This is our list of every player from a California high school who has been on a roster for a team that has been in the NBA Finals championship series. Go through the names for what also is a trip through NBA Finals history. RELATED: Super Bowl Alums | World Series Alums (1968-2025) Note: This...
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All-State Football 2025: Sophomores
It’s time to get started doing the honors for the 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. These are the longest running all-state teams in California by a wide margin. As usual, we begin with those getting first, second and third team honors among sophomores. Servite of Anaheim, St. John Bosco of Bellflower, Lutheran of...
Football Individual Records: Single-Game Defense
Welcome to the online Cal-Hi Sports State Record Book & Almanac. These state record lists are for individual single-game highs on defense for football. For more on late Cal-Hi Sports record book founder Nelson Tennis, CLICK HERE. These totals are through all games of the 2024 season. To submit a record or report a correction online, CLICK HERE and...
Football Individual Records: Single-Game Receiving
Welcome to the online Cal-Hi Sports State Record Book & Almanac. These state record lists are for individual single-game highs in receiving for football. For more on late Cal-Hi Sports record book founder Nelson Tennis, CLICK HERE. These totals are through all games of the 2024 season. To submit a record or report a correction online, CLICK HERE and...
Football Individual Records: Single Season Pass Yards (Overall)
Welcome to the online Cal-Hi Sports State Record Book & Almanac. These state record lists are for individual all-time leaders for most passing yards in one season (overall). For more on late Cal-Hi Sports record book founder Nelson Tennis, CLICK HERE. These totals are through all games of the 2024 season. To submit a record or report...
FINAL Boys BB Division State Ranks
Final end-of-season state rankings by divisions for boys basketball also goes back nearly 40 years. It’s just the number of divisions and formats that have changed. We remain committed to doing them no matter how complicated the CIF continues to make its playoffs. With these rankings needing to match the final, expanded overall State TOP...
Girls of Summer: Fresh Faces
The Girls of Summer Caravan was able to visit two events this past summer in a continuing process to update readers about California’s leading girls basketball players. This story is part two and focuses on the 16th annual Myles McGowan Coaches Classic/Fresh Faces in Oakland. The first part focused on the EOT (End of the...
Preseason All-Sac-Joaquin Sec FB Team
We now head to the north for the third stop in a tour of the state through the selection of preseason football honor squads. This time, it’s our home base area with the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section. Folsom is the obvious team to beat and has many written up on this team. Among other schools with...
All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Boys Basketball Part 1)
After having just done this series of posts for football, we’ll now do the same for boys basketball. Based on how these players did after high school, here is a look at the first three of these teams as we wait for high school sports to hopefully begin in the state. For this group of...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
The old expression “the cream rises to the top” could not be more appropriate than in describing the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs because after all the grousing and social media complaints about the pool play format, the teams that were seeded No. 1 in each pool went 3-0, although each of their wins...


