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The Sept. 12 matchup featuring San Fernando Valley football powers Lake Balboa Birmingham and Encino Crespi will lead off FSN Prime Ticket's 10-week schedule of high school regular-season football games.
After two months of observing and evaluating, here are some final thoughts about the summer seven-on-seven passing season -- with an eye on what could happen in high school football this fall:
Do college athletic directors know how much time and money was just wasted by their basketball coaches? And do parents understand that playing for one of the 900 or so club teams who descended on Las Vegas last week doesn't guarantee their son exposure to college recruiters?
Las Vegas is a city known for making and breaking dreams, and that's where hundreds of high school basketball players have converged this week hoping to lock up college scholarships.
Matt Barkley, a guitar-playing, spiral-throwing quar- terback from Santa Ana Mater Dei, was selected Wednesday as the Gatorade male high school athlete of the year during a celebrity-filled ceremony at the Sofitel Hotel in Los Angeles.
What happened to the days of backup high school quarterbacks waiting their turn for the chance to start instead of bailing out faster than Wile E. Coyote?
There should be no doubt that 16-year-old junior Zach Tartabull of Valencia belongs in any discussion about who ranks among the top receivers in the Southland this fall.
It isn't every high school football team whose quarterback is the son of a Hall of Famer. What sets Oaks Christian apart is that, starting this fall, it will have two.
Quarterbacks Richard Brehaut of Rancho Cucamonga Los Osos and Josh Nunes of Upland are throwing passes with so much power and accuracy this summer that some UCLA and Tennessee fans probably wish they'd skip their senior years and enroll immediately at their future colleges.
The sweltering heat that has affected Southern California this week could be the sign of a long, hot summer ahead for high school athletes, and I'm not only referring to what's happening on the field.