We have arrived at the week of the likely first of two massive matchups between Mater Dei of Santa Ana (No. 1) and St. John Bosco of Bellflower (No. 2). There is another potentially even more historic game up north between state-ranked De La Salle and San Ramon Valley. The biggest mover in this week’s...
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Rodrick Pleasant: State Athlete of Year
This one is a no-brainer on many levels. Rodrick not only is moving up from being the State Sophomore and State Junior Athlete of the Year, but he was arguably even better than expected in football and track as a senior. He also joins an impressive list of State Athletes of the Year from the […]
Preseason Long Beach/South Bay FB
For our second stop in our annual tour of the state prior to the start of the 2023 football season we hit the region dominated by national powerhouse St. John Bosco. We did Orange County and Mater Dei in the first stop. This year, though, on the offensive side of the ball, there also are...
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
On Saturday, No. 2 St. John Bosco defeated the top-ranked team in Hawaii. In a pair of key matchups between top teams from different CIF sections on Friday, Folsom of the Sac-Joaquin Section topped Pittsburg of the North Coast while De La Salle of the North Coast defeated Cathedral Catholic of San Diego. There also […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
On a bizarre Friday night when tropical thunderstorms plagued games in the south while a wildfire in Placer/El Dorado counties caused games to be cancelled or postponed in the north, the beat rolled on for the state’s top three teams. The biggest winner of the night may have been No. 19 Serra (Gardena), which got […]
More Boys State Athletes of the Year
To go with overall honoree Colin Sahlman, we have more special athletes selected among boys for juniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from divisions (D1, D3, D4 and D5) for the 2021-22 school year. One of our divisional winners played four sports while two of them stood out in three. We have a sophomore who did […]
Preseason All-Long Beach/South Bay
In the carving up of the massive CIF Southern Section into different sections for this tour of the state through various preseason all-county, all-area and all-section football teams, this is the one that combines the Long Beach area and the South Bay. In other words, national powerhouse St. John Bosco’s region. Serra of Gardena and...
More State Schools of the Year
For boys sports only, De La Salle of Concord is considered tops for the state for 2021-22 thanks to a No. 1 finish in baseball coming a few days after winning a CIF state title in golf. For the girls, St. Francis of Mountain View is going to be listed alongside its overall State School […]
