When our state rankings for girls hoops began in the early 1980s, they were done every week in divisions. That’s almost impossible to do today due to competitive equity seeding, but we are continuing to compile them for the final weeks of the season. No. 1 teams after Tuesday’s games include Etiwanda (Open), Salesian of […]
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Incredible play lifts Bellarmine of San Jose to big win and to a 12-spot jump in this week’s rankings. Serra (Gardena) & Long Beach Poly both now in top 30. This week’s newcomers, meanwhile, are Menlo-Atherton, Helix of La Mesa, Apple Valley, McClymonds of Oakland and Monterey Trail of Elk Grove. Go inside for breakdowns...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are two newcomers this week and both of them are in for the first time this season — San Joaquin Memorial of Fresno and Villa Park. The biggest movers among this group, meanwhile, are both from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section: Jesuit of Carmichael and Central Catholic of Modesto. Go inside for breakdowns of all...
Preseason Central Section FB Team
This is the fifth stop in our tour of the state with these preseason all-area honor teams and for this one we head back north from San Diego to the great Central Valley for the CIF Central Section (which now includes much of the Central Coast). Three teams from the same league — Clovis, Buchanan...
All-State Baseball: 2nd & 3rd Teams
The 39th installment of the Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams selections for baseball concludes with 30 players named second team overall and approximately 30 more who are third team. Any player from any school regardless of class or school size can be on second team. The third team, however, is only for seniors and only for...
NBA Draft: Big Night for State
While most basketball fans in the state were buzzing about the L.A. Lakers getting superstar Russell Westbrook in a trade, the hugs and high fives were plentiful for those young players from the state who were selected on Thursday in the 2021 NBA Draft. California actually tied a record with players going at No. 2 […]
NBA Finals Alums 2021: Just Two
There’s only a pair of ex-California high school players who’ll be in this year’s NBA Finals between the Milwaukee Bucks and Phoenix Suns, but they’ve both been all-stars and were instrumental in the Bucks winning the Eastern Conference title after their No. 1 player, Giannis Antetokounmpo, went down with a knee injury. RELATED: ALL-TIME NBA […]
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
There were no upsets in the first round of the CIF Southern Section D1 or D2 playoffs, but what might happen later this week in the second round and quarterfinals? Due to that, plus the other CIF section playoffs just getting started this week, the biggest changes in this week’s rankings were from San Joaquin...
NEW State TOP 25 Girls BB Rankings
The playoffs begin in the CIF Southern Section this weekend and while we want to try and mirror the Open Division seedings in the CIF Southern Section our rankings are not seedings and we use a completely different set of criteria that has less emphasis on some factors the Southern Section and other sections for...
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Ranks
Get used to these new state baseball rankings coming out on Mondays for the rest of the spring season. While section playoffs won’t be happening in Northern California, we found out Monday morning that they will happen for most of Southern California. For this week’s rankings, Thousand Oaks stays on top for the second straight...
