With two of the top teams in Southern California playing on the road up in Northern California on Friday and with state No. 1 Santa Margarita playing a team it was supposed to crush (it did) and with No. 3 Corona Centennial on a bye, it was a rare night in which pretty much all […]
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The 10,000-Yard, 100-TD Club
It takes playing very early in one’s high school varsity career and being very good for a quarterback to either pass for 10,000 yards in a career or pass for 100 career touchdowns. As a celebration to updating all of our state passing records, here’s an all-time list of all of those quarterbacks who have […]
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’re starting with a look at the top 20 still active winningest football coaches, led by Jim Benkert of Simi Valley...
State Football Players of the Week
After the first full week of games for schools all across the state, our first honorees for 2026 season come from Culver City, West Hills and San Diego for Southern California. For Northern California, we have winners from Sutter, Antioch (a freshman) and Morgan Hill. Go inside for a free look at what these players […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings
Defending CIF Open Division state champ Santa Margarita goes back to the top after last week’s win over Corona Centennial. Preseason No. 1 St. John Bosco only drops to No. 2. Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa gets a bump after going into overtime with preseason No. 7 Folsom. We also have big rises for San...
Girls of Summer Player Rankings (Pt 2)
Nearly 200 girls now have a ranking after more than 80 have been added to the first part of this feature. The ranking system and numbers have always been a way that our longtime girls hoops editor can honor those many girls he has seen in person or through a trusted friend at many of...
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. This week, we talk about the school with the best football record so far in the 2020s, several QBs with 400...
Preseason All-State FB Teams
A lot of teams have played a game and injuries are already happening but we have reached 43 straight years of doing a preseason all-state team and we wanted to wait until finishing all of the section teams before doing those all-state teams this year. Each player already has been written up within our annual […]
Preseason All-CCS Football Teams
This is the final one of these preseason teams in our annual series. It’s still preseason for a good many teams in the state since their seasons haven’t begun. Defending Open Division champion Archbishop Riordan has five players on our preseason All-CCS first team. That is not as many, though as last year’s D1 winners...
