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AP Athletes of Year From California

Lakers’ fans had to be happy on Saturday with the announcement that LeBron James has been named the Associated Press World Male Athlete of the Year. That got us going on compiling a list of the all-time male and female athletes of the year who are from California high schools. It has only been one […]

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Schools With The Most All-State Players

With the MLB playoffs coming to a close, we’re matching a previous project for boys and girls basketball in counting up schools with the most all-state first team honorees in baseball. We’ve got these teams going back to 1980, just in time to get a promising outfielder from Serra of San Mateo chosen twice. The […]

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WCAL vs. Moore League: All-Time Baseball Teams

We’ve often thought about the great baseball traditions for schools in Northern California’s West Catholic Athletic League and schools in Southern California’s Moore League. If you stop and think about players and teams from 40, 50, 60 and even more years back, there are no two leagues in California historically that come close and we’d […]

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Top 5 List: Best Alumni Schools

It will come as little surprise to most that the state of California produces a significant amount of sporting talent but are there some high schools more renowned for providing the gateway to a career among the elite than others?

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NEW State Top 50 FB Rankings (1-25)

It will be No. 1 St. John Bosco vs. No. 3 De La Salle in this week’s CIF Open Division state championship. And going by this week’s rankings, it also will be No. 7 Central of Fresno vs. No. 9 Sierra Canyon and No. 8 Corona del Mar vs. No. 10 San Mateo Serra in...

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NEW State Top 50 FB Rankings (1-25)

There’s a new No. 1 of course with St. John Bosco taking over for Mater Dei after last Saturday’s pulsating win over the Monarchs in the CIF Southern Section Division I championship. Others on the rise include Serra of San Mateo and Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills, but we’re not going to go along...

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CIF NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections

We still have five CIF sections to finish the regular season (Central Coast, North Coast, Northern, SF & Oakland), but it’s not too early to start thinking about potential matchups for this year’s CIF Northern California and Southern California regional football championships. It’s almost boring at the top with the way that Mater Dei, St. […]

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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard

Southern California’s Mission League opened up on Friday with not one but two big upsets (if you can call them that) as No. 11 Serra of Gardena fell to Loyola while No. 13 Alemany was stunned in the closing seconds by defending league champion Bishop Amat. State No. 2 St. John Bosco didn’t lose, but […]

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NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)

The top three remain the same, but two more Orange County teams join No. 1 Mater Dei in the top five. Helix of La Mesa logically forces its way up into this first group after knocking off previous No. 5 Cathedral Catholic, but we did not push the Highlanders ahead of another San Diego team...

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MLB Draft: Six from state 1st round

Only one played during the 2019 high school season (the others were in college), but solid total of six players from the Golden State were chosen in the first round of Monday’s MLB Draft. We have the rundown on all six plus the next highest selections in the second round, including two from the same […]

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