We’re back almost to full schedule after family trip to Europe from Sept. 19 until Monday of this week. The first order of business is to ramp back up with a new State TOP 50 rankings package. It’s the same 10 teams at the top but in a different order thanks to De La Salle’s...
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25 Yrs Ago: 1st-ever No. 1 vs No. 2 in US
Before an October night in 2001 in Long Beach, there had never been a matchup of No. 1 vs No. 2 teams in U.S. high school football history, going by the major national rankings people were looking at in those years. But the matchup between De La Salle of Concord vs Long Beach Poly had […]
Top 100 NFL Players from Calif (1-50)
As part of our continuing coverage of top football players from California high schools, this week we’re presenting our rankings of the top 100 greatest players from the state who’ve made it to the NFL. These are rankings based on how the players have done after high school and not what they did during high...
State Football Players of the Week
For the second straight week, we’re subbing for executive editor Mark Tennis who is frolicking in Scandinavia by posting the Cal-Hi Sports State Football Players of the Week. We didn’t get as many nominations this week with a lot of top teams with byes, and that means we didn’t have a big number of performances […]
Top Takes: DLS holds off Centennial
Sorry for the delay in getting out our reactions and our own story about Saturday’s win at Cal by De La Salle against SoCal superpower Corona Centennial. It shows that for now the Spartans are once again the front-runner for the CIF NorCal Open Division berth for the CIF Open Division state final. They still […]
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...
Eli Dukes: Hazardous to Palma’s foes
From attending the football practices his father coached and anxiously waiting this season for his own opportunity to put on the pads due to a pulled hamstring, Eli Dukes from Palma High of Salinas has built his career on competition, hard work and the support of his family. Dukes entered his senior season with 5,683 […]
State Football Players of the Week
This week we return to doing the Cal-Hi Sports State Football Players of the Week with executive editor Mark Tennis on Holiday. We asked for help from statewide media sources and others on X and got several nominations. We also saw one of the award winners live on our trip to Northern California last week. […]
50 Yrs Ago: Bells vs SI Revisted
Fifty years ago this season, one of the most controversial football games ever played in the Bay Area saw Bellarmine of San Jose edge St. Ignatius of San Francisco, 16-15 in overtime, to decide the powerhouse West Catholic Athletic League title. We have a recollection from the current football information director at state No. 1...
