Author Archives: Mark Tennis
Naming Schools Not What It Used To Be
The recent furor over the name of Cesar Chavez as the name of a California high school may not be over, but it seems like it’s going to end with one school switching, one school sort of switching and the other staying put. We have a primer on who are the most popular persons that...
State TOP 30 Weekend Scoreboard
The biggest winners on a great night for football across the state included No. 3 Sierra Canyon over No. 7 Orange Lutheran and No. 10 Mission Viejo over No. 11 Pittsburg. We saw No. 6 De La Salle roll past St. Mary’s of Stockton in what was essentially a tune-up for a matchup next week […]
State Records, Stat Stars & More
Here’s where to go for updates to the exclusive Cal-Hi Sports state records, where we’ll post individual stat star highlights plus perhaps some comments or two on the hottest topics sweeping through social media. We start with a look at Manteca High celebrating its 100th season at its first home game last Friday. What other...
State Football Players of the Week
We begin in Huntington Beach for a player who would have tied a state record if all three of his kick return touchdowns in one game were all on punts or all on kickoffs. Our other SoCal honorees this week are from San Diego and Baldwin Park. For Northern California, we have our first-ever winner […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings
Sierra Canyon inches up to No. 3 but Centennial of Corona only goes down to No. 5 after new No. 4 Mater Dei’s win last week over Centennial. There’s not much other movement this week inside the top 25 until No. 18 where Carlsbad moves up as the highest-ranked team in the CIF San Diego...
Gunfire halts game in Manteca
The plan going into Friday’s matchup in Manteca between two of the top-ranked teams in San Joaquin County (where we live) was to see the celebration ceremony before it began surrounding the 100th season of Manteca High football and get some info about the possible name change of Cesar Chavez High of Stockton. FOR OUR […]
25 Years Ago: September 11, 2001
High school football teams on that horrible week 25 years ago today adapted and reflected and many of them will never forget what happened since several of them had former players who were killed. We take a look back through magazine articles we edited that year for Student Sports Magazine. We had a writer at […]
State Records, Stat Stars & More
Here’s where to go for updates to the exclusive Cal-Hi Sports state records, where we’ll post individual stat star highlights plus perhaps some comments or two on the hottest topics sweeping through social media. We start with our take on schools tightening their access to their sidelines this season. We also have new leaders for...
State Football Players of the Week
We had two QBs in Southern California that threw for seven touchdowns in a game last week, so we had to pick one of them for the SoCal Offensive Player of the Week honor. That’s the way it goes sometimes when there are no ties in team rankings or individual honors and haven’t been in […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings
It’s the same teams in the top 10 for this week, but there are changes as De La Salle, Orange Lutheran and Folsom go up and Mission Viejo has to drop to 10th. Santa Margarita maintains top ranking. The biggest movers, meanwhile, are led by Mission Hills of San Marcos (up eight spots), Archbishop Riordan...
