California ends two-year streak with just one selection in the first round of the NFL Draft as three former prep players are taken for 2021. The highest to go was Bishop O’Dowd of Oakland grad Alijah Vera-Tucker at No. 14 by the New York Jets. Two former Mr. Football State Players of the Year went […]
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What We Learned: Freedom-O’Dowd
All-State running back Ronnie Rivers may be gone, but Freedom of Oakley hasn’t lost much on offense compared to last year’s team that won 11 in a row and was top 10 in state until back-to-back losses to De La Salle and St. Mary’s of Stockton. At least that was the main takeaway after watching […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
For the third week in a row, our NorCal Special Teams Player of the Week from Bishop O’Dowd of Oakland ran back a punt for touchdown. Our SoCal choice in that category from San Diego Lincoln had three kick return scores in just last week’s game. Other honorees this week are from Santa Rosa, Sacramento, […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This week’s two highest ranked newcomers are Upland (No. 28) and Oaks Christian (No. 33). There also are now three other newcomers from the Inland Empire plus Heritage of Menifee going up 10 spots from No. 40 to No. 30. This is the 38th consecutive season for Cal-Hi Sports state football rankings. For teams ranked...
Preseason All-NCS East Bay
Our final stop for Northern California on our annual tour of the state’s top preseason players and teams based on a selection of key players is the East Bay portion of the CIF North Coast Section. This is the place where De La Salle of Concord has ruled since 1992. That should be the case...
Preseason All-State FB Teams 2017
With an all-state junior and sophomore team to go by from just last January, it might seem like doing a preseason all-state team would be easy cheesy. But in this age of rapid-fire transfers (some for players leaving the state) and others exploding up the charts in the spring and summer events, there are quite […]
The Opening NorCal Regional MVPs
Just three from the state were MVPs out of the many who participated in Sunday’s Northern California edition of Nike’s The Opening Regionals national football camp tour. But when one sees all of those who were there from Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, Washington and Oregon plus some from Canada and beyond it’s obvious that California not […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
We had not yet picked the sensational Eric Melesio of Riverside Norte Vista and we’ll do that now for SoCal and go over his record-breaking 563-yard rushing outing from last Friday. Others honored for this week are from Antelope, Stockton, Oakland, Huntington Beach and San Marcos.
