Our third stop in our tour of the state with these preseason all-area honors is for the Orange County region of the CIF Southern Section. It is being presented on purpose right after the Long Beach-South Bay-San Gabriel Valley region since this is the one dominated by mythical national... Read more

SAN MATEO — When David Bakhtiari, the Green Bay Packers’ all-pro offensive tackle, visits his favorite hometown breakfast spot, he’s usually the biggest guy in the joint. That is, with the exception of nearby Serra High School’s current crop of offensive linemen, including their two towering tackles, 6-foot-6 Drew... Read more

For those just interested in seeing the names of players who are on the Gold Club post for this year’s All-State 2nd & 3rd Teams for baseball 2021 without having to pay us any money, here is a simple alphabetical list. If you want the full presentation and are... Read more

We’re so glad to be able to honor these 30 elite California players after not being able to do the same for 2020. We had done it for 38 years in a row. This 39th edition had many challenges and it’s much later than a “normal” season, but the... Read more

The 39th edition of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams rolls on with these players named from schools that were in CIF section or regional playoffs during the 2021 season that made them medium or small school in class. Colusa is the only team from the last season to... Read more

We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with an updated look at the close of the school year at the state’s top college prospects in the sophomore (2023) class. Our final 2023 Cal-Hi Sports Top 65 for the 2020-21 school year shows nine newcomers since our last... Read more

We obviously couldn’t do these preseason teams in a tour of the state last year and are late in getting started this year, but here we go. This first one is for the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and it’s a 30-player squad dominated by D1 title favorite Folsom. Stockton rival... Read more

LONG BEACH — His name is Hero Kanu. “It’s a name of destiny,” said Anthony Rouzier, his football coach at Santa Margarita High. Kanu plays in the Trinity League, where you always need another Hero or maybe a whole comic book library. The Trinity League is known as the... Read more

Brady Kasper, Carmel Brought up as a freshman two years ago to play special teams, Kasper will be a starter on both sides of the ball this fall for the Padres. The 6-foot-1, 190-pound linebacker will anchor the defense as a run stuffer, who can also drop back and... Read more

WATSONVILLE — St. Francis High will undergo construction to install a synthetic turf field and new multi-use stadium beginning in September, the school announced Friday at its annual fundraiser golf tournament. The stadium, which will include bleacher seating for 400 spectators on one sideline, is the first phase of... Read more

Amid another COVID-19 surge that has already caused games to be canceled in Southern California, high school football players returned to practice Friday in about half of the Bay Area, hoping for a semblance of normalcy just months after completing a spring season that was anything but routine. From... Read more

The first of our preseason all-section, all-area or all-county teams will begin to be pushed out over the weekend plus we’re about one week from the preseason TOP 50 team rankings, but for now here’s a big picture outlook of where things stand prior to the 2021 California high... Read more