This is how the season looked after the ninth 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 remained Edison of Huntington Beach, Bishop Amat of La Puente and Long Beach Poly. A different Edison, from Fresno,...
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Super Schools with Worldly Alums
With the Los Angeles Lakers having just won the NBA Finals championship and the Los Angeles Dodgers going for a World Series title, the thought popped up to see if there were any California high schools that may have had alums in not just the World Series but also the Super Bowl and NBA Finals. […]
2008, ’81 & ’94 Season Replays (Week 6)
This is how the season looked after the sixth 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 remained Edison of Huntington Beach, Bishop Amat of La Puente and Long Beach Poly. For two of the seasons,...
2008, ’94, ’81 Season Replays (Week 3)
This is how the season looked after the third 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. There were two new No. 1 teams following this week’s games in those seasons: Edison of Huntington Beach (1981) and Long Beach...
Schools With Most All-State Players
Taking a look at the top 30 players chosen to the Cal-Hi Sports all-state boys basketball teams in the nearly 40 years of the honors being announced, it shouldn’t be a shock to see which school has had the most by a wide margin. It’s the same school that’s been coached for just about all […]
NFL Season-Opening Alumni Honor Roll
Long Beach Poly leads the state with five players on NFL 53-man opening rosters with a sixth on injured reserve. No other school has four, but several have three. We have as complete of a list as possible, given the fluid nature of rosters being altered up until the last minute due to late player...
Playing The Nickname Game
From all-time great football players like “Mean” Joe Greene and Elroy “Crazy Legs” Hirsch to all-time great basketball players like LeBron “King” James and George “The Ice Man” Gervin, nicknames are a fun part of both sports. Here’s our lists of the best ones we like in California high school history in both sports. Note: […]
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...
UPDATED Girls BB State Team Records
Since we hadn’t gone through all of our files and posted all of these state record categories before on this site, it took some time to compile all of them. But here they are. All updated girls basketball state records in the team categories. We’ll have the individuals coming next week. Amazing totals from great...
