Several days after doing a feature on the all-time all-state small schools football teams, we are following up with the best-ever grads from California’s medium-sized schools. With Firebaugh’s Josh Allen playing in the AFC title game on Sunday, the medium schools group is led by another NFL QB still playing this week — probable league...
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Salute to Rafer Johnson (1935-2020)
In the 40-plus years of following and covering California high school sports, we’ve met a lot of great people. The greatest athlete we’ve ever met so far (including late Uncle Nelson in that statement) would be Olympic legend Rafer Johnson, who died this week at age 86. There’s a good reason why the only two […]
Select All-State FB Writeups (2003-2011)
Continuing with our efforts to add more content to this website from our massive 40 years of publishing newsletters, magazines and state record books on previous platforms, here are select all-state first team football writeups for a nine-year period beginning in 2003 and ending in 2011. Go inside to see what we wrote about first […]
Senior Salutes No. 3 (Baseball/Softball)
As a consequence of the 2020 high school baseball and softball seasons being canceled after not even one-third of scheduled games were played in the state, we cannot produce all-state teams in those sports for 2020. We do not want to forget about those seniors from the Class of 2020, however, who were going to […]
CIF NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
We still have five CIF sections to finish the regular season (Central Coast, North Coast, Northern, SF & Oakland), but it’s not too early to start thinking about potential matchups for this year’s CIF Northern California and Southern California regional football championships. It’s almost boring at the top with the way that Mater Dei, St. […]
All-State Softball Nominees (Part 2)
Here is an updated, second list of nominees who are going to be considered for one or more of the 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Teams. Thanks to everyone who sent in a nomination for their favorite player (either already on the first list or just added to this second one). Nominations are not...
All-Time State Player Rankings (DBs)
Since spring football is now in full swing, here’s the final installment in this series that was begun last year with QBs, RBs and WRs and picked back up again recently with offensive linemen, defensive linemen and linebackers. We’ll do a short addition for TEs, PKs & punters soon. All of these lists will be...
Preseason All-Central Sec FB Team
It figures to be a wide open race for the top team ranking in the section, but last year’s top two of Ridgeview and Liberty (both of Bakersfield) certainly have some players that can keep them more than competitive. The section’s top player, from a college recruiting standpoint at least, is Fresno Central’s Jaylon Johnson.
State Stat Stars of the Week
With a 7-foot, 445-pound player getting attention, how about one who’s 5-foot-2 and 128? Meet Jordan Benoit of Lakewood Artesia, who shined with a 300-yard rushing game. Also highlighted this week are players from a 76-55 game and a running back from Canoga Park who apparently can count an NFL Hall of Famer as a […]
