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...
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Class of 2020 Football: Staying Strong
As the Class of 2020 departs for college with everyone thinking about all of the usual senior traditions not happening this year due to the Coronavirus pandemic, we’ve already had one Hot 100 final player ranking issued for softball and have now finished it for football. There’s a new No. 1 as this group moves...
Saturday CIF State Finals
St. John Bosco of Bellflower makes it 3-for-3 in CIF Open Division state title game triumphs over De La Salle of Concord, but the Spartans hung around until a back-breaking 96-yard fumble return touchdown late in the fourth quarter of 49-28 contest. The CIF Southern Section also made it 3-for-3 on the day at Cerritos […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
There’s lots of shuffling this week after previous No. 7 Narbonne’s ouster from the CIF L.A. CIty Section playoffs plus previous No. 10 Cathedral Catholic of San Diego suffering an upset loss in its regular season finale. Most of these teams have now been seeded into their various section playoffs, but there’s still regular season...
NEW State Top 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
There were a bunch of showdowns last week, but the only change in the top 10 of this week’s rankings sees Cathedral Catholic grabbing the 10th spot. Sierra Canyon enjoys the biggest ascent, going to No. 18 after its triumph over previous No. 10 Grace Brethren. We also have both Pittsburg and Liberty of Brentwood...
All-Decade Football: 1960s
CalHiSports.com has been covering the best of California prep sports for over 40 years and in that time we’ve seen some great players on football fields in every corner of the state. Some lived up to all the hype surrounding them as prep players, while others never were able to duplicate their high school production...
Boys BB All-State Nominees Part 2
After the first run-through of names on our virtual board of all-state nominees, we’ve now updated that list with this one and are getting set to choose the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams. New photos also have been added to this post from the first one. More players added and some other fixes had...
Cali Super Bowl Alums 2019
Thanks to a very high total of 11 players on the Los Angeles Rams who are from California high schools, the Golden State once again is back on top with the most Super Bowl alums in this year’s game after surrendering the mantle to Texas last year. Two of the Rams’ players were teammates at […]
All-State Football Nominees (Part 1)
Believe it or not, but we’ve reached 40 years since Cal-Hi Sports founder Nelson Tennis (1936-2004) sat down and jotted down the first postseason all-state football team for California. We’ve been doing them ever since and it’s gotten bigger and better we hope each time. Just last year, we added an all-state patch ordering system […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
The game at the Santa Ana Bowl isn’t the only big one in Orange County coming up as the Sunset League title seems to be up for grabs with Los Alamitos playing Corona del Mar. Both teams moved up among this group of teams this week to No. 26 and No. 33, respectively. There also...