We were going to skip a week but we had some movement due to results at the Matt Denning Nike Hoops Classic and word is starting to come out that some games this week and MLK events like the one at Bishop O’Dowd have been cancelled or postponed. The result is we will do a...
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State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. We missed last week due to the holidays, but are back with more boys and girls basketball players who have been piling up buckets. San Ysidro’s Sebastian Medina had a 60-point outing already this week for the boys, while for...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
For our first week of basketball for this longtime feature, we hit big-time schools for one of our boys and girls honorees and then much smaller schools for the other two. We also have found state record book entries at our stop in San Jose and in the small CIF Northern Section town of Arbuckle. […]
Girls BB Schools of the Century (So Far)
After doing a State Schools of the Century (so far) list several days ago based on a points system, we came up with one for teams based on top 20 state rankings finishes since the 1999-2000 school year. The first group figured out is for girls basketball. The leader, Long Beach Poly, has only been...
2008, ’94, ’81 Season Replays (Week 2)
This is how the season looked after the second 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 were still Cordova of Rancho Cordova, Bishop Amat of La Puente and De La Salle of Concord. Mater Dei...
1981, ’94, ’08 Season Replays (Week 1)
This is how the season looked after the first 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 were still Cordova of Rancho Cordova, Bishop Amat of La Puente and De La Salle of Concord (although the...
Boys BB State Team Records Updated
All of the exclusive state boys basketball team records on this site have now been completely updated with more categories added, including three-point shooting for a season, perfect free throw shooting for a game and what happened in a 1975 game that ended 2-2 in regulation. We have lots of mentions for Mater Dei, Chino...
Class of 22 FB: Close Call At Top
For various reasons, it’s more of a mixed bag surrounding California’s top Class of 2022 football players entering the 2020 season. The group of wide receivers does seem exceptionally strong, but for this first in-depth look at the state’s leading recruits we went with a DB from Mater Dei of Santa Ana in the No....
All-Time Career State Records Updated
All individual career offensive categories for the state football record book files have now been updated heading into the 2020 season. In addition to updating all career totals for rushing, passing and receiving, we’ve also now added the career state scoring records. Every player in state history with 70 career TDs or more is now...
State’s All-Time NFL Starting QBs (Updated)
There were nine quarterbacks from California high schools who started at least once in the NFL during the 2019 season. Our favorite for 2019 might not be obvious, but just loved it when Matt Moore went from being semi-retired and helping coach at alma-mater Hart of Newhall to filling in as the starter for two […]