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2025 Football Week 6 Maffei Madness: Some Unbeaten Clubs Will Lose
Ranks of the undefeated, 12 strong, will begin to thin this week. Three head-to-head games are on the schedule and a couple regarded once-beaten squads also will be in important contests. Game of the week is Mission Hills (5-0) against La Costa Canyon (5-0), the winner positioning itself for the Avocado League stretch drive but […]
Read More1918 Football, Looking Back: San Diego Feels Global Health Crisis
The narrative originally was posted Nov. 10, 2016. A sneeze at a military facility near Junction City, Kansas, turned into a cold that led to a fever that led to a death that led to a global pandemic. The so-called “Spanish Flu”, which is said to have first struck World War I soldiers processing in […]
Read More2025 Flag Football Week 6: “Dee-fence!” is Lady Barons’ Shout
As the section’s only undefeated team, Bonita Vista (12-0) dominates with defense. Taking advantage of the newly adopted national rules that allow a pass rush without 2024’s mandated, 7-second delay, Ella Gomez leads the section with 37 sacks, and Dariyan Wilson has 17 interceptions. Holding opponents to 6 or less points in 9 of 12 […]
Read More2025 Week 5: Success Like This 2 Decades Coming for Pointers
Point Loma is 4-0 for the first time in 20 years, since the 2005 club coached by Mike Hastings was 12-1. Can the Pointers’ run the table? Not likely, with La Jolla (3-1), San Diego (4-0), and Cathedral (4-0) the next three opponents, after a bye this week. But the ghost of Bennie Edens lives […]
Read More2025 Flag Football Week 5: Bonita Vista on Top; Westview Gains
Bonita Vista’s Lady Barons remain undefeated (10-0) and on top, with a dominating 289-69 scoring advantage. Rising No. 10 Steele Canyon (11-2) may prove a test, with its even-better 375-57 points statistic. Bonita ranks 13th in MaxPreps‘ state poll, Steele 78th. The teams will meet at Steele Canyon on Sept. 27. Westview’s Lady Wolverines (9-2) […]
Read More2025 Football Week 4: About Undefeateds, Coach 100, and Hornets’ Slip
Nine teams are 4-0 as the regular season moves to the halfway mark for most squads this week. Seven, including Mission Bay, Mission Hills, La Costa Canyon, Carlsbad, Santa Fe Christian, Imperial, and El Centro Central, have been 4-0 before in this decade. Steele Canyon hasn’t been 4-0 since 2019 and Olympian needs a reintroduction, […]
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