If there was any doubt that Sierra Canyon’s multi-talented Juju Watkins shouldn’t be considered one of California’s all-time great players, her now being a repeat winner as Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year ends that doubt. The accomplishment puts her in a group with some of the best players in women’s hoops history, especially […]
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NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Just about every team has now gotten out to at least one game to start the 2023 season and it didn’t take long for changes. Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks has taken over the No. 1 position with a 6-0 start, but with baseball there are always lots of changes due to pitching matchups, three-game...
NEW Boys BB Division State Ranks
Here’s the second of three divisional state rankings for the 2022-23 season. It’s after the Saturday night CIF regional semifinals but before the regional finals. The third of the divisional rankings will be the final ones done (expanded in each division) after next weekend’s CIF state championships in Sacramento. No. 1 teams after Saturday are...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The seedings are in and there weren’t any surprises when it came to the CIF Southern and Northern Regional Open Division other then the fact there really aren’t enough open-level teams to properly seed an eight-team bracket, so the CIF contracted it to just about the bare minimum by seeding only 10 teams total, five...
Girls BB: Saluting Section Champions
State No. 1 Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth keeps on rolling with CIF Southern Section Open Division title. We also have roundups of other games at the Honda Center in Anaheim and from the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento. Every section champion also deserves to get a mention so that’s what this massive list of teams […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The funnel gets narrower and narrower as we drive towards the CIF Southern and Northern Regional playoffs and then eventually to the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento for the state finals. With the ever changing playoff formats that seem to change in every CIF section in every year, the biggest change this year came in...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. And this week there were milestones galore, especially from just Tuesday night of this week when we had girls scoring 61 and 60 points in a game plus a freshman boy with 60. Last week on the same night we...
FINAL All-State FB Nominations (CIFSS)
Here is the third of three updated lists of players considered as nominees for the various 2022 season all-state football teams. These are all from the CIF Southern Section. Thanks to everyone who sent in info about these players compared to the first list of nominees that we compiled. It’s not too late to contribute...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
This second set of regular season rankings takes us through the holidays and the major tournaments before league action begins. There was no change in the first eight spots but after that we had some pretty significant movement with only one team out of the next 15 holding onto the same spot they held in...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
These first rankings since the preseason rankings that were done just under a month ago have lots of changes now that some teams have played as many as 12 games heading into the Nike TOC and West Coast Jamboree and other upcoming tournaments during the holiday season. One thing that hasn’t changed is the top...