We’ve got all of the details this week on Jarod Lucas of Los Altos (Hacienda Heights) joining the 3,000-point club for career scoring. We have all of them correct too, since we’ve been doing state records for 40 years. Lucas wasn’t the only big-time California player to have a big week. San Joaquin Memorial’s Jalen...
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Updated All-State FB Noms (Part 2)
These are updated nominations lists from the CIF Central Section, CIF L.A. City Section and the CIF San Diego Section that we will be using for selection of the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. First of these teams to be announced on Friday. New photos have been added as well. It’s still not...
CIF Football Finals: Picks & Previews
Go inside for a look at each of the 10 CIF state championship games coming up this weekend with a predicted score for each one. We went 9-4 in our 13 choices last year and beat the computer, which was 8-5. We also have included a lot of historical facts and figures for a lot...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
A lot of the teams in this group naturally have fallen down from the first 25 and are done for the season with playoff losses. Still, there’s some on the rise, like new No. 28 Wilcox of Santa Clara and new No. 42 South Hills of West Covina. We also have three teams still going...
Boys BB: Introducing 2022 Class
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a first look at the state’s top incoming ninth-graders. The freshman (2022) class has terrific talent in the post and some top-shelf point guards. Many in the group are already mature and it’s important to keep that in mind when projecting future success, especially for post...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Coming off of a three-week absence due to injury may not have ever been done better than what Sean McDonald of Ramona High did last Friday. Plus, we’re honoring one of three CIF Central Section QBs who should surpass 10,000 career yards on the same night this week. This week’s group in all also comes […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
For the second straight week, a girl has to get mentioned but this time it’s for scoring a touchdown. Shelbi Beghetti did it last week for Bear River (Lake of the Pines) and it was more than just school history. We also have an outing by QB Payton Stokes of Saratoga with 575 total yards...
State Stat Stars of the Week
Some games produce multiple stat stars and that was the case last week for shootouts between Western of Anaheim and Garden Grove (Western won 35-31), Pacheco of Los Banos and Grace Davis of Modesto (Pacheco won 61-40) plus Point Loma of San Diego and University City of San Diego (Point Loma won 50-40). We also...
Preseason Central Section FB Team
It’s an amazing season coming up the Central Valley with record-breaking, rush-pass quarterbacks galore. We couldn’t even fit some players with monster stats from last year on first team. This also is the first year the section welcomes 13 new schools coming in from the CIF Southern Section. Two players from those schools are on...
More State Boys Athletes of the Year
Among others being selected for top state honors is a junior who just committed to USC to play both football and basketball, a sophomore named Jalen who edged out another sophomore from the same school named Jalen and a freshman wrestler from Selma. We also have a State Three-Sport Athlete of the Year from San […]