Rankings
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class. Yesterday we published our 2018 Hot 100 for seniors and today we take a look at the Hot 100 juniors (2019). Our post-summer Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 will be updated at least once during the...
Boys BB: Updated ’18 Player Rankings
We tip off our boys basketball coverage for the 2017-18 school year for Gold Club VIPs with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class, beginning with seniors (2018). Our post-summer Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 will be updated at least once during the season and we’ll come back and publish our final...
Preseason All-San Fernando Valley
Statewide tour of each CIF section (SF & Oakland players to watch still to come) is complete with unveiling of preseason All-San Fernando Valley squad, which also includes the Santa Clarita and Antelope Valley areas. We put two of the region’s very best athletes — Devon Williams of Antelope Valley and Matthew Tago of Quartz...
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...
