It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we are doing it with a preseason Top 40 of the best boys teams from all across the state. This group is led by No. 16 Cathedral Catholic of San Diego and includes the rest of these teams down to No. 40 St. Joseph […]
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Preseason FB: Top 50 Teams (16-30)
This group begins with perennial Orange County powerhouse Mission Viejo, which has a lot of playmakers to replace but has a lot of other positives in the second year under head coach Chad Johnson. This post also has the preseason No. 1 team from the CIF Central Coast Section, the schools that won last year’s […]
Preseason San Diego Sec FB Team
Cathedral Catholic is the defending Open Division champion and probably should be regarded as the favorite to start 2019, but arch-rival St. Augustine actually has more players on this year’s preseason squad of honors candidates with four. Other schools with multiple players written up include Lincoln of San Diego and Mission Hills of San Marcos....
Boys BB All-State Nominees Part 1
This is a milestone year for the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams in boys basketball since it marks the 40th one that we have done, beginning with the work of founder Nelson Tennis, continuing all these years with editor Mark Tennis and greatly enhanced in the last 15 years by associate editor Ronnie Flores. We now […]
NEW Boys BB State Top 20 Rankings
Our new boys hoops rankings sees the top ranked team from the CIF San Diego Section go back into the rankings but we couldn’t quite yet get in the No. 1 team from the CIF Central Section. There are some other changes, the majority of which involves Trinity League teams. Speaking of the Trinity, what...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
A lot of the teams in this group naturally have fallen down from the first 25 and are done for the season with playoff losses. Still, there’s some on the rise, like new No. 28 Wilcox of Santa Clara and new No. 42 South Hills of West Covina. We also have three teams still going...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
With big game looming against IMG Academy of Florida at the Honor Bowl, Corona Centennial edges up to the No. 2 ranking this week with previous No. 2 St. John Bosco at No. 3. Major movers below the big three include St. Mary’s of Stockton (No. 15 to No. 11), Calabasas (No. 16 to No....
Preseason All-San Diego Sec FB Team
It’s been awhile since El Camino of Oceanside has been among the elite teams of the CIF San Diego Section, but this year could see the Wildcats in that class. They have three preseason all-section players, which is the same total as usual powerhouses like Helix of La Mesa, Mission Hills of San Marcos, Madison...
2016-17 All-State Grid Hoopers
To kick off our end-of-school year content of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year, we begin with a look at the state’s best football-basketball combo athletes on our 31st annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. We have even more listed as Grid-Hoop athletes of distinction and some of these players are […]
NEW Boys BB State Top 20 Rankings
After all the results from the various section championships around the state are analyzed, we have some movement in this week’s State Top 20, but are there any newcomers? The seeds don’t always match our rankings (which turned out quite well last week for us) and the dubious distinction of the most odd regional playoff...


