There are five new teams inside the top 50 this week, led by new No. 41 St. Bonaventure (Ventura) with Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco back in right behind the Seraphs. Clovis, Serra of San Mateo and La Habra are the other three. This week’s highest risers are all from Orange County — San Clemente,...
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Preseason All-CCS Football Team
Our next to last stop in our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams covers the CIF Central Coast Section. It’s been the home of the top NorCal team for 2021, 2022 & 2023 from Serra (San Mateo). The Padres lost a tremendous senior class, which is shown by more players on this team...
Salesian, Riordan impress at CaliLive
The team from Richmond that repped the north in the 2024 CIF Open Division state final and the team from San Francisco that has picked up a big recent transfer both won in their pool division final games at the huge BoysCaliLive24 scholastic event on Sunday in Roseville. We have a list of every team […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25
For these first in-season rankings, we have a whole lot of changes once we get past the top 10 and that’s to be expected in this day and age of transfers and the fact freshmen are having a bigger impact in recent years. The first four spots stayed the same and they likely will through...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. We have several players from a 70-64 game in which the winning team had two 200-yard rushers and...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In this week’s new boys basketball State Top 25 there is plenty of movement following the result of a big NorCal vs. SoCal contest played at the State Preview Classic at Colony High School. There are also two newcomers, one from the North and one from the South, from traditional power leagues in each region....
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. We begin with Long Beach Poly as a school becoming just the second in state history to reach 800 all-time wins. Individual single-game standouts include a junior QB who went 27 of 28 for 442 yards and five TDs, a...
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
This is the final stop in our tour of California through various preseason all-section, all-county or all-area football teams. We planned for the CIF Central Coast Section to go last since its teams don’t start playing for one week later than the rest of the state. Serra of San Mateo is the leader with five...
NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
In one of the wildest weekends we can ever recall in covering boys basketball in our great state, NorCal No. 1 Sheldon is removed from the NorCal regional playoffs on Saturday by the closing of the Elk Grove Unified School District and its related activities for a week, only to see the same district ask...
NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
All other basketball news seems secondary as California and the world mourns the death of Kobe Bryant, but the former Lakers’ star would want the high school games to go on and our rankings as well. We move on into another week. We have a new team in the top five, as NorCal No. 1...
