There ended up being 12 quarterbacks from California high schools who started at least once in the NFL last season. We lost one to a horrific leg injury — La Mesa Helix grad Alex Smith of the Washington Redskins — and one of those who started last year has since retired. We don’t know why […]
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Super Six For State In NFL Draft
It’s not a record, but the six players selected in Thursday’s first round of the 2018 NFL Draft is the most from California high schools since 1997. Five of the six also went in the first 15 picks, which also caused a look into the draft history books. The only downer was that none of […]
Bosco FB in Eye of Media Storm
Dealing with four or five star player rankings on recruiting networks, going on trips to play in games shown on ESPN and handling social media are just part of what the support staff at a big-time high school football program at a place like St. John Bosco has to grapple with every week and throughout […]
Strong-arm Californians (NCAA, MLB)
There are some former California high school players who are displaying some strong arms in recent weeks in both college football training camps and in major league baseball.
Class of ’15 FB Final Player Ranks
In getting out all of our content for other sports, we never did get to doing an updated final ranking for the Class of 2015 football players. As these young men get ready to start their freshman seasons at some of the top colleges in the country, here’s one last look at a group that...
Mr. Football 2014 Finalists
We are going with seven players from around the state who can consider themselves finalists to be the 2014 Mr. Football State Player of the Year. Several are obvious, but a few may not be. We have two quarterbacks, one running back, two receivers and two others who pretty much did everything for their teams.
Bosco Advances to Pac-5 Final
Top-ranked St. John Bosco turns to its running game to down No. 5 Long Beach Poly 33-21 to advance to its second consecutive CIF Southern Section Pac-5 title game. The Braves will face state No. 4 Corona Centennial next Saturday night in a rematch of last year’s SoCal Open Division regional bowl game.
Week 12 State Rankings Updates
The CCS Open Division pairings creates changes in the north for the bowl games and focuses more on what could be a very close decision for Division II. The rest of the bowl game rankings stay status quo. Newcomers to the State 25, meanwhile, are Tesoro, Valley Christian of San Jose and Edison of Fresno.
Mr. Football State POY Tracker
As the regular season ends, there are two clearly out in front to be the 2014 Mr. Football State Player of the Year and we may get to see both of them on back-to-back nights at the CIF state bowl games. We write up 13 others considered in our top 15 and mention 15 more […]
