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Virtual Recruiting 101 | NCVA Helps Host Volleyball Recruiting Webinars
Recruiting 101: Advice for all athletes / sports. With Coronavirus Still Impeding The Return Of Competitive Play, NCVA Is Using Webinars To Help Athletes Answer Volleyball Recruiting Questions • Even during normal times, navigating through the volleyball recruiting process is hard enough. So what happens when you add a... Read more
Deep Punt | CIF Sports Sidelined Until Mid-December
In Light Of State’s Recent COVID Resurgence, CIF And Majority Of Its 10 Sections Shift To Two-Season Format Running From Mid-December To Late June • In the end, it’s a road map. A set goal. Really, that’s the best way to view Monday’s news that CIF sports will be... Read more
Local officials put early end to summer conditioning | High school sports
Summer conditioning for local athletes came to an early halt Wednesday as superintendents for school districts throughout Santa Cruz County ordered an end to the socially distanced workouts during the coronavirus pandemic. Their decision came 10 days after conditioning officially began and five days ahead of an expected announcement... Read more
Conditioning workouts canceled after East Bay athletes test positive for COVID-19
Liberty Union High School District has canceled all conditioning activities after two students participating in campus workouts tested positive for COVID-19. Another has also shown symptoms and is believed to have contracted the virus, according to administrators. Superintendent Eric Volta made the announcement through a letter posted on the... Read more
CIF-SS commissioner Rob Wigod hints that the 2020-21 sports season will not start on time
CIF Southern Section commissioner Rob Wigod was on AM-570 with Fred Roggin and Rodney Peete during their lunchtime radio show on Tuesday and gave the biggest indication yet that the 2020-21 high school sports season that is scheduled to start with fall sports in late August, including football, will... Read more
40 Greatest Baseball Teams (1-10)
This is the third time we’ve done these all-time rankings. The last posting was in 2015. Fresno 1958 and Chatsworth 2004 remain in the top two positions and have to be among the two greatest ever in U.S. history. The big change for the top 10 is the insertion... Read more
Most Moore League football teams off field until CIF’s decision regarding fall sports
Moore League football teams operating within the Long Beach Unified School District on July 6 began summer football conditioning workouts, but they were closed down after two days by the district in conjunction with the Long Beach Health Department because of the spike in coronavirus cases in Southern California.... Read more
Tracking the fall sports plans for Orange County school districts and private schools
A look at what the Orange County school districts and private schools have announced about their plans for the start of the 2020-21 school year. School campuses were shut down and all sports activities were stopped in mid-March during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools are currently working... Read more
Soquel standout Max Mendoza commits to Sacramento State | College baseball
Watsonville’s Max Mendoza, an incoming junior at Soquel High, didn’t need too much time to chew it over: Sacramento State’s baseball coaches wanted him and he wanted to be a Hornet. Mendoza, a three-sport athlete for the Knights as a freshman, committed over the weekend to play baseball at... Read more
California College State Wrestling Championships: A Look Back at 1991
Editor’s note: During this Covid-19 pandemic, sports at all levels are on hold. We are taking this opportunity to look back at significant chapters in our sports history, including the 1991 California college state wrestling championships roster. Feature image: 177 – MONDAY EQUABAR (East Los Angeles College, S) *Outstanding... Read more
Bryson’s First Pitch: Resorting To Imagination
Bryson’s First Pitch July 2020: The sports dimmer switch is dialed all the way up. Just when we thought we were out, it pulled us back in. As coronavirus cases rise throughout the state, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom scales back that sports “dimmer switch”, the July 20 target... Read more
Robledo: Let’s end the drama, virtually no chance high school sports will start before January
More than a month ago, CIF State along with its section representatives, which include the  Southern Section and L.A. City Section, said it would make a decision by July 20 about the 2020-21 sports season — a date that is fast approaching with football games scheduled in late August,... Read more