For us, it starts with Sunday’s Nike events for Northern California, which will be held at San Leandro’s Burrell Field and adjoining fields. Go inside for top players expected to attend and a lineup of features we’ll have in the next four to five weeks.
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NEW Bay Area 25 Football Rankings
Sacred Heart Prep and Bellarmine are now in the No. 3 and No. 4 positions after De La Salle and Clayton Valley. It’s also a good week for NCS finalist Pittsburg to go way up plus there’s the weirdness of ranking teams that played in CCS consolation games.
New State 25 FB Ranks (Expanded)
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Preseason FB: All-NCS/East Bay
This is the 10th preseason all-section or all-area football team we have compiled and covers schools from the East Bay region of the CIF North Coast Section, which is Contra Costa and Alameda counties, plus players from the CIF Oakland Section. This is the one, of course, dominated since the mid-1980s by Concord De La […]
Preseason FB Duel: Pitt vs. Foothill (P)
This is the eighth in a series of posts comparing two local rivals who both may be toward the top of the preseason state football rankings. These two teams actually aren’t playing each other in the regular season so the duel for us is which one has the best chance of being No. 2 in […]
Decades Of Consistency
California’s all-time winningest football schools according to win totals include the usual familiar names, but our ongoing research has uncovered some new totals worth shouting about, especially for Pittsburg. Go inside here for a look at state’s top 15 reported totals for all-time wins and for a list of newly uncovered schools that are over […]
More From Nike Football Weekend
Based on what was seen and heard at the Elite 11 Quarterback Regional, Nike Football SPARQ Combine and Nike Football Training Camp, here are five teams for next season that could be very good (including Mater Dei and Pittsburg), three unknowns from the combine who might blow up (including new RB from Freedom of Oakley)...
NEW Bay Area Basketball Rankings
There are no changes, except for one flip-flop, on the girls side this week but there are plenty for the boys. Pittsburg and Montgomery of Santa Rosa are in as newcomers while Archbishop Mitty is back up to No. 4. Check this post for the new Cal-Hi Sports Bay Area Top 20 rankings in both […]
NEW Cal-Hi Sports Bay Area Top 25
Mitty goes back in front of Marin Catholic at No. 3 while the highest riser is Valley Christian from No. 10 to No. 8. Almost all of this week’s playoff games will be section semifinals.
FB: Pittsburg surprises in scrimmage
Los Medanos Scrimmage Part 2 Getting to be in the huddle at a scrimmage with De La Salle is heaven on Earth to the high school football nut-case, but what’s even better is being in the huddle of four of the top programs in the state. That’s exactly what happened to me on Friday night […]