2025 Football Week 11: Grizzlies Win Regular-Season Top 10 Poll
The postseason begins this week and the Open Division is so stacked that season-long No. 1 Lincoln is out and placed in Division I. Mission Hills, Open Division-seeded No. 1 and the leader in John Maffei’s last regular-season poll, meets visiting No. 4 Cathedral and No. 2 La Costa Canyon is host to No. 3 […]
Read More1944 Track & Baseball: Hoover (Track), San Diego, Hoover, and Sweetwater (Baseball) Are First
Baseball and track and field continued to feel the effects of the World War II with shorter seasons and limited participation. Teachers and students were answering the call from Uncle Sam and leaving for the military. Allied forces continued to fight fierce battles in Europe and the Pacific. No official count of the number of […]
Read More1990 Football: Was Morse the Number One Number One
Looking Back: The narrative originally was posted on June 9, 2014. As far back as early season 1989, Morse coach John Shacklett was able to smile through a 2-2 start and a forfeit win, supported by a belief that the best was yet to come. This was after the Tigers had defeated Orange Glen, 31-28, […]
Read More1969-70: Game by Game With Highlanders’ and Walton’s 33-0.
Looking Back: The narrative originally was posted on Nov. 25, 2018. Walton’s and Helix’ historic season, game by game, with quotes and attributions by and to Bill Center of The San Diego Union: Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1969. HELIX 74, MADISON 60. Mike Dupree scored 28 and Walton 24, off-setting a 30-point performance by Dave Smith, […]
Read More1943: V is Key
Looking Back:Â The narrative originally was posted on Nov. 5, 2012. Hoover’s Eddie Crain (31) set up Hoover touchdown before being brought down from behind by San Diego’s Everett Posey (36). No. 21 in all-white helmet is Cardinals’ Bennie Edens. The most important letter in the alphabet was V. World War II was nearing the […]
Read More1945 Track: San Diego’s Norman Stocks Led Hilltoppers, Victory Leaguers
There would be no state meet for the fourth consecutive year and the Southern California Divisional and Finals, highlights of the season, were financially inconvenient or unattractive to some schools with San Diego connections. Wartime shortages, away from the battlefields. Only El Centro Central from the Imperial Valley and Army-Navy and Escondido from the Southern […]
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