Category Archives: SportStars Magazine
All-State FB 2023: Medium Schools
It can be confusing what’s medium schools vs large schools, especially in the world of competitive equity playoff divisions in which schools don’t know what divisions they will be in until playoffs actually begin, but we rely on our experience of covering the state to keep the format working. CIF D2-AA finalists La Serna of […]
Girls State Athletes of the Year
This is the final 2020-21 state honor to be completed and it’s the girls version of the boys that was announced yesterday. By our evaluations, there were three girls that stood above all others with one who was a senior, the other a junior and the other a sophomore. The top honoree is national record-breaking […]
Burning Questions From Big Day
Governor Gavin Newsom announced at a press conference held at a vaccine clinic in Hayward on Friday that high school and youth sports (led by football) could return in the coming weeks with a March-April season. The California Department of Public Health also issued new guidelines to make that possible, including a lower case rate […]
State’s College FB Award Winners
As the national championship game was set for a Monday in Miami in 2021 and after Antioch’s Najee Harris was named as the Doak Walker Award winner for most outstanding running back, it was a good time to update and post our historical college football lists from previously published state record books. This list was […]
Top Takeaways From Latest CIF Moves
This post is more of an opinion about what could come next regarding the latest delay in California high school sports, and what to look for as it impacts state rankings, all-state teams and this web site in the coming weeks. We also reveal the results of a recent football coaches survey we did which […]
Football Blasts From The Past
For the next few weeks, we’ll go back in time to approximately the same weekend of the California high school football season from five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 years ago. At the end of what would have normally been the end of each of those seasons, we may go back even […]
Looking Ahead To State’s New Schools
It may be in the middle of a pandemic and with no athletic competitions scheduled until January, but there are still new comprehensive high schools officially opening in the state. We found two from the 2019-20 school year that are supposed to have sports for 2020-21, there is one opening this week in the CIF […]
More Boys State Athletes of the Year
We have two repeaters among this year’s state athletes of the year as wrestler Richard Figueroa of Selma and golfer Luke Potter (now at Classical Academy of Escondido) gain the top honors for juniors and sophomores after taking the same as a sophomore and freshman, respectively. We also have swimming represented for D1 with Sacramento […]
Prep Notes With A Twist
In a regular feature that’s our version of prep notes with opinion mixed in, we express our support for Black Lives Matter and police reform and look at ways in which high school sports can reflect this important movement. Plus, we go over a list of important current political leaders (and one major political commentator) […]
