All-State football teams from Cal-Hi Sports have now been extended back to the 1950 season with the 1950s teams just added based on research. Earlier this year, we added the 1970s and 1960s. Similar to the newer decades and the teams we’ve picked in real time since 1979-80, many of the players are future NFL […]
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State’s All-Time 100 Greatest Athletes (Men)
After Tom Brady of Serra High (San Mateo) earned a seventh Super Bowl title last week, we were inspired to write up our own rankings of the all-time greatest 100 athletes from California high schools. Based on CIF sanctioned sports only, we have Brady at No. 3 behind only Jackie Robinson and Bill Russell. McClymonds...
Salute to Rafer Johnson (1935-2020)
In the 40-plus years of following and covering California high school sports, we’ve met a lot of great people. The greatest athlete we’ve ever met so far (including late Uncle Nelson in that statement) would be Olympic legend Rafer Johnson, who died this week at age 86. There’s a good reason why the only two […]
