With many of the players written up on first team selected by very close calls, here’s the lineup for second team for our 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football honors. Many of these second team players are great in their own right and we know it’s almost a guarantee that some of them will end...
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NEW State TOP 25 Boys BB Rankings
We have some big changes this week at the top as previous No. 1 Sierra Canyon goes down in the CIF Southern Section Open Division title game and Torrey Pines takes over the top spot. No team from San Diego County has finished No. 1 in the state in the modern era. Torrey Pines is...
Centennial Climbs The Canyon
One night after school’s girls team lost in a heart-breaker in the CIF Southern Section Open Division final, the boys headed to state No. 1 Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth and won the biggest game in school history by toppling the host Trailblazers in the CIFSS Open championship. Centennial isn’t going to play in next week’s […]
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
The playoffs begin in the CIF Southern Section this weekend and while we want to try and mirror the Open Division seedings in the CIF Southern Section our rankings are not seedings and we use a completely different set of criteria that has less emphasis on some factors the Southern Section and other sections for...
NEW State TOP 25 Boys BB Rankings
There is one new team this week and it’s from the Sac Joaquin Section, but the big news in all the changes in the Top 10 surrounds the teams battling for the eight coveted spots in the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoff bracket. We break down the potential field and why recent results should...
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
Despite action now underway throughout the state with the exception of some schools in the city sections, the pandemic is still forcing cancellations and re-scheduling as the drive continues in the Southern Region for section playoffs in the Central, San Diego and Southern Sections, and then a Southern Regional championship playoffs. With Tuesday night games...
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
Trying to do a First Look rankings last week with half the state still not in action was tough to say the least but with the pandemic still having an effect on things and some teams still not in action or with only one or two games under their belts further complicating things, this first...
Football Schools of Century (So Far)
Going by a points system based on final state top 20 rankings since the 1999-2000 school year and matching previous posts for schools of the century (so far) plus girls basketball, softball and baseball, here’s the list for football. With no 2020 season counted, the No. 1 position for De La Salle of Concord should...
2008 Season Replayed (Final)
This is how the season looked after it was completed in 2008. This is the third of three posts in which our week-by-week replays for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years — 1981, 1994 and 2008 — is concluding with one post focusing on how each wrapped...
Schools With The Most All-State Players
We’ve done these lists previously for boys hoops, girls hoops, baseball and softball and now we’re finishing with football. With our all-state first team selections going back to 1980 (and not earlier), that also mirrors the start of the head coaching career of Bob Ladouceur at Concord De La Salle so it shouldn’t come as […]
