After this year’s 2022 NFL Draft, we have updated this all-time list. It might surprise some that the NFL Draft has been going on since 1936 and there were a lot of early years in which there were only 13 picks in the first round. We still have the highest players selected from a California...
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State’s All-Time 100 Greatest Athletes (Men)
After Tom Brady of Serra High (San Mateo) earned a seventh Super Bowl title last week, we were inspired to write up our own rankings of the all-time greatest 100 athletes from California high schools. Based on CIF sanctioned sports only, we have Brady at No. 3 behind only Jackie Robinson and Bill Russell. McClymonds...
All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Part 1)
Based on how these players did after high school, here is a look at three of these teams in another short series we’re doing as we wait for the next football season to hopefully begin in the state. For this group of teams, we have the CIF Central Section, CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and Orange County....
All-Decade Football: 1990s
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...
Looking Back: Tony Gonzalez
This year’s class of new inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio includes perhaps the greatest Grid-Hoop State Player of the Year of them all, Huntington Beach High grad Tony Gonzalez, but while he was right up there among the 1993-94 state athlete of the year candidates go inside to see […]
Early specializing just doesn’t add up
For this latest in what will be a series of articles presented by our partners from KPA Elite Performance Services of Danville, some surprising facts about athletes who specialize in one sport too young and stop participating in multiple sports are revealed. The research, in fact, is strongly in favor of those who want to […]
State’s Hottest NFL Fantasy Picks
What if one were to choose an NFL fantasy team consisting entirely of those from California high schools? We thought we’d give it a try because such a team probably could be very good.
Grid-Hoop State Player of the Year: Max Redfield
Notre Dame-bound All-American defensive back from Mission Viejo also starred on 26-win basketball team. Go inside to find out who the last grid-hoop player of the year was from Orange County.
