Two of the selections this week came from nominations. Keep them coming because believe it or not there’s only a few more chances for a football player to get one of these honors before we switch to basketball. We also have another entry this week into the state record book. This week’s stops are in […]
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State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. For baseball, we have players mentioned from unbeaten team at Ganesha of Pomona that is averaging more than 14 runs scored per game plus a seventh career no-hitter for Turlock Christian’s Gavin Farinha. For softball, Mountain House slugger makes state...
Vallejo On My Mind
Only a few days after watching the HBO documentary about former State Athlete of the Year C.C. Sabathia, it was time to pick up a recently published book about Vallejo’s legendary 1954 football team. Sabathia’s documentary, titled: “Under the Grapefruit Tree: The C.C. Sabathia Story” has been shown on HBO several times since it was […]
State Super 65: No. 1 to No. 10
It still has to be a De La Salle team at the top and our pick as the Spartans’ best in a close call continues to be from 2001. The big news for this year’s update is Mater Dei of 2017 being elevated all the way to No. 3. Others in this top group include...
All-Decade Football: 1950s
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...
Sac-Joaquin Top 5: FB-Baseball best
We are happy to announce that for the fifth straight year the CalHiSports.com web site and Cal-Hi Sports will be part of the weekly Final Quarter high school football show on Friday nights on the FOX 40 station in Sacramento.
Sac-Joaquin Top 5: NFL Schools
Last week on the latest FOX 40 Final Quarter high school football show of the 2016 season, hosts Jim Crandell and Kristina Werner revealed a list of the top five schools from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section that have had the most players in the NFL, according to CalHiSports.com.
All-Time State Player Rankings (RBs)
With the NFL season in full swing, this is the second in a series of posts in which we rank the top 20 all-time players from the state from every position. These rankings will be different than others we’ve done in the past in that they’ll be based strictly on how players have done after...
State FB Record Updates (Part 2)
California’s top two winningest all-time teams, Bakersfield and Long Beach Poly, are no longer on the list of the state’s best for the current decade and will be looking to bounce back in 2016. Bakersfield’s record for winning the most CIF state titles (set in the 1920s) also has been tied and could be surpassed...
Deeper Look: Lonzo vs. Jason Kidd
There has been a lot of discussion this season about Lonzo Ball’s place among the great point guards California has produced over the years. We take a more detailed look at the player he is often compared to — future NBA Hall of Famer Jason Kidd. We also have his final, accurate season and career...
