This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. Since anyone from football will have a big outing this week in a state final and every one of those will be written up separately, this feature also will switch almost all to basketball next week. Football’s best this week...
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
It’s never too late to go into the TOP 50 of the state and we have three newcomers this week who are going in for the first time: Lemoore, Granite Hills of El Cajon and Marin Catholic of Kentfield. McClymonds of Oakland and Mater Dei Catholic also are moving up and could play each other...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For the third straight week we accomplish the main goal of this feature by tracking potential entries in the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book and uncovering a few diamonds in the rough who don’t always get big-time attention. Our stops this week in Southern California are in Santa Paula, Torrance and San Bernardino, while in […]
1st NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
There will be tons of movement on both sides of our board from now until that Sunday in four weeks when the CIF announces on which teams will be playing each other in this year’s regional & state title football games. Since we now have pairings and top seeds available in most CIF sections of […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
This week’s big riser among this group is Del Oro of Loomis, which is up nine spots after big win over Granite Bay. Salinas and Manteca also get two-spot bumps. The only two newcomers this week, meanwhile, are Yorba Linda and St. Bonaventure of Ventura. FOR ARCHIVES OF OUR FINAL STATE FOOTBALL RANKINGS GOING BACK...
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
In this first stab at doing these state rankings, we go 15 teams deep for the medium schools plus 12 for small schools. No. 1 teams are listed as Oak Hills of Hesperia for medium and Sacred Heart Prep of Atherton for small. Recent upset of Escalon by Hughson helps push Sac-Joaquin Section schools into […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
The biggest changes this week are among this group as Oak Hills of Hesperia jumps from the bubble to No. 31 after its win over St. Bonaventure plus Citrus Valley’s win over previous No. 20 Norco. Citrus Valley also is a newly ranked team that debuts inside top 35. This week’s other two newcomers are...
Preseason State TOP 50 Ranks (31-50)
Nine of the teams in this group did not appear in the final State TOP 50 for the 2021 season. Those teams look good in part due to key transfer quarterbacks — such as at Rancho Cucamonga and Chaminade of West Hills. There also are those with big totals of returning starters such as JSerra […]
Bill Russell & the Greatest of All-Time in every CIF sport
With the death on Sunday at age 88 of NBA icon Bill Russell, the tributes to him include being called perhaps the greatest team sports champion of all-time since he was part of 11 NBA titles for the Boston Celtics. Russell played as a high schooler at McClymonds of Oakland (where one of his teammates […]
More All-Time NBA Greats Updates
There is a section of categories in our state record book listing former California high school players who’ve gone on to win major honors in the NBA.
