Now that the CIF state bowl games are set, it’s time to start looking at how our traditional five-division state rankings will shape up for this season. We hope all five who end up No. 1 in two weeks will be CIF state champions, but it’s possible in Division IV and Division V that they...
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Girls BB: Big-time frosh out for season
Based on how she performed in the Girls of Summer Caravan circuit during the Spring and Summer NCAA viewing periods there was little doubt Te-Hina Paopao of San Diego La Jolla Country Day was hands down the leading candidate for our annual State Freshman of the Year award. Note: Anyone wishing to see writeups and […]
Preseason All-San Diego Sec FB Team
Last year’s CIF Division III-A state champs from Rancho Bernardo and a state title-winning school from the past, Madison, both place four on this year’s preseason squad. Arch-rivals St. Augustine and Cathedral Catholic both land three along with defending Open Division section champ Helix.
Girls of Summer: Vegas Heat
California teams take some lumps at the Cal Sparks Ballin’ in the Ballroom but dish out some as well. A game between the Wiggins Waves and San Jose Cagers drew perhaps the most interest. The Cal Sparks team also split up into two teams, one for seniors-only and the other for underclass-only, and each one […]
FB: Top 10 from USA Dev. Games
Here is a list of 10 players from California that stood out on Saturday during the USA Football National Development Games played at UC Davis.
Girls of Summer: San Diego Classic
After her commitment to Cal, La Jolla Country Day’s Alaysia Styles seems to have risen to another level. She, along with one of the top incoming freshmen in the nation, led team competing as Wiggins Waves to 3A Division title. Clovis West of Fresno, competing as Cen Cal Chaos, also did very well during the […]
Girls of Spring: DeCosta and De Rest
For the top girls basketball prospects in the state from the Classes of 2017, 2018 and beyond, Aquira DeCosta from Stockton St. Mary’s reigns as the best. But she’s not the only one that analyst Harold Abend checked out during three springtime NCAA events. Go inside for writeups on the next 10 top prospects, the […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
It’s a bit of a shame this year as the playoffs approach is that it’s not looking like the top two teams in the state will play in the CIF Open Division title game. Usually this is because the top two are in the south, but this year the top three girls teams are in...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
It didn’t take a buzzer beater for previous No. 19 Santa Barbara to taste defeat, but it sure did for Pinewood of Los Altos Hills. Pinewood thus drops from No. 8 to No. 11 this week with San Diego teams plus Bishop O’Dowd going up. This week’s lone newcomer, meanwhile, is Oak Ridge of El...
Predicted CIF Bowl Game Matchups
Since we have picked a preseason winner for each CIF section playoff in the state, we’ll also take it one step further by going ahead and doing a preseason selection of how those teams might match up in this first year of the “everybody gets a bowl game” format. For a preseason look at the...
