Here is what we consider our final post for the 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Team honors. It’s the one that’s for those on 2nd & 3rd Teams. There will still be an all-state watch list for freshmen to come, but it can’t be done like our other all-state teams. Like the first team...
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TOP 25 For First 25 Years (11-25)
Instead of doing a new set of state rankings this week while traveling, we are presenting our picks for the TOP 25 players from California high school football for the first 25 years of the current century. Many of them we’ve seen play in person. This group of players begins by going Beast Mode plus...
Preseason Redwood Empire FB Team
Since the CIF North Coast Section (both East Bay & Redwood Empire portions) still haven’t played any games yet as this feature was being finalized, the preseason label still fits. We begin with an intro to the new head coach at Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa and then it’s a lineup of players led by...
Girls BB: More State Coaches of Year
Congratulations to all of the 2024-25 Cal-Hi Sports State Coaches of the year for girls basketball. These are the ones for each of the five state divisions. As we’ve also done since the advent of the Open Division with as few as 11 teams, we combine Open and Division I so there is just one […]
Girls BB All-State Nominees (NorCal)
It’s time to get started working on the 46th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for girls basketball. And yes, we have had gender equal coverage for all-state teams in basketball for all this time. This is the first list of nominees on our board for teams that will be selected. These cover the CIF sections […]
All-State FB 2023: Medium Schools
It can be confusing what’s medium schools vs large schools, especially in the world of competitive equity playoff divisions in which schools don’t know what divisions they will be in until playoffs actually begin, but we rely on our experience of covering the state to keep the format working. CIF D2-AA finalists La Serna of […]
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
While Mater Dei is a solid favorite to win its fourth CIF Open Division state title and the De La Salle-Mission Viejo matchup in D1-AA looks like a toss up, the NorCal team is favored in just about all of the other 14 CIF state finals coming up this weekend at three JC stadiums in […]
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
For medium schools, Oak Hills of Hesperia moves up to No. 1 with tough matchups awaiting in CIF Southern Section D3 playoffs. Villa Park and Citrus Valley also get major bumps while Central Valley Christian goes back in at No. 15. For small schools, Sacred Heart Prep moves up to No. 3 after big win...
Preseason Redwood Empire FB Team
Since it’s the home base for one correspondent and our associate editor, the Redwood Empire region of the CIF North Coast Section has always been a little special for us. That’s one reason why it has always been given a special breakdown for our annual tour of the state through preseason all-area or all-section football...
Preseason State TOP 50 Ranks (31-50)
A team that lost in a CIF state final in overtime last season starts out this group of ranked squads. There’s also two teams written up that have been in the news this week for different reasons — Edison of Huntington Beach and Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills — plus teams that went 13-1, […]
