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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now. Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner announced Monday that all of the LAUSD schools will begin the 2020-21 school year on Aug. 18 with online-only instruction due to the worsening COVID-19 pandemic. “Unfortunately, COVID-19... Read more

It’s looking much more unlikely there will be a 2020 high school football season in California this fall based on growing numbers of school districts across the state that will be starting up the school year in a few weeks with distance learning only. Those going with a hybrid... Read more

Raymond Brookman, a burgeoning runner and recent Santa Cruz High graduate, had a goal in mind and never strayed from the path. That path was first blazed by Brookman’s older brother, Demitri Nava. He was the first in the family to go to college. Not just any college, Massachusetts... Read more