With two months to go before the end of the current school year and as 2016 basketball season honors are about to be decided, it’s a good time to introduce our users to an improved and we hope more fun version of the CalHiSports.com web site. It’s not that different of a design, but there […]
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NorCal Baseball: 25 Best, 25 Yrs
For a feature we did last month for our partners at SportStars Magazine (it was their idea), the task was to choose the 25 best high school baseball players from the last 25 years for Northern California. It ended up that nine of the 25 have World Series rings. Note: To see the SportStars Magazine […]
NFHS Network Games/Events of Week
Below are the events that going on this week in California on the NFHS Network. The No. 1 boys basketball team in the country, Chino Hills, has a game Tuesday, and there also will be CIF Northern Section Girls & Boys basketball. We don’t offer coverage of wrestling on this site, but we’ve been around […]
Yanks, Celtics, Pats On One State List
After reading about the accomplishments of Yogi Berra when he died recently, we were inspired to look up a list of the greatest pro sports champions from California high schools (presented by SteinerSports.com). It’s a list that also includes many New York Yankees, but there’s one from a California high school who won even more […]
Redskins ban signed into law
California becomes first state in the nation to bar the use of “Redskins” as a nickname or mascot for any public school. The new law, signed on Sunday by Governor Jerry Brown, impacts four of the state’s high schools.
State’s Greatest Closed High Schools
What do you do when you’re from a school that no longer exists? These schools did exist and some thrived in various sports for many years. Here’s a look back at a few of them.
State Football Record Updates
Two RBs named Harris – a senior from Tulare and a junior from Antioch — got us motivated to post new list of state’s all-time career rushing leaders. We also review the single-game and single-season QB sack records and go over new schools that have joined those with 500 or more all-time varsity wins.
Boys Athlete of Year: T.J. DeFalco
After determining no multi-sport or two-sport athlete in the state was going to get the top spot this year, it came down to a choice between single-sport performers of the year Jake Browning (football), Michael Norman (track) and T.J. DeFalco (volleyball). In the end, when a player already is on the U.S. National Team and […]
