We can now do these rankings by division only twice each season because we have no idea what divisions teams are going to placed until the Sunday before CIF regional playoffs and then each team plays three times in five days. Final rankings will be done later next week and we’ll have more time to […]
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NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
There are a couple of CIF Southern Section D1 wild-card playoff games from Tuesday that are not included in these rankings, but all of the other top teams aren’t playing until Thursday. In this week’s rankings, the top nine teams stayed the same with the big mover being new No. 10 Moorpark. There are five...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Despite the fact it’s the most important week in high school basketball in California, we have traditionally switched from the hardwood to the baseball and softball fields this week since the available players to choose becomes so few. We also more importantly want to start looking for some players in baseball and softball who we […]
NFL Draft Highlights (2022)
California leads the nation with five high school football alums taken in this year’s first round. The first two both hail from the Ventura/L.A. County region with Kayvon Thibodeaux from Oaks Christian going at No. 5 and then Drake London of Moorpark not far behind at No. 8. We have writeups of all 22 players […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. We have more this week from baseball & softball with some season-ending performances in basketball. In boys hoops, final totals are in for San Joaquin Memorial & Dougherty Valley stars while they are not for SF Riordan’s King. In girls...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. There were many cancellations and postponements in the last week, but there were still plenty of stat star worthy efforts in boys and girls basketball. Plus, we have major milestone wins for one boys and one girls coach from Southern...
Boys BB: 2021 Preseason Primer
The boys basketball season in California is now getting underway, thanks to a lawsuit that made protocols for indoor sports feasible with restrictions a bit tougher than outdoor sports. We’re glad there is a season, but it will still be fragmented with NorCal sections already cancelling post-seasons and for the second straight year, no CIF […]
All-Decade Softball: All-State Team
Vista Murrieta ends up being the only school with three first team players for the decade with two of those from the same family. Selecting this team also shows how great California was in the 2015 season and it was a challenge to try to get as many members of the just-named 2020 U.S. Olympic...
More State Boys Athletes of the Year
We have uncovered some of the most unique athletes we’ve ever selected in the more than 30 years of doing these honors, including a world-class track hurdler who is an elite point guard in basketball and the No. 2 ranked junior golfer in the nation who was a leading player on a basketball team that...
Jaxen Turner: Grid-Hoop State POY
As we’ve known for a year, there isn’t more than a handful of legit all-state level Grid-Hoop athletes in both sports in California this year and two that clearly stood out above the rest — Jaxen Turner of Rancho Verde and Drake London of Moorpark. We break down how we came up with the tough […]
