With the first class of 100 inductees going into the new California High School Football Hall of Fame in mind (opening next month), here’s a look at lists of the all-time top players from each of the 10 sections within the California Interscholastic Federation. These are based on the first votes for the Hall of […]
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Top 25 Boys Hoops Players We’ve Seen
This list is different than the top 50 we just did of the best football players we’ve seen in our more than 40 years of doing Cal-Hi Sports in various platforms. It’s different because it’s the top 25 of our longtime boys basketball analyst and Southern California grassroots regular Ronnie Flores and also a different […]
Boys BB State Team Records Updated
All of the exclusive state boys basketball team records on this site have now been completely updated with more categories added, including three-point shooting for a season, perfect free throw shooting for a game and what happened in a 1975 game that ended 2-2 in regulation. We have lots of mentions for Mater Dei, Chino...
Boys BB: Public School State TOYs
Inspired by a comment from longtime Etiwanda head coach Dave Kleckner, we went through 50 years of California boys basketball in the long break caused by the pqndemic and selected a Public School State Team of the Year for each season. Kleckner had several teams on the list. And despite the rise of Sierra Canyon...
Girls BB All-State Nominees (Updated)
Starting this week, it will be time to begin selecting the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams for girls basketball. We already posted a first run-through of names on our virtual board of all-state girls basketball nominees nearly three weeks ago, and now we’re doing a second, updated list. More players were added and some...
MLB Draft: Top two are SoCal preps
It’s the first time two players from CIF Southern Section schools go 1-2 in the MLB Draft after Royce Lewis and Hunter Greene are selected in those positions during Monday’s MLB Draft. It’s not the first time it’s happened for California. Go inside to read about the 1980 and 2000 MLB Drafts and for a […]
Boys BB: (1989-2012 Final Overall Rankings)
Welcome to the online Cal-Hi Sports State Record Book & Almanac. These state rankings lists are for the final overall state top 20 dating from 1989 (when those rankings began) until 2012. For final rankings from 2013 to 2019, separate links can be found HERE. For more on late Cal-Hi Sports record book founder Nelson Tennis,...
Softball: Career HR State List
It was reported on Friday night that Mission Viejo’s Alyssa Palomino had tied the CIF Southern Section record for career homers with her 50th. That didn’t seem correct to us, so we took some time Saturday morning going through the Cal-Hi Sports archives and files. Although we haven’t been able to produce a printed record […]
California Super Bowl Alums
Julius Thomas of the Denver Broncos, who we once chose for Division I all-state honors in basketball, along with Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks, who we wrote about last weekend, tops group of 22 (one of the highest totals ever).
