The Southern California News Group wraps up a year of excellence in high school sports by selecting the Inland area Athletes of the Year. The honorees are featured in a special section that includes lists of all of the athletes and coaches who received Inland Varsity honors in 2019-20.... Read more

In a regular feature that’s our version of prep notes with opinion mixed in, we express our support for Black Lives Matter and police reform and look at ways in which high school sports can reflect this important movement. Plus, we go over a list of important current political... Read more

Chris Morrison takes pride in saying he has been the first Black athletic director at two area high schools — St. Anthony in Long Beach, where he is now, and St. Pius X-St. Matthias Academy in Downey. He says he’s accomplished this because he was able to rise above... Read more

Some schools that belong to the same league also belong to different school districts that have different calendars for resuming sports activities. Pacifica and Tustin are in the Empire League, and play each other in varsity football on Oct. 9 at Tustin High. Pacifica is in the Garden Grove... Read more

The Los Angeles Daily News is selecting an Outstanding Senior from each of the spring sports as a way to honor some of the top student-athletes who didn’t get a chance to have a normal and complete final high school season because of COVID-19. Boys Track and Field Outstanding... Read more

Imagine landing an ideal job and being given nearly five months to prepare for the first day. A perfect scenario. That is until coronavirus arrived and everyone’s way of life turned upside down. Welcome to David Grissom’s world. The Mountain View High School principal was announced on Feb. 11... Read more

LONG BEACH — Joey Howorko seems to have it all — talent, smarts and character. The native Canadian is hopeful that recipe will result in him playing Division I college football. First things first. Howorko, who is 6-foot-3, 215 pounds, is the new quarterback at St. Anthony after transferring... Read more

High school athletes are playing sports again. And that might not be good for high school sports. Some Orange County baseball players are taking part in activities with their travel ball teams in locations like Amerige Park in Fullerton. Many others are playing in games and tournaments out of... Read more

Etiwanda’s Jahmai Mashack will likely end up playing for a big-time college basketball program, but he will get there the hard way. Hard as in, he was sickly as a child and overshadowed by his siblings, missed AAU ball two consecutive years due to rotten luck. And then the... Read more

NEW YORK — First-round draft pick Pete Crow-Armstrong of Harvard-Westlake High School and the New York Mets agreed Thursday to a minor-league contract with a $3,359,000 signing bonus, the slot value for the 19th overall selection in the amateur draft. The 18-year-old center fielder from Sherman Oaks hit .514... Read more

Even though her senior season in softball was cut way short by the Coronavirus pandemic, Norco’s Sarah Willis did more than enough in her two sports of softball and basketball to earn overall girls state athlete of the year honors. She’s the first from the Inland Empire to be... Read more

CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device. PALO ALTO — Jason Miller and Nelson Gifford are Black men who coach football at Palo Alto’s two public high schools. If you happen to follow them on Twitter — and chances are you do... Read more