This has been done for a couple of reasons, but one of them is that it’s a way for fans of our major two contributors, Ronnie Flores and Harold Abend, to more directly show them some appreciation for the work they do on behalf of boys and girls basketball high school teams, players and coaches […]
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Boys BB: Middle Schoolers Comin’ Up
Twenty-three out of the 170 of the top middle school boys basketball players who attended the Pangos Junior All-American Camp last weekend in Utah get a shout out in this special. We don’t usually give much recognition to these youngsters since they haven’t even reached high school yet, but this event has proven to be […]
Boys BB: State’s 30 Greatest Teams
For the first time ever we present our writeups of the 30 greatest boys basketball teams in state history. This follows previous presentations for football, baseball and softball. The criteria for what we’re looking for is explained in this free, introductory post and we have an alphabetical list of all 30 teams that have been […]
Coming Soon: All-Decade All-State
It’s only going to be one more week until the first posts of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State All-Decade Teams are completed. Read below to see how anyone can input their opinions for this project and get a general schedule of when all of these teams are going to be released. Football: The first all-decade all-state […]
Kawhi’s Mr. Basketball writeup (2009)
Here’s a look at the article we did in 2009 when we chose Riverside M.L. King’s Kawhi Leonard as the Cal-Hi Sports Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year. It might seem today as if it was an easy choice at the time. It wasn’t. Leonard was not a McDonald’s All-American and he was lower […]
Inside The Boys BB All-State Teams
Helping your team get to the state finals and then having a big game is perhaps the easiest way to gain an all-state honor, but what about the ones who might have made it otherwise? We go over a few of those players, but list more top sophomores and freshmen and reveal perhaps the most...
Boys BB: Flores CIF pairings reaction
Here’s what our main California boys basketball analyst and managing editor Ronnie Flores thinks about the CIF Open Division pairings (both north & south) that were announced on Sunday:
McDonald’s Girls: California factor
Brianna Turner from Texas wins the MVP but California girls make a statement in West victory Despite only one of the four California girls on the West roster starting, and even though the MVP was Notre Dame-bound Brianna Turner from Manvel, Texas, it was California girls, and one in particular, that came up huge in […]
Boys BB: Allocco a McDonald’s coach
Frank Allocco of De La Salle (Concord) reached 600 wins faster than any coach in state history, and his current 621-90 career record (16-5 this season) going into an East Bay Athletic League Friday night match-up with Pleasanton Amador Valley is at .8734. That’s third best all time in that category in the Cal-Hi Sports […]
