As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final State Top 40 overall boys basketball team rankings for the 2022-23 season, the first season with no COVID-19 issues since 2018-19. There is some movement from our previous weekly Top 25 update, as teams in strong leagues deserve to move up and more D2...
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State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. It’s now mostly baseball & softball players getting into the spotlight, but there are some wraps as well for basketball, especially with where Lynwood’s Jason Crowe Jr. has been added into the state record book. We also have our first...
Boys BB: State Ranks By Divisions
Yes, we will once again have final divisional state rankings this season, but we can’t get them started until the CIF does its divisional placements and then there’s not enough time to get them done until the first round of the regional playoffs begin. No. 1 teams at this point of the sprint to the […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
There was a window of time that opened up on Monday for us to get done with this week’s honorees and it has been done. This also is to ensure that each winner can enjoy perhaps 24 hours as player of the week before locking in on a Tuesday section playoff game. Our stops this […]
Baseball All-State Nominees (SoCal)
After getting out our first look at NorCal nominees yesterday for the annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams, here’s the same thing for the CIF L.A. City Section, CIF San Diego Section and CIF Southern Section. For these lists, the Central Section is in the north. They are based on information we’ve gained through coverage […]
NEW All-State FB Nominations (CIFSS)
This is the updated, new list of nominees from the CIF Southern Section for the 43rd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. These include new players listed from additional research plus those who have been nominated by a coach or parent. It’s still not too late to nominate someone who is not listed. It’s only...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
This week is a week of strange twists in Northern California. We have a defensive honoree from Novato who will face the special teams winner from Sutter this week, and who also is in a race with the this week’s offensive award winner from Santa Clara for the NorCal rushing lead. Our Southern California stops […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
This week we have several players that had outstanding all-around performances, including one with some twists we’re not sure we’ve ever seen before. Our Southern California stops are in Orange County, Santa Clarita Valley and San Diego. In Northern California, we visit “The Valley” as the locals call the Central Section, and finish up in […]
Preseason FB (San Fernando-Ventura)
This is the final one of these preseason honors teams to get out from the CIF Southern Section and basically covers the northwest portion of it from just outside the San Fernando Valley, then out to Ventura & Santa Barbara counties. It is the seventh stop in our tour of the state with these preseason...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
With just about every team in the state finally in action, we had lots of performances to choose from. Our honorees this week took us to some familiar places — Gardena, Solana Beach and Valencia in the south, and Concord, Gilroy and Santa Rosa in the north. We hope you enjoy this free story on […]
