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Here at the early stages of the 2024 football season and for the 2024-25 school year seemed to be a good time to remind everyone about all of the content that has been researched on California high school football, boys basketball, girls basketball, baseball and softball that is on this site. It’s there so people […]

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Mr. Basketball 2023: Husky Repeat

It turned out to be closer than one might have thought with one month to go in the 2023 season, but Jared McCain makes it two in a row for Centennial of Corona having the California Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year. He follows teammate Donovan Dent from last season. He’s just the third […]

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All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Boys Basketball Part 1)

After having just done this series of posts for football, we’ll now do the same for boys basketball. Based on how these players did after high school, here is a look at the first three of these teams as we wait for high school sports to hopefully begin in the state. For this group of...

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State’s 30 Greatest Teams (16-30)

Another of Mater Dei’s CIF state title teams leads off this group of all-time great units. We also have the first of the L.A. Crenshaw squads, but it might surprise you which one has landed among this bunch. Others earning all-time greatest writeups include our best from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section, two teams we wish...

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Top 25 Boys Hoops Players We’ve Seen

This list is different than the top 50 we just did of the best football players we’ve seen in our more than 40 years of doing Cal-Hi Sports in various platforms. It’s different because it’s the top 25 of our longtime boys basketball analyst and Southern California grassroots regular Ronnie Flores and also a different […]

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Boys & Girls BB State Stat Stars

Catching up on some amazing performances from the two weeks of holidays plus a few from already this week, we start out with a pair of Andersons — Amoud of Lawndale Leuzinger and Cole of Fresno Clovis West — and end with some freshmen girls who are putting up big numbers from Spring Valley to...

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A Place Packed Full Of Memories

It’s been Oracle Arena in Oakland since 2006, but the Oakland Coliseum Arena has been home to the four-time world champion Golden State Warriors since 1971. It’s also been the site of some historically significant high school basketball games (both boys and girls). With the Warriors moving to San Francisco after this season and the […]

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State Hoop History’s Huge Crowds

After the two CIF Southern Section Open Division semifinals played on Friday at USC’s Galen Center attracted a sellout crowd of more than 10,000, we thought it was a good time to go through a recollection of what we believe are the biggest crowds to have watched high school basketball in state history. We hope […]

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