We take what the CIF has announced on Sunday for this year’s NorCal and SoCal regional championship games and enhance them with which section title each team won plus win-loss record plus any notes or comments that we immediately noticed. State title games will be played this year at Saddleback, El Camino & Pasadena junior...
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All the history: St. Francis beats DLS
Could this season be like 2004 when California’s most historically great football program of the last 50 years actually had a 2-3-2 record after its first seven games? This Friday’s upcoming game vs. Cathedral Catholic of San Diego could provide the answer, but even if De La Salle of Concord were to wind up 2-4 […]
Quick Picks: CIF State Football Finals
Feel free to leave your own predicted scores of each CIF state football championship being played this weekend in our comments section. With respect to every team that is still playing and with congratulations to all, here would be our annual picks for each game in our annual battle to beat the computer. We did […]
FINAL Girls Volleyball State Top 20
Torrey Pines win its first-ever CIF state title and does it in the Open Division with last Saturday’s three-game sweep of Marin Catholic. We’ve had the Falcons No. 1 in the state for many weeks with most of the so-called national experts not matching that and now many of them are going with Torrey Pines […]
NEW Girls Volleyball State Top 20
There was almost as big a development off the court as on it this week with the CIF breaking precedent and handing out byes for the Open Division in both Southern and Northern California. On the court, Wednesday’s first games of the Open Division saw new No. 4 Marymount upend No. 5 Cathedral Catholic plus […]
Prep Notes With A Twist
An Open Division or national championship for California teams in a few sports? And the CIF letting California teams compete in it? Yes, we say it’s time to consider exactly that. Unless you like one-sided state finals…..Latest state record file update is for single-game receiving and we already have four this season who’ve gotten five...
Prep Notes With A Twist
We’re doing this feature for most weeks this season with a mix of topical comments on the leading issues in California high school sports, the best state stat stars of the previous week and state record updates. We start out with our thoughts about small, four-team playoff brackets at the top of some sections with...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
Now is when the rubber really meets the road as the drive to the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento for the March 8-9 state championships begins this week. There were not a lot of surprises in the Open Division selections for Northern California since we knew with a lack of Open Division level teams in...
NEW Boys BB State Top 20 Rankings
Congrats to all the section champions and those looking to bounce back in the regional as California has reached its “win or go home” portion of the season. As the regional playoffs kick off, our Top 5 remain the same, since our rankings do not always match the NorCal and SoCal regional seedings. There’s one...
New Frontier For Sierra Canyon Girls
Trailblazers win in No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown of state-ranked teams on Tuesday night (they were No. 2) over Windward of Los Angeles and now assume catbird’s seat in California girls hoops for the first time in school history. This isn’t new for the Sierra Canyon boys, who are defending CIF Open Division state […]
