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...
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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...
State TOP 30 Weekend Scoreboard
Preseason state No. 1 St. John Bosco opens with road loss in Las Vegas on Friday in matchup of top two teams in most national rankings. Most of the top-ranked teams in Southern California are starting their seasons this week, but for Northern California they will all be starting next week. Two of the San […]
Preseason All-NCS Football Teams
De La Salle, Pittsburg and Cardinal Newman lead the way in a section that gets going a week later than most schools in Southern California. There’s a few other schools — San Ramon Valley and Acalanes — that have more than one player written up as well. This is the next-to-last installment in our annual...
These Schools Know How to Win
All of our state football records for categories such as schools with the most all-time wins, schools with the best all-time records, schools with multiple CIF state championships and other categories have been updated prior to the start of the 2026 season. Bakersfield and Long Beach Poly finally got another school to join them with...
Preseason State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
The era of Mater Dei and St. John Bosco dominating the state ended last season, but that’s only because another Trinity League team stepped up to win the CIF Open Division state title. The state still looks like it will be led again by the top six to seven teams in the CIF Southern Section, […]
Preseason State 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Here’s the place to go to find our breakdowns of the teams we’re going with that also are inside our preseason state rankings to begin the 2026 football season. We start out with the final team from the Trinity League, we have the CIF D2-AA state champs from last season and we have a team […]
Asterisk Talley: State Athlete of the Year
Since she competed as a Chowchilla High girls golfer during the 2025-26 school year, golfing phenom Asterisk Talley is eligible to be the Girls State Athlete of the Year. Who knows what’s in store for the current senior for the 2026-27 year, but if she’s eligible why wouldn’t the top-ranked amateur female golfer in the […]
