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What We Saw: DLS Wins In London

By Mark Tennis

In the first-ever game played by a California high school football team in Europe, state No. 6 De La Salle of Concord completed a five-day trip to London with a 31-9 win over the NFL Academy team at Tottenham Hot Spur Stadium. Go inside for our unique experience of covering this game and how the […]

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State Super 70: No. 11 to No. 20

By Mark Tennis

Our Sunday special this week continues the countdown of the 70 greatest high school football teams in state history. As we move toward the top 10, there are some changes in this range of teams. This is mainly because of the elevation of the Folsom High Bulldogs of 2014. Their QB, Jake Browning, in the...

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State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard

By Mark Tennis

Saturday updates now added. On Friday, there were some surprises and lower-ranked teams beating higher-ranked teams, including Frontier of Bakersfield downing Liberty of Bakersfield plus Servite of Anaheim defeating Santa Margarita of Rancho SM and Monterey Trail of Elk Grove jumping back into the top 50 mix with a win over Grant of Sacramento. Many […]

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More State Record Updates (Team)

By Mark Tennis

For this next set of state football record updates, we focus on most all-time wins for a team, best all-time records for a team and more section playoff records. As was heavily reported last season, Long Beach Poly has passed Bakersfield for being the school with the most all-time wins. De La Salle still easily […]

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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)

By Mark Tennis

The order we’ve had at the top of the state since the preseason with Mater Dei at No. 1 and St. John Bosco at No. 2 will stay the same probably until November 25 after last Friday’s showdown. This week’s rankings also sees Edison of Huntington Beach join the top 10 prior to its matchup...

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Inside State Football Records

By Mark Tennis

An amazing number of current college football quarterbacks, two of them who are among the front-runners for the Heisman Trophy, threw for more than 10,000 yards as high school quarterbacks in California. We go over all them and not just the ones at Alabama, Ole Miss and Georgia. It’s also a good time to remind […]

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New Guidelines: Advocates Speak Out

By Mark Tennis

Not long after Governor Gavin Newsom conducted a press conference on Friday in which the highlight was the announcement of new youth sports guidelines, leaders of the Golden State Football Coaches Community and the Let Them Play CA group met with the media to provide their reaction. Football wasn’t just a focus for the leaders […]

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Next Weeks Crucial for #LetThemPlay

By Mark Tennis

Thousands of people gathered at more than 130 different sites located just outside of school campuses throughout the state on Friday to advocate for a safe return to high school sports. It wasn’t promoted or presented as rallies specifically for football, but there was a decided prevalence of football players in jerseys at most of […]

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Football Blasts From The Past

By Mark Tennis

We got a little bit off schedule last week due to all the World Series-related posts so this week’s Blasts From The Past isn’t that far removed from last week. It’s still another look back in time to approximately the same weekend of the California high school football season from five, 10, 15, 20, 25, […]

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Bosco-DLS rematch set for Jan. 8

By Mark Tennis

The two schools that met last December for the CIF Open Division state title announced on Wednesday that they’ve agreed to play in a non-league game to open the 2021 January season at St. John Bosco of Bellflower. It’s not just the first time that two teams from the Open Division state finals are playing […]

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