Prep Preview: Inland Valley League

PREP FOOTBALL 2015 INLAND VALLEY LEAGUE PREVIEW (Records in parenthesis) Trivia time: When’s the last time a league’s top two teams both had coaching changes in the offseason? Seriously. Do you know? Because we don’t. Will local prep football observers be keen to dismiss Riverside Poly’s 2014 season as an aberration? Maybe an a-Bear-ration? The … Continue reading

FOUR & MORE: Big Off-Season Stories

PREP FOOTBALL 2015 BIG OFF-SEASON STORIES 1. Dennis Brown’s departure from Riverside Poly — Rumors swirled after the Bears’ loss in the CIF-Southern Section Inland Division title game, then the hammer dropped. Brown was retiring, or resigning. Why? Now we know. He’s Riverside King’s new athletic director. 2. Legend of Javon McKinley continues to grow … Continue reading

Prep Impressions: Week 3-A

I covered the Fontana Kaiser-Riverside Poly varsity football game on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013, for The Press-Enterprise and HSGametime.com, and came away thinking both teams are vastly different than they were last season. Kaiser lacks a big-time runner like it had each of the last two seasons with Marquette Washington and (to a lesser extent) … Continue reading