2025-26 Basketball Week 1: John Maffei Madness
We bided our time for several weeks before tuning in to the Union-Tribune writer’s 2025-26 season weekly poll, which he began weeks earlier.  That explains our Week 1 designation for…
1935-36 Basketball, Looking Back: Great Season for Cavers; Strange End for Cardinals B’s.
Originally posted Dec. 18, 2017. Unlikely season, unlikely conclusion. —A rare playoff run by San Diego teams in the Southern California playoffs. —San Diego High marched through four rounds to…
1955 Football, Looking Back:Â Cavers in Epic Struggle
Originally posted Dec. 30, 2016. By the grace of a 17-14 advantage in first downs, San Diego High survived a 20-20 standoff with Anaheim in the CIF playoff semifinals before…
2025 Football Season Week 17: It’s a Wrap.
San Diego Section football is done for the year and the Section did well in the opinions of various voting and ratings entities: Six of Cal-Hi Sports’ top 70, nine…
1935 Baseball: Slow Beginning Didn’t Stop Hilltoppers From 10th Championship
Coach Mike Morrow’s team started with an uneven, 2-3-1 record and needed a tie-breaking playoff win over Long Beach Poly for the Coast League championship and berth in the Southern…
2025 Football Week 16: Doyle (251 Wins), Cathedral Go For Another State Championship
Cathedral’s 42-21 victory over Los Alamitos last week in the state regional Division I-AA playoffs was the 251st in coach Sean Doyle’s career. That’s right, 251. The Dons’ victory over…
2025 Football Week 15B: Final Top 10, Doyle’s All-Time Wins
MAFFEI MADNESS John Maffei’s The San Diego Union-Tribune final 2025 poll: Points awarded on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. *First-place votes. Previous rankings in (italics). NR–Not ranked. MaxPreps, Cal Preps, and Cal-Hi Sports are…
2025 Football Week 15A: San Diego Section Clubs Begin State Playoffs
Six area teams, from Granite Hills in the East suburbs of El Cajon to Valley Center in the rural North, won San Diego Section championships and are moving on and…
2025 Football Week 14: Championship Game Coaches, At a Glance
This is perhaps the finest pair of Open Division and Division I championship game matchups since the San Diego Section was formed in 1960. Mainly because of the four coaches…
2025 Football Week 13: Two No. 1’s Eliminated in Playoff Quarterfinals
Eight more underdogs overcame seeding challenges last week as the San Diego Section playoffs tightened in the quarterfinals. A second week of 26 games saw two No. 1-ranked squads go…
