Category Archives: Recruiting
Preseason All-Inland Empire FB Team
Here’s the fourth stop in our annual tour of the state prior to the start of the 2023 football season. This also is the third one of five we do for the massive CIF Southern Section. The Inland Empire region will again be the domain of powerhouse Corona Centennial. Strong returnees also are at Rancho...
Preseason All-Central Section FB Team
It’s now up to stop No. 3 in our annual tour of the state prior to the start of the 2023 football season. For this one, it’s the CIF Central Section, which in recent years has been in the unique situation in which its team could go north or south for the CIF regional bowl...
Preseason Long Beach/South Bay FB
For our second stop in our annual tour of the state prior to the start of the 2023 football season we hit the region dominated by national powerhouse St. John Bosco. We did Orange County and Mater Dei in the first stop. This year, though, on the offensive side of the ball, there also are...
Girls of Summer: Return to Oregon City
Bay Area teams show strength at End of the Trail tourney, but much has changed in the girls basketball summer recruiting season since the last time our girls hoops lead analyst went there in 2005. North Bay Elite & San Jose Cagers shined most, but Bulldawgs Basketball Black of Daly City also did well. FOR […]
Preseason All-Orange County FB Team
We are once again going to take a tour of the state prior to the start of the 2023 football season through the selection of preseason football honor squads. We begin with Orange County of the CIF Southern Section where the most talent-laden team of returnees that we’ve ever seen in more than 40 years...
Girls Cali Live 23: Top Player Ranks
Connecticut-committed Morgan Cheli from Archbishop Mitty of San Jose and Brazilian transplant and newfound phenom Taissa “Tissa” Queiroz of Santa Rosa Cardinal Newman were the top two players among some pretty impressive talent that performed for around 75 college coaches at the Roebbelen Center in Roseville two weeks ago. We have starting top five, next...
Class of 25 FB: Hot 100 Player Ranks
Here’s the first in-depth look at the state’s leading D1 prospects for football heading into the 2023 season. The big news is that the No. 1 player is Davon Mitchell, a transfer from Allen High in Texas, which just seems strange given the palace that school plays in and the competition in the Lone Star...
Boys BB: Cali Live Is A Hit
Everyone is a winner who got to play in the first-ever event last weekend at eight different schools in Orange County. The teams that enjoyed winning bracket titles on Sunday at Irvine High included Salesian of Richmond, Archbishop Mitty of San Jose and Centennial of Corona. Senior Carter Bryant and juniors Tounde Yessoufou and Brayden […]
