Category Archives: football
Preseason L.A. City Section FB Team
We head to greater Los Angeles County to begin our series of preseason all-section football teams around the state with a look at the CIF L.A. City Section. The section has shown some positive strides after some rough post-COVID seasons, but two coaching giants within the section won’t be roaming the sidelines this fall. Will...
2025-26 Grid-Hoop All-State Team
This year’s Grid-Hoop All-State Team is a big one for us as it marks 40 years in which we’ve been doing these honors. The idea always has been to take a special look at those best football-basketball combo athletes, some of them who also shine in a third sport. Leading the 15-man group of top […]
More 2025-26 Grid-Hoopers We Loved
In addition to the first 15 all-state grid-hoop athletes announced this week, there were many others uncovered in our research that we found who embodied the best of grid-hoop success. We will have two more posts with honors for the 205-26 school year, which will be our State Athletes of the Year. Several of those...
Folsom’s Larson leads NorCal WRs
The school known for having prolific quarterbacks over the years also has had huge success with those who are catching the passes. This year’s WR leader for the Bulldogs, Rob Larson, will have the unique experience of catching balls from a big-time prospect one year ago in Ryder Lyons and this year will be doing […]
State School of Year: Santa Margarita
It’s a different mix of highly successful sports, but the Eagles have repeated as the Cal-Hi Sports State School of the Year for the 2025-26 school year. They’ve also now made it three State School of the Year honors in the last four years. It was not an easy selection since two schools — Mater […]
Cal-Hi Sports Changes For 2026-27
This isn’t a retirement announcement and we’re looking forward to our 50th year of covering California high school sports in the 2028-29 school year, but as a mostly one-person operation over the past 10 to 15 years there are going to some changes to how things are going to be covered and posted on this […]
Lions All-Star FB Hits 50th Year
The Stockton-Modesto area local all-star football game, which we provide support for as a way of giving back to the community in which we live, will be celebrating its 50th year on Saturday night at Wayne Schneider Stadium in Tracy. And this year, for the first time, girls flag football all-stars will get to play […]
NFL Draft: Mater Dei’s Bailey Goes No. 2
One year after Servite of Anaheim had teammates get picked inside the top eight in the first round of the NFL Draft, Trinity League rival Mater Dei of Santa Ana sees one of its own go at No. 2 in the 2026 draft. Rush end David Bailey also was on the same team as a […]
All-State FB: Frosh Watch List 2025
This isn’t quite the same as an all-state team, but we’re once again presenting a list of leading freshman football players in the state from the 2025 season who may be on track to be on the all-state sophomore teams next season. The already announced State Freshman Player of the Year was quarterback Marcus Washington...
