’11 Inland Area Football List

I covered 17 games for HS GameTime this season. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights from September to December, I saw prep football’s good and bad and mostly pristine surfaces from Ontario to Lake Arrowhead, Rubidoux to Victorville. Here’s FOMB’s best from 2011 Inland Area prep football season: BEST SLICE OF HISTORY: Watching perhaps the … Continue reading

Player Of The Year: Justin Gheorghe

Think of one of those hopeless situations in football. Say, third-and-22 with the defense blitzing. If there was a player from the Inland Area better suited to those conditions than Riverside North senior QB Justin Gheorghe, we haven’t seen him. A 6-foot-1, 185-pound left-handed scrambler, Gheorghe played his best in the worst situations. His ability … Continue reading

FOUR & MORE: Best Inland Area NCAA’ers

With college football’s bowl season beginning this weekend, here’s the Four & More best 2011 NCAA Division I football players from the Inland Area: 1. Chris Polk (Redlands East Valley) — Did the Univ. of Washington know it was recruiting a player who would turn out to be one of the best all-around backs in school … Continue reading