Friday night’s matchup in the CIF Southern Section D1 quarterfinals between No. 4 seed Mission Viejo and No. 5 Corona Centennial was called a Public School Super Bowl by many in the Southern California media. But did Centennial’s 25-20 triumph over the Diablos wrap up another State Public School of the Year selection for the […]
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State HOF Adds 25 More Players
The next 25 group of inductees for the California High School Football Hall of Fame have been announced after the first 100 were done two years ago for an exhibit at the Rose Bowl that was unveiled last year. Here is where the Hall of Fame stands in getting the most deserving players into induction, […]
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
While Mater Dei is a solid favorite to win its fourth CIF Open Division state title and the De La Salle-Mission Viejo matchup in D1-AA looks like a toss up, the NorCal team is favored in just about all of the other 14 CIF state finals coming up this weekend at three JC stadiums in […]
2021 Spring FB Coaching Milestones
With our state coaches of the year just announced, we must have coaching on our minds as we’ve now updated the all-time state coaching leaders list to include all reported results from the 2021 spring season. Despite the low number of games and the strange nature of the spring season due to the pandemic, there […]
2008 Season Replayed (Final)
This is how the season looked after it was completed in 2008. This is the third of three posts in which our week-by-week replays for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years — 1981, 1994 and 2008 — is concluding with one post focusing on how each wrapped...
1994, ’08, ’81 Season Replays Week 13
This is how the season looked after the 13th 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 section playoff finalists were getting done and tough decisions in some cases were looming. The...
1981, ’94, ’08 Season Replays (Week 1)
This is how the season looked after the first 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 were still Cordova of Rancho Cordova, Bishop Amat of La Puente and De La Salle of Concord (although the...
Great Seasons Replayed (’81, ’94, ’08)
Today we introduce one of the features we’ll be doing during this period of time in the fall with no high school sports in the state. It’s a 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. We begin with a look at...
State Super 65: No. 41 to No. 65
Another of St. John Bosco’s recent teams (2018) joins the party among this group, which also includes school’s 2016 CIF state champions despite two losses. Part of the reason for that is how highly regarded Mater Dei was at the time of Bosco’s avenging win in the CIF Southern Section D1 final. Both teams from...
