This year’s Grid-Hoop All-State Team is a big one for us as it marks 40 years in which we’ve been doing these honors. The idea always has been to take a special look at those best football-basketball combo athletes, some of them who also shine in a third sport. Leading the 15-man group of top […]
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More 2025-26 Grid-Hoopers We Loved
In addition to the first 15 all-state grid-hoop athletes announced this week, there were many others uncovered in our research that we found who embodied the best of grid-hoop success. We will have two more posts with honors for the 205-26 school year, which will be our State Athletes of the Year. Several of those...
Lions All-Star FB Hits 50th Year
The Stockton-Modesto area local all-star football game, which we provide support for as a way of giving back to the community in which we live, will be celebrating its 50th year on Saturday night at Wayne Schneider Stadium in Tracy. And this year, for the first time, girls flag football all-stars will get to play […]
NFL Draft: Mater Dei’s Bailey Goes No. 2
One year after Servite of Anaheim had teammates get picked inside the top eight in the first round of the NFL Draft, Trinity League rival Mater Dei of Santa Ana sees one of its own go at No. 2 in the 2026 draft. Rush end David Bailey also was on the same team as a […]
How Terry Donahue Got Inspired for Showcase Event
In a shifting college football landscape where opportunities for high school athletes are increasingly rare, the National Football Foundation (NFF) is bridging the gap by creating a direct pipeline for student-athletes through its four annual NFF Showcases. One of those showcases takes place this weekend on Saturday at Great Park in Irvine and also is […]
All-State FB: Frosh Watch List 2025
This isn’t quite the same as an all-state team, but we’re once again presenting a list of leading freshman football players in the state from the 2025 season who may be on track to be on the all-state sophomore teams next season. The already announced State Freshman Player of the Year was quarterback Marcus Washington...
Cali Super Bowl Alums 2026
We have one of the highest totals in recent years with 13 players on the roster of either the Seattle Seahawks or New England Patriots. It doesn’t quite lead the nation, however, as Texas checked in with 14. We did beat Florida this time, which has eight, and we have one of the two starting […]
All-State FB 2025: 1st Team Offense
It’s time for the final pieces of the 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Team honors to be announced, which is offense, defense and multi-purpose with no restrictions on school size or year in school. Go inside this post for writeups of the 11 players on offense plus a kicker and three of the six […]
All-State FB 2025: 1st Team Defense
Here are the 11 defensive players plus one punter and three of the other six multi-purpose players who have been named First Team Overall on the 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. There has to be a minimum of three DLs, LBs and DBs among this group and we went with a 3-4-4. Within […]
