Three teams from our West Orange County area schools are seeded in the draws for the CIF-SS football playoffs starting this week. Eight teams will be in the playoffs. In Division 3, […]
CIF-SS football pairings told
Week 10 means fight for titles
It’s Week 10 of the local high school regular season, which – coincidently It’s Week 10 of local high school regular season, which – coincidently – is also Halloween week. For […]
League play will kick off
It’s whole new world. With the arrival of the ultimate version of “competitive equity,” high school football has been shook up, turned over and tossed up like pizza dough. The old leagues […]
Everybody’s in for Week One
Most of our West Orange County high school football teams opened the 2024 campaign with Week Zero games. Now the other two teams – La Quinta and Rancho Alamitos – will […]
It was a bumpy opening for West Orange County football teams
Week Zero opened the local high school football campaign, and it was a bumpy one for teams in our West Orange County area, winning just four games. On Thursday, Los Amigos defeated […]
The two minutes that added so very much to pro football
There have been a lot of changes in big-time sports since the first caveman invented the Cover 2 defense or the alternate possession rule, but one innovation stands out above them all […]
It’s a whole new world this season for local prep football
By Arthur David/Orange County Tribune July may seem to be a bit early for thinking about high school football, but now that the season starts in August instead of September, the first […]
Gambling, football embrace
Modern day sports, as you may know, is as much about money as it is about effort, tradition, on-field heroics and sideline clipboard brilliance. Foremost among American sports is football, but it […]
Shape of football to come
The old days are done forever. Is that good or bad? Perhaps echoing – unintentionally – the sea changes in college football’s arrangements and alignments, we shall see another bit of earthquaking […]
Gridiron gives way to hardwood
Football season – at the high school level, anyway – is done with for our West Orange County area teams and the winter sports are taking center stage. Principal among these are […]
