With the end of the season in sight now that all section championships are in the books, Serra of San Mateo joins the top five and Lutheran of Orange joins the top 10. Folsom and Pittsburg both move up while three teams going into this first group are led by new No. 18 Helix of...
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FINAL SoCal CIF Bowl Picks
These were done after all games of Saturday, Nov. 27 but before the CIF is meeting on Sunday. Once those come out, compare and contrast in good fun to see which ones you like best. Note that we don’t know while doing this about any schools that may opt out. We hope you enjoy this […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school football and is now in its 11th week as part of the 2021-22 school year. Reported state passing leader Nicholas Coronado of Tracy Kimball also had the top passing game last week with 397 yards and five TDs. There was one...
Preseason San Diego Sec FB Team
Our next stop in our tour of the state with these preseason all-area honors is for the CIF San Diego Section. Preseason state No. 5 Cathedral Catholic has four players on first team, but is surpassed by Lincoln (which has five). There also is strong representation from St. Augustine, Torrey Pines and Mater Dei Catholic....
All-State FB 2020-21: Juniors
Following the release of our all-state sophomores yesterday, it’s time to announce those who are all-state juniors for the 2020-21 season. State Junior of the Year Noah Fifita from Servite of Anaheim went on first team for multi-purpose due to all of his rushing TDs as a QB. That led to Gardena Serra’s Maalik Murphy...
State’s All-Time NFL Starting QBs (Updated)
There were three starting quarterbacks from California high schools among the four that started in last week’s AFC and NFC championship games and it was another strong season for the state in the league in general. The most remarkable story among all of them, of course, was the return of Helix of La Mesa grad...
All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Boys Basketball Part 3)
It’s been a couple of weeks since doing the all-time all-L.A. County team on its own as part of this series, so here’s the next installment. For this one, we’re checking out the all-time top players from the CIF Central Coast Section, CIF San Diego Section, CIF Oakland Section plus those from Ventura, Santa Barbara...
Class of 21: Hot 100 On Signing Day
Football players this December weren’t able to be part of the usual signing ceremonies at their schools due to the Coronavirus pandemic, but they made the best of it virtually and still were able to be with their families. Since there were two prominent players from the last Hot 100 for this class we compiled...
All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Part 2)
Based on how these players did after high school, here is a look at three more of these teams in another short series we’re doing as we wait for the next football season to hopefully begin in the state. For this group of teams, we have the CIF San Diego Section, CIF Central Coast Section...
1981, ’94, ’08 Season Replays Week 12
This is how the season looked after the 12th 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. And at this point in those seasons things were really starting to get interesting. In 1981, there was a new No. 1...
