Our first stop this week is to the small town in Butte County in Northern California that was in the news to start the season for a trip it made to Maui to play another school known for once being devastated by a wildfire. We then head to another small town in the CIF Central […]
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings
A No. 1 vs No. 2 in the state matchup in the Trinity League is becoming a yearly exercise, but this week’s matchup will be the first time it has happened between Santa Margarita and St. John Bosco. We also have a new No. 10 team, Cardinal Newman going up five spots, Inglewood up three...
State’s Undefeated FB Teams Honor Roll
Here’s a list of the remaining undefeated football teams in California after games played on Oct. 8-10. We counted 60 of them. If there’s an asterisk, it means forfeits wins/losses not included. We also list all of the previously undefeated teams that lost for the first time during the week. All are listed in alphabetical...
State TOP 30 Weekend Scoreboard
The only big upset on Friday came in Ventura County where state No. 15 Pacifica of Oxnard was taken down by Newbury Park. Inglewood won a big matchup in the South Bay region of L.A. over Palos Verdes while Carlsbad defeated Mission Hills in a game involving the No. 1 vs No. 2 teams in […]
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 have several weeks to catch up with due to a family trip. We were shocked and saddened while in Norway...
State Football Players of the Week
Thanks to Harold Abend and Ronnie Flores for handling this feature for us while we were out of country for two weeks. We return and have six more top-flight players to be put in the spotlight. For Southern California, the honorees are from San Juan Capistrano, Agoura and Chino Hills. For Northern California, they’re from […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings
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...
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...
