This is the place to go for a quick glance at the top teams in California and for some immediate analysis. Two made field goals in the closing seconds will impact next week’s rankings as Davis shocks No. 15 Elk Grove and Loyola of Los Angeles stuns No. 18 Bishop Amat. Plus, No. 9 Oaks […]
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State Football Record Updates
For this installment, we look at the four times since 1991 (a 25-year span) that De La Salle of Concord has lost in a football game to another California team in the regular season. The school’s current in-state regular-season streak also is quite long. Plus, we’ll update where Antioch’s Najee Harris stands on the all-time...
NEW State Top 25 FB Rankings
See where newcomers Central Catholic of Modesto, Liberty of Bakersfield, Calabasas and La Mirada have landed and where previous No. 9 Helix of La Mesa fell after its loss to a top team from Utah. It’s still the big five of De La Salle, Corona Centennial, St. John Bosco, Mater Dei and Mission Viejo at...
Preseason All-Southern Sec Teams
With so many schools and so many top-ranked players, the massive CIF Southern Section gets a first team and a second team with player writeups and than a third team of those who just missed. If you want to say we saved the best for last, go ahead. Mater Dei leads the way with four […]
Preseason All-State FB Teams
We have 30 written up as first team with 30 more picked on a list for second team. We hope the annual all-state team at the end of the season matches this one closely and that no one doesn’t make it due to injury. Two juniors are one first team and two also are on...
Preseason State Super 50 (Part 3)
This group of teams starting at No. 26 is led off by ultra-talented Calabasas, which hopes to go even further in its CIF state division this season. Last year’s NorCal D1-AA representative to the CIF state bowl games, No. 27 Bellarmine of San Jose, is rebuilding but can’t be counted out. In this group as...
Class of ’17 FB Player Rankings (Summer)
Najee Harris (Antioch), Darnay Holmes (Calabasas) & Wyatt Davis (St. John Bosco) seem to be a solid top three as the state’s top college football prospects from the Class of 2017 get ready for elite events, such as The Opening in Beaverton, Oregon. Since the end of the last football season, however, there have been...
State Coach of the Year: Russell White
Back for the 1986 football season, Encino Crespi’s Russell White was the Cal-Hi Sports Mr. Football State Player of the Year. Almost 30 years later, a different Russell White of Crespi is the State Coach of the Year in boys basketball. He’s also the school’s athletic director and is the first-ever State Coach of the […]
Should CIF Ban Games vs. IMG?
If anybody has any more doubt that the IMG Academy football program of Bradenton, Florida is playing on a different level and with different rules about getting players to go there than just about any “school” in the nation, all the news this week about the University of Michigan practicing there basically to help its […]
All-State Football: Juniors
Announcement of 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams continues. These are for the best of the best among juniors only. And in addition to the first and second team, we also have a third team. Calabasas duo of Tristan Gebbia and Darnay Holmes along with Mr. Football POY Najee Harris of Antioch top the...
