To kick off our end-of-school year content of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year (boys and girls), we begin with a look at the state’s 15 best football-basketball combo athletes on our 36th annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. Leading the group is player of the year Jax Leatherwood of San […]
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NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
St. Francis of Mountain View & California of San Ramon move to top of NorCal and Bay Area after big weeks in their leagues. Granite Hills also gains some separation in CIF San Diego Section while Clovis West of Fresno moves up after winning once in three games against No. 2 Buchanan. This week’s newcomers...
Reopening First Before Football
Before the prospects of how or when the 2020 high school football season will get going in the state, schools have to reopen and will need to do that successfully. Here’s a look at various school districts across the state and how they stand heading into the first full week of July. We hope you […]
State Athlete of Year: Nico Young
Newbury Park standout becomes the first distance runner since German Fernandez of Riverbank from 2007-08 to gain overall State Athlete of the Year recognition. There was no CIF state track meet for Young to cap his prep career, but he was a national champion in cross country and shattered a long-standing state record in track-and-field […]
All-State FB Noms (Central, LA, SD)
Here are the second, free-to-see nominations lists from the CIF Central Section, CIF L.A. City Section and CIF San Diego. This is part of the early stages of the selection process for our annual all-state teams, which this year will be the 41st consecutive year they have been done. As usual, we welcome additional nominations […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
We get started for this feature for the 2019 football season once again selecting offensive, defensive and special teams players from two different regions of the state. The six we have come up for this week are from San Diego, Los Angeles, La Puente, Cottonwood, Danville and Bakersfield. We hope you enjoy this free story […]
State Athlete of Year: Kenan Christon
There’s been a run of phenomenal football player-track sprinters in the last 10 years in California that have been selected as State Boys Athlete of the Year, so when we have one who this year turned in the best 100-meter and 200-meter times than any of them — and top five in state history in […]
More State Boys Athletes of the Year
We have uncovered some of the most unique athletes we’ve ever selected in the more than 30 years of doing these honors, including a world-class track hurdler who is an elite point guard in basketball and the No. 2 ranked junior golfer in the nation who was a leading player on a basketball team that...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are six new teams ranked this week among these next 25, including the Lawndale squad led by freshly committed (USC) running back Jordan Wilmore. One team we saw at the Honor Bowl, Archbishop Mitty of San Jose, also gets in. For fastest risers, watch out for new No. 27 Rancho Verde (up eight spots)...
Preseason San Diego Sec FB Team
There were so many outstanding returning running backs that for this season we had to place four of them on offense with just one wide receiver, although there are those on defense and multi-purpose who can catch the ball as well. Schools with more than one player written up are Helix of La Mesa, Eastlake...
