I will be doing a weekly breakdown of the Hayward Area Athletic League. We had a few games start before the Christmas break so this will be my currently ranked order of the league along with a couple sentences or so about the squads. I am on vacation until Jan. 5, but thought I would start anyway. Here we go…. (Records are through Dec.19) Read the rest of this entry »

I know football is the talk of the night with De La Salle falling in the CIF Division I State Champioinship Bowl Game, but I wanted to throw out a little hoops talk.

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LIVE PHOTO SLIDESHOW: http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_11262194

LIVE PHOTO SLIDESHOW: http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_11262194

Don’t forget to join our staff writer and blogger Ben Enos here on Friday night (Dec. 19) to participate in a live blog from the CIF State Div. I championship between De La Salle and Centennial of Corona at 8 p.m. We’ll start things off around 7 p.m.

So, we figured that we’d put up our predictions for this weekend’s games. I picked the most NCS winners by a score of 3-2 (St. Vincent made the difference), so I’m looking to defend my title.

Chace’s predictions:
SMALL SCHOOL: St. Margarets 31, Hamilton-Union 14
DIVISION III: St. Bonaventure 27, Cardinal Newman 17
DIVISION II: St. Mary’s-Stockton 21, Cathedral Catholic-San Diego 20
DIVISION I: De La Salle 28, Centennial 24
OPEN DIVISION: Long Beach Poly 30, Grant-Sacramento 10 

Ben’s predictions:
SMALL SCHOOL: St. Margaret’s 28, Hamilton Union 10
DIVISION III: St. Bonaventure 31, Cardinal Newman 28
DIVISION II: Cathedral Catholic 27, St. Mary’s Stockton 17
DIVISION I: De La Salle 34, Centennial 31
OPEN: Long Beach Poly 17, Grant 14

To whet your appetite for tonight’s game, here are a couple links to info regarding the game.

Game advance by Chace Bryson
Keys to the game, game logs, probable starting lineups by Beno Enos
Writer predictions from CalHiSports.com
Photo slideshow from last week
Two Geeks and a Pigskin, state bowl edition

Hello to everyone from Southern California. After about an 8-hour trip yesterday that included more snow on the grapevine than we’ve ever seen and a nice, long stay in rush hour traffic on the 405, we made it to our hotel about 10 minutes from the Home Depot Center and we’re ready for tonight’s game.

Here’s what we’ve got planned. I’ll be on the blog around 7 p.m. to give you some insight from the Small School game between  Hamilton Union and St. Margaret’s. We’ll have a live photo slideshow updating throughout the game and Chace and I will have the play by play from press row. Tonight’s game is being shown in the Bay Area on Comcast Sports Net Bay Area, so most of you will be able to see it but hey, don’t ditch us now!

For now, check out the photos from all three of last week’s NCS games. And, check back throughout the day for updates.

Snow in Las Vegas prevented the McClymonds boys basketball team from being able to travel to the Bishop Gorman Holiday Classic and Warriors were forced to drop out of the tournament. The highlight of the tournament — and of Mack’s preseason schedule — was a likely semifinal matchup against Dominguez-Compton, the team the Warriors beat for last year’s CIF Division I state championship. Unfortunately, that matchup won’t happen as Mack is stuck in Oakland.

In the final Geeks episode of the football season, our two humble newspaper employees preview the CIF Division I state bowl game.

This is my solution to get playoffs in California.

Get rid of the section playoffs for football. Less teams will make the post season, but it also makes getting to the postseason an honor rather than the way it is no where a 2-8 Alhambra team would have made it if their coach just showed up to the meeting. I went to quite a few playoff games this year where there was little fan turnout anyways.

The plan is to create SIX divisions:

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