Author Archives: Harold Abend
State Football Players of the Week
As the funnel begins to narrow as the playoffs in almost every one of the 10 CIF sections in the state is beginning to halve the field of teams still in action, we still not only found some hidden talent that gets statewide honors to go with local kudos, but we even had some entries […]
State Football Players of the Week
We’re starting to wind down as the football season enters the playoffs in the CIF Southern Section as well as several other sections, so the funnel begins to narrow. We didn’t have any Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book entries to track this week, which is one of the goals of this feature, but we did […]
State Football Players of the Week
This week we cover all the bases, and that included finding hidden talent worthy of statewide recognition, entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and have thanks to those who sent in nominations. Our stops this week are in San Diego, Encino and Thousand Oaks in Southern California, and in Northern California we visit […]
State Football Players of the Week
This week we not only find some hidden talent for statewide recognition, which is one of the goals of this weekly feature, but we visit the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book which is the other focus of the State Football Players of the Week. Both offensive players have totals that will get a listing. We […]
Girls BB: H.O.P.E event draws top talent
San Ramon Valley, playing as Wolfpack NorCal – Black, gets one eye-opening win at Orange County event over Etiwanda. Eagles also debuted a new freshman point guard at the event who didn’t play vs SRV. We also have players mentioned and watched from Mater Dei, Windward, Centennial of Corona, Bishop Montgomery of Torrance, Rosary of […]
State Football Players of the Week
This is a great week for the Cal-Hi Sports State Football Players of the Week feature. Two weeks ago we got a nomination from the dean of California prep journalists, Eric Sondheimer of the Los Angeles Times, and this week we got one from the top prep scribes in Northern California. Plus, there are a […]
Our Take: Woliczko chooses Iowa
In case you missed the news from early last week, Archbishop Mitty of San Jose 6-foot-2 senior wing McKenna Woliczko has committed to the University of Iowa. The big-time national recruit coming off of an ACL knee injury from last January that caused her to miss the rest of the season. While our report isn’t […]
State Football Players of the Week
We had one nomination for a NorCal player this week with 423 yards rushing and seven TDs, but it’s for a player who has been featured before. After all searching was done, instead we have a NorCal player with 431 yards rushing and seven TDs. We also have a QB with 507 yards passing. Besides […]
State Football Players of the Week
With publisher Mark Tennis off on holiday, we had to look for other ways to accept nominations to find three players from Southern California and three from Northern California worthy of statewide recognition. So, we turned to our prep sports colleagues statewide and the response was phenomenal. Not only that, but one of the goals […]
State Football Players of the Week
Although we didn’t have any entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book to track this week, which along with discovering some hidden talent that most often only gets local recognition which are the purposes of this feature, for the second-straight week we got a chance to play a rhyme game like we often like […]
