After a quick start, No. 2 Servite can’t do much for three quarters and falls to No. 1 Mater Dei on Friday in the CIF Southern Section D1 championship. The bigger question after the night, though, involves which team the Monarchs will play on Dec. 11 in the CIF Open Division state final as unbeaten […]
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Friday’s CIF Southern Section D1 championship between longtime Orange County rivals Mater Dei and Servite isn’t just their first football meeting in a section final. It’s also the first between them as the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the state. This week’s new order also shows Alemany of Mission Hills and Cathedral Catholic...
Preseason Inland Empire FB Team
The season is now underway in the CIF Southern Section, but we still have two more of these preseason honors teams to get out from the section and this is one of them. It is the sixth stop in our tour of the state with these preseason all-area honor teams and for the Inland Empire...
FB Preview: Six Burning Questions
The first of our preseason all-section, all-area or all-county teams will begin to be pushed out over the weekend plus we’re about one week from the preseason TOP 50 team rankings, but for now here’s a big picture outlook of where things stand prior to the 2021 California high school football season. This includes questions […]
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
It ended up being just a one-week break on top of the state rankings for Thousand Oaks after the Lancers moved to 24-1 while other teams lost (Ayala and Buchanan). Harvard-Westlake and JSerra moved up to No. 2 and No. 3 after winning prestigious league titles. A big league title also will be up for...
Boys BB: 1st Reg. Season State TOP 25
Even though teams from most CIF NorCal sections haven’t played yet, a month has now passed since the first sanctioned game in Southern California and it’s time to release our first regular season boys basketball State Top 25. There are just as many important updates with regards to how the season may play out as...
Section by Section COVID Updates
The CIF Southern Section got Tuesday going with an announcement that it was canceling its fall sports playoffs and championships to give its leagues and its schools more time to get games in. The CIF Central Section and CIF L.A. City Section made the same moves in the morning as well. The San Diego and […]
1994 Season Replayed (Final)
This is how the season looked after it was completed in 1994. This is the second of three posts in which our week-by-week replays for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years — 1981, 1994 and 2008 — is concluding with one post focusing on how each wrapped...
Fall CIF finals cancelled/season delayed
With the Coronavirus pandemic surging at its worst levels yet in the state, the California Interscholastic Federation announced on Tuesday that there will be no start of fall sports practices in the state in December as scheduled and that all fall sports state regional and state championships (including football) will be cancelled. An announcement like […]
