Category Archives: football
Our Top 20 California School Mascots
Go through this list and see how many of these nicknames that you like the best as well, and to see the prerequisites for what we think is a great school mascot name. Then be sure to check your Twitter feed and vote for your favorites in a series of polls. At the end, we’ll […]
Preseason Inland Empire FB Team
Don’t let the somewhat lower than normal total of preseason honors candidates fool you. Corona Centennial remains the team to beat in this region of the state. One team that doesn’t have to worry about playing the Huskies in the postseason or any CIF Southern Section Division I team in the playoffs is Upland. The...
HS Football In California Quiz
This is a trivia challenge for any and all who think they have some knowledge about California prep football history. Have some fun and be sure next week to get your hands on our book, “High School Football In California,” at major bookstores or through Amazon.com.
Preseason CCS Football Team
Not surprisingly, a large number of players on both the first and second teams are from the three teams that all won CIF state bowl game titles last season plus additional standouts from the West Catholic Athletic League. Still, there were some fresh new faces last season and a couple of them are not from...
FB: State Record Updates (Part 2)
After completing state record updates for team winning streaks, losing streaks, team scoring and league win streaks, we’re jumping ahead to single season passing records for quarterbacks. We now have every reported QB in state history with 40 TD passes or more for one season and every reported QB in state history with 3,400 or […]
Preseason San Diego Sec FB Team
There were so many outstanding returning running backs that for this season we had to place four of them on offense with just one wide receiver, although there are those on defense and multi-purpose who can catch the ball as well. Schools with more than one player written up are Helix of La Mesa, Eastlake...
Preseason Sac-Joaquin Sec FB Team
This will be the sixth straight year that we are going to tour the state starting from now until the start of the 2018 football season by releasing preseason all-section, all-area and all-county football teams from eight of the 10 CIF sections (with San Francisco and Oakland included with other sections). We’re also once again...
State Athlete of Year: Gracie Figueroa
For the first time, we have an overall state girls athlete of the year who is mostly single-sport with that sport being wrestling. Selma’s Gracie Figueroa is not just a four-time CIF state champion, either. She can literally can call herself the best “pound-for-pound” athlete in the nation in her sport. And if you haven’t […]
