Category Archives: Recruiting
All-State FB: Frosh Watch List 2023
One week after the Super Bowl and two weeks after the last of our annual all-state teams went out, we look to the future. Here is a watch list of leading freshmen football players in the state from the 2023 season who are on track to be all-state sophomores next season. Zach Benitez from Granite...
Boys BB: Introducing 2027 Class
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a first look at the state’s top ninth-graders. The freshman (2027) class has good talent at the top already making a big impact, but it’s still too early to tell how it will stack up to the hot tracking 2026 class. Some in this group...
NEW Top 65 Class of ’26 Player Ranks
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class. The sophomore class (2026) has been a bumper crop so far and could one day rate among the state’s best all-time classes. We expand our 2026 rankings from 25 to 65 for this installment...
NEW Hot 100 Class of ’25 Player Ranks
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs rolls on with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class. We just published our 2024 Hot 100 for seniors and now we take a look at the Hot 100 juniors (2025). Our Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 for this class expands from a Top...
NEW Hot 100 Class of ’24 Player Ranks
We continue our boys basketball coverage for the 2023-24 school year for Gold Club VIPs with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class, beginning with seniors (2024). Our Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 has plenty of change and a whopping 27 newcomers since our last update to close out 2022-23 and we’ll...
BB: Scholastic Live Period In North
A June Scholastic Live Period for high school basketball was first sanctioned through the CIF and NFHS in 2023 and in 2024 there will be a live period event hosted in Northern California. Boys California Live ‘24 for high school basketball will be held June 28-30, 2024 at the Roebbelen Center in Roseville. NOTE: Boys […]
Freshman FB Players To Watch (Part 1)
Here’s a first list of those now on our radar screen as ninth graders we’ll likely be following for the next few years. This is not a Class of 2027 recruiting list and another one will be done after the done after the season and after the all-state teams are done. The second ever State...
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
One of the things that always seems difficult in choosing a preseason team is finding offensive linemen, but in a bit of a twist from most years the Preseason CIF Central Coast Section has a load of them. In fact, as the old expression goes, “they’re coming out of our ears.” In another bit of...
Preseason San Gabriel Valley FB Team
This final stop from the CIF Southern Section and all of Southern California for this preseason includes Loyola of Los Angeles and the Cubs lead the way with four honorees. Bishop Amat of La Puente checks in with three. We also include the Antelope Valley to the north of the SGV and have honorees from...
Preseason Redwood Empire FB Team
Since it’s the home base for one correspondent and our associate editor, the Redwood Empire region of the CIF North Coast Section has always been a little special for us. That’s one reason why it has always been given a special breakdown for our annual tour of the state through preseason all-area or all-section football...
