All you have to do is take a look at the state’s new COVID map that reflects the latest case numbers and positivity rates to see how the latest surge with the Coronavirus pandemic is going to impact the scheduled restart of high school sports in the state in January. We’ve been down this road […]
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Reopening First Before Football (Part 6)
This is going to be a continuing series on this site until a majority of California high school football teams are practicing and getting ready for their first games. Despite the reminder that COVID-19 is still active and producing infections (including the one contracted this week by the President of the United States), more and […]
State’s 30 Greatest Teams (16-30)
Another of Mater Dei’s CIF state title teams leads off this group of all-time great units. We also have the first of the L.A. Crenshaw squads, but it might surprise you which one has landed among this bunch. Others earning all-time greatest writeups include our best from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section, two teams we wish...
BIG Changes in CIF 2020-21 School Year
As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to progress in a high percentage of counties in the state and as most school districts have announced reopening in August with no students yet back on campus, the California Interscholastic Federation announced its 2020-21 school year calendar on Monday, saying the 10 different sections could set their own calendars […]
What’s Next for CIF Fall Sports?
As schools across the state have begun to conduct conditioning workouts this week for football players, the CIF on Friday issued a statement that it won’t be known for sure what might happen for the fall sports schedule until July 20. No one knows for sure because the pandemic itself is only three months into […]
Q&A: CIFSS Commissioner Rob Wigod
Entering a summer unlike any other in his nine previous years as the commissioner of the CIF Southern Section (one of the largest high school sports organizations in the nation), we went over a myriad of topics during a Monday afternoon discussion. He talked about the opening of the 2020-21 school year, the start of […]
Final All-State FB Noms (CIFSS)
Here’s the final of three separate, updated lists of players who are currently on our board for the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. These are players from the massive CIF Southern Section. Thanks to all who have sent in information after looking at the first list. It’s still not too late to get...
All-State Football Nominees (CIFSS)
Here is the third of three, free-to-see nominations lists of players who are part of the early stages of the selection process for our annual all-state teams, which this year will be the 41st consecutive year they have been done. The first lists were from CIF sections in Northern California with the second one for […]
NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
There are lots of changes from last week’s board due to some upsets, looking at the map closer and some real juicy matchups coming to light such as possibility of longtime rivals St. Paul of Santa Fe Springs and Loyola of Los Angeles playing each other. CIF associate executive director Brian Seymour said on Tuesday...
NEW Girls Volleyball State Top 20
You could argue that there will be two separate No. 1 vs. No. 2 state showdowns on Saturday in the CIF San Diego Section Open Division and CIF Southern Section Division I championships. Officially, according to these rankings, it will be No. 1 Torrey Pines vs. No. 3 Cathedral Catholic in San Diego and No. […]
