Mater Dei takes over at the top as previously announced, Sierra Canyon joins the top five for the first time in its history and San Clemente moves up into the top 10. The 2021 spring season didn’t finish with anything else too drastic from the next to last rankings. Others moving up were Buchanan of...
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SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
This COVID-abbreviated football season still has a few games left and a couple of places in the state, but this will be our final Players of the Week feature. Our final journey takes us to the southern part of the Inland Empire, the south Orange County city of San Clemente, and Pasadena in the south. […]
State FB TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
No. 2 Mater Dei gets four TD passes from its freshman QB in 34-17 win over No. 1 St. John Bosco on Saturday night. The highest-ranked team to lose on the weekend was No. 5 Mission Viejo, which fell to South Coast League rival San Clemente (No. 12). Sierra Canyon, Cathedral Catholic and Folsom also […]
Preseason State TOP 50 (Part 1)
These are the ones with more than 45 years of work behind them, but it’s so different for this spring season. Factors such as which teams are playing which teams and building a consensus of those who do local rankings will be more important in compiling these rankings than when it’s known there are going […]
Marching Toward Football?
There are 12 days left before a lot of stakeholders believe there is a deadline of sorts for there to be high school football played anywhere in California during the 2020-21 school year. Here’s a statewide snapshot as of Wednesday, Feb. 17, of the most significant events, stories, facts and figures in the last few […]
Football Blasts From The Past
Here’s another look back in time to approximately the same week of the California high school football season from five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 years ago. At the end of what would have normally been the end of each of those seasons, we may go back even further. For this look […]
NFL Season-Opening Alumni Honor Roll
Long Beach Poly leads the state with five players on NFL 53-man opening rosters with a sixth on injured reserve. No other school has four, but several have three. We have as complete of a list as possible, given the fluid nature of rosters being altered up until the last minute due to late player...
Top 10 Grid-Hoop QBs (State History)
Three of these 10 quarterbacked teams in the Super Bowl, one played in the NBA and one was the Grid-Hoop State Player of the Year twice. Sometimes, just trying to answer a question leads to yet another list of all-time great California high school athletes. After the top 10 ranked in order, we also list...
Softball: Class of 2021 Hot 100 Players
After earlier releasing our first-ever Hot 100 player rankings for California softball for the graduating Class of 2020, we’re now looking ahead to the Class of 2021. Oklahoma scored big for the 2020s with the No. 1 and No. 2 players in the state both getting ready to play for head coach Patty Gasso. For...
State’s All-Time NFL Starting QBs (Updated)
There were nine quarterbacks from California high schools who started at least once in the NFL during the 2019 season. Our favorite for 2019 might not be obvious, but just loved it when Matt Moore went from being semi-retired and helping coach at alma-mater Hart of Newhall to filling in as the starter for two […]
