The Weekend State TOP 25 Scoreboard is being replaced this weekend by two scoreboards that will present details and quick reactions from the Friday and Saturday CIF regional championships. The big winners on Friday were De La Salle of Concord (D1-AA), Lincoln of San Diego (D1-AA), McClymonds of Oakland (D2-AA) and Mater Dei Catholic of […]
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Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
Going into the CIF regional finals, Yorba Linda for medium and Escalon for small can win out and add additional honor to the CIF state title both are looking for. If they lose, the final No. 1 ranking could go to a team that has lost to a large school in a higher competitive equity...
NEW NorCal/SoCal CIF Bowl Projections
This is a big week for these projections since it’s the next to last one before late Saturday night when we’ll do one more run through after all results from section championship games are in. As usual, some of the toughest decisions for the CIF will be to perhaps match title teams from the same...
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...
Select All-State FB Writeups (2003-2011)
Continuing with our efforts to add more content to this website from our massive 40 years of publishing newsletters, magazines and state record books on previous platforms, here are select all-state first team football writeups for a nine-year period beginning in 2003 and ending in 2011. Go inside to see what we wrote about first […]
1994, ’08 & ’81 Season Replays (Week 7)
This is how the season looked after the seventh 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 remained Edison of Huntington Beach, Bishop Amat of La Puente and Long Beach Poly. For 2008, the trajectory of...
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...
Top 50 Football Players We’ve Seen
Since this list comprises all of the years of the Concord De La Salle dynasty since the early 1980s, the Spartans are well-represented on this list, beginning with the top spot. Physically dominant linebacker-running back D.J. Williams from 1999 is still the best player we’ve ever seen in person from a California high school. We...
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...
Did You Know? Baseball State Records
Obtained from the only California high school state record files that exist, here’s a collection of some hard-to-believe, fun facts written up in a Did You Know? format. This spring, we’re likely going to spend a lot of the time we usually do on weekly state rankings and other features for baseball and softball updating […]
