To kick off our summer season of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year, we begin with a look at the state’s best football-basketball combo athletes on our annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. We have even more listed as Grid-Hoop athletes of distinction and some of these players are sure to […]
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All-State Football: First Team
The 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams are headlined by these 30 players, chosen regardless of school size or year in school. Three players each from CIF Open Division finalists De La Salle and Corona Centennial have all been chosen. St. John Bosco of Bellflower and Serra of Gardena also end up with two […]
CIF Major Division Bowl Breakdowns
We break down every matchup and choose a predicted score for every game coming up this weekend at Sacramento State. You can see the score in a post for every bowl game in our insider’s blog, but you need to be a Gold Club member to check out why we’re going with the teams we’ve...
NEW State Top 25 Football
Despite all of the section playoffs around the state concluding, the only new team to go into this week’s rankings is Oak Grove of San Jose. Helix and Bellarmine also moved up to No. 7 and No. 8 while La Habra and Ridgeview went up to No. 19 and No. 20, but still not in...
Sac-Joaquin Section Top 5 WR/TEs
Last week on the FOX 40 Final Quarter high school football show, hosts Jim Crandell and Kristina Werner revealed a list of the top five wide receivers (including tight ends) this season in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section, according to CalHiSports.com.
Bells beat Del Oro in last 33.7 seconds
Three lead changes in the last seven minutes shows just how close state No. 14 Bellarmine of San Jose and state No. 23 Del Oro of Loomis were to each other in a Friday night matchup. It was an improbable 34-31 win for Bellarmine and a second straight tough loss to a strong opponent for […]
Preseason Football Top 50 (Part 2)
It was 35 years ago (1980) when the very first Cal-Hi Sports state preseason football rankings were compiled. We start 2015 with the state’s top 50 preseason teams. This second group leads off with Santa Margarita in the No. 11 position. Others written up include Liberty of Bakersfield, Del Oro of Loomis, Mission Viejo, Helix...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Only one is named from each region for offense, defense and special teams and we’re going to do our best to spread it around as much as possible. This week’s honors go to Valencia, Phelan, Costa Mesa, Chico, Loomis and Sacramento.
CA goes 1-1 Friday at Honor Bowl
California split its games on the first night of the Honor Bowl in Loomis as Elk Grove defeated Damonte Ranch (Reno, Nevada) 55-7 before Kamehameha (Hawaii) defeated Del Oro (Loomis) 25-17