With back-to-back CIF Open Division state titles, it may not be much of a surprise that Mater Dei of Santa Ana also now has back-to-back Mr. Football State Players of the Year. Bru McCoy snags it for the 2018 season after former teammate (and now current teammate once again at USC) JT Daniels was more […]
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CIF Bowl Boards 1 (North & South)
With the football regular season about to end in every section of the state except two (CIF Central Coast Section & CIF Northern Section), we’re going to take our first shot at breaking down all of the possibilities for this year’s CIF NorCal & SoCal regional bowl game matchups. Keep in mind that any team […]
Another DLS masterpiece vs. Folsom
There was more of a media presence at any De La Salle home football game perhaps ever played at the Concord campus when Folsom and the Spartans met on Friday night. The history that happened between the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in Northern California wasn’t the first loss by DLS to a NorCal […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
Both Folsom and Helix will be among the top 10 in the state when they play in Friday’s CIF D1-AA state final at No. 5 and No. 7. We also will have No. 10 Narbonne taking on No. 13 Pittsburg for CIF D1-A crown this weekend plus No. 23 Serra of San Mateo meeting No....
CIF Bowl Boards 6 (North & South)
Citrus Hill of Perris is the only team that is new on this week’s boards for both Northern and Southern California. We pondered a few other changes, but essentially left projected matchups the same. This week’s two bowl boards also mention every unbeaten team in the state. And if you’re still unbeaten at this point...
Stat Stars, State Records & More
For this week’s column, we present the idea of splitting away the CIF Open Division state football final from the other divisions as part of the final weekend of the season. We also have suggestions about future high school games hosted by the San Francisco 49ers at Levi’s Stadium, show you where Heritage of Menifee’s...
Preseason FB: 10 Burning Questions
With players and coaches in the second week of a three-week dead period before they get started practicing officially for the 2017 football season, we’ll kick-start more of our statewide preview with 10 key questions that have piqued our curiosity the most. Go inside for first indications about preseason rankings of top teams, impact of […]
What If CIF State Softball Playoffs?
There’s been discussion about the future addition of CIF state playoffs in both softball and baseball. We went through all of the teams in our final divisional state softball rankings and came up with a proposed format with an Open Division and then six divisions after that. We set up brackets for each division as...
Elite 11 QB Tanner McKee
With his team at Corona Centennial having lost its only games last season 50-49 and 49-47, it doesn’t take much to figure out how this highly regarded signal caller is getting motivated for the upcoming season. We talked to him on a day in which he wasn’t participating at the Elite 11 Finals, but the […]
Girls BB Divisional State Rankings
California’s No. 1 teams according to our rankings heading into the regional semifinals continue to be Archbishop Mitty of San Jose (Open), Windward of Los Angeles (D1), Mater Dei of Santa Ana (D2), Campolindo of Moraga (D3), West Campus of Sacramento (D4) and Eastside Prep of East Palo Alto (D5). If you can’t see this...
