Here are the predicted scores, what to watch for and more for each of the 12 CIF boys and girls basketball state championship games coming up this weekend in Sacramento. We will focus most on the Open Division and Division I, but also have the picks for each of the other divisions too. NorCal teams […]
Latest News
NEW All-State FB Noms (NorCal)
This is the updated, new list of nominees for the 43rd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. These are the lists we’ll start with for players from the CIF Central Coast, CIF North Coast, SF-Oakland, CIF Northern & CIF Sac-Joaquin Sections. It’s still not too late to nominate someone who is not listed. It’s only...
Preseason Northern Section FB Team
Our 10th stop in this statewide tour of leading players from top teams goes to the far north where the schools tend to be small and the rest of the state largely ignores. There are changes in the air with a new commissioner, schools competing in their final year in the section and a new...
All-Time All-State Medium FB Teams
Several days after doing a feature on the all-time all-state small schools football teams, we are following up with the best-ever grads from California’s medium-sized schools. With Firebaugh’s Josh Allen playing in the AFC title game on Sunday, the medium schools group is led by another NFL QB still playing this week — probable league...
Next Weeks Crucial for #LetThemPlay
Thousands of people gathered at more than 130 different sites located just outside of school campuses throughout the state on Friday to advocate for a safe return to high school sports. It wasn’t promoted or presented as rallies specifically for football, but there was a decided prevalence of football players in jerseys at most of […]
NEW Girls Volleyball State Top 20
After Wednesday’s CIF Southern Section quarterfinals, the D1 semis are set with Redondo playing Sierra Canyon and Marymount facing Mater Dei. All four will then no doubt go on to the CIF SoCal Open Division no matter which won wins the CIFSS crown. Torrey Pines and Cathedral Catholic haven’t yet reached the San Diego Open […]
Monarch Reign Extends To Year Two
Mater Dei of Santa Ana collects its second consecutive CIF Open Division state title with 35-21 triumph over one-time nemesis De La Salle of Concord on Saturday night at Cerritos College. It also will give the Monarchs a share of the mythical national title for the second straight year but may not be unanimous like […]
CIF Bowl Update: Only one change
With many teams on first-round playoff byes and those that did play winning quite easily, there was only one move made on this week’s CIF Bowl Boards. Instead of doing a new feature post, this week we’ll just go over that one change in a blog post and direct people to look at last week’s […]
Boys BB: Division State Ranks (3rd)
Chino Hills, Crossroads of Santa Monica and View Park of Los Angeles go up into No. 1 positions in Division I, Division II and Division IV leading into this weekend’s CIF state championships in Sacramento. Still on top are Pleasant Valley of Chico (D3) and Santa Clarita Christian (D5). The lowest ranked state finalist is...
Boys BB: Division State Ranks (1st)
We have to wait for the CIF to do its state seedings before doing any divisional state rankings because no one knows what divisions many of these teams are going to be placed. After last Sunday, here’s our first ones of the season. No. 1 teams are St. John Bosco (D1), Brentwood of Los Angeles […]
