While Mater Dei is a solid favorite to win its fourth CIF Open Division state title and the De La Salle-Mission Viejo matchup in D1-AA looks like a toss up, the NorCal team is favored in just about all of the other 14 CIF state finals coming up this weekend at three JC stadiums in […]
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2021 Spring FB Coaching Milestones
With our state coaches of the year just announced, we must have coaching on our minds as we’ve now updated the all-time state coaching leaders list to include all reported results from the 2021 spring season. Despite the low number of games and the strange nature of the spring season due to the pandemic, there […]
2008 Season Replayed (Final)
This is how the season looked after it was completed in 2008. This is the third of three posts in which our week-by-week replays for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years — 1981, 1994 and 2008 — is concluding with one post focusing on how each wrapped...
1994, ’08, ’81 Season Replays Week 13
This is how the season looked after the 13th week during our week-by-week replay for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years: 1981, 1994 and 2008. And at this point in those seasons section playoff finalists were getting done and tough decisions in some cases were looming. The...
1981, ’94, ’08 Season Replays (Week 1)
This is how the season looked after the first week during our week-by-week replay for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years: 1981, 1994 and 2008. No. 1 teams were still Cordova of Rancho Cordova, Bishop Amat of La Puente and De La Salle of Concord (although the...
Great Seasons Replayed (’81, ’94, ’08)
Today we introduce one of the features we’ll be doing during this period of time in the fall with no high school sports in the state. It’s a week-by-week replay for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years: 1981, 1994 and 2008. We begin with a look at...
State Super 65: No. 41 to No. 65
Another of St. John Bosco’s recent teams (2018) joins the party among this group, which also includes school’s 2016 CIF state champions despite two losses. Part of the reason for that is how highly regarded Mater Dei was at the time of Bosco’s avenging win in the CIF Southern Section D1 final. Both teams from...
Did You Know? Baseball State Records
Obtained from the only California high school state record files that exist, here’s a collection of some hard-to-believe, fun facts written up in a Did You Know? format. This spring, we’re likely going to spend a lot of the time we usually do on weekly state rankings and other features for baseball and softball updating […]
Football Coaching Milestones 2017
Highlights include Kevin Rooney from Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks winning his 300th game, Bruce Rollinson from Mater Dei of Santa Ana going 15-0 with his team ending No. 1 in the nation and the final seasons in remarkable careers for Bob Johnson (Mission Viejo) and Mark Louriero (Escalon). All coaches with 200 reported wins...