This is how the season looked after the first week during our week-by-week replay for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years: 1981, 1994 and 2008. No. 1 teams were still Cordova of Rancho Cordova, Bishop Amat of La Puente and De La Salle of Concord (although the...
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Great Seasons Replayed (’81, ’94, ’08)
Today we introduce one of the features we’ll be doing during this period of time in the fall with no high school sports in the state. It’s a week-by-week replay for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years: 1981, 1994 and 2008. We begin with a look at...
Top 50 Football Players We’ve Seen
Since this list comprises all of the years of the Concord De La Salle dynasty since the early 1980s, the Spartans are well-represented on this list, beginning with the top spot. Physically dominant linebacker-running back D.J. Williams from 1999 is still the best player we’ve ever seen in person from a California high school. We...
Goal-Setting From An NFL All-Timer
As many high school football players now know they’ll be training mostly on their own for another few months before the start of their next season, writing down goals and looking at them every day can be a very positive experience. A great example we know of is from Larry Allen, one of the greatest […]
100 Winningest FB Teams in CA History
We’re now going through all team categories in the exclusive Cal-Hi Sports state football record book files. For this post, it’s a monstrous expansion of our category for most wins by a school in its history. We’re also updating many other state football records for team categories in the next few days that will be […]
Coaching: Most CIF State Titles
Here’s a sport-by-sport look at coaches who have won the most CIF state championships in various sports (through 2023 fall season). GIRLS BASKETBALL 7 – Tom Gonsalves, Stockton St. Mary’s (2002-2015) 6 – Kevin Kiernan, Fullerton Troy & Santa Ana Mater Dei (2003-2012) 6 – Doc Scheppler, Los Altos Hills Pinewood (1999-2014) 6 – Carl...
Top 20 State MLB Draft Prospects
Once again, there is an abundance of California high school players getting ready for this year’s Major League Baseball Draft. There likely isn’t going to be a No. 1 choice like there was for 2014, 2015 and 2017, but there could once again be three or four gone in the first round. We go over...
NFL Draft Rundown (2020)
California only gets one player in the first round for the second straight year, but we can still point with pride at the 2018 draft when there were five in the top 15. Oaks Christian of Westlake Village is the only school that had two alums named this year and we have three chosen who […]
Positional/Regional State FB POYs
The final three posts for the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams are still being worked on, but in advance of that we are getting out the winning names of several honors that that have been added to our archives and reflect the most outstanding players in the state according to position (QBs, RBs, […]
All-Decade All-State Football: Teams
We have a first team and a second team comprised of California’s best players since 2010 season, based mostly on high school accomplishment but without ignoring what they might have done later on. Three from the 2019 season are on first team, one is on second. We also have the best current receiver in the...
