2025 Football Week 7: Another Avocado League Game of the Week
Carlsbad, Avocado League champion five consecutive years from 2019-23 before being unseated by La Costa Canyon in 2024, finds itself in a four-way battle this season and with a showdown against Mission Hills this week. The Grizzlies, under interim coach DJ Zapata while Chris Hauser is sidelined by an administrative order, matched Carlsbad’s 6-0 record […]
Read More2025 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 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 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, […]
Read More1951, Looking Back: Heads We Win, Tails You lose!
The narrative originally was posted Oct. 10, 2012. Duane Maley felt like the guy who discovered that his wallet had been lifted after being jostled in a crowded theater. Maley ended up on the wrong side of the coin minutes after conclusion of a tight, competitive City Prep League season. Maley’s San Diego Cavemen and […]
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