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One to Watch: Vista Murrieta 2018 WR Khalil Shakir Emerging as a Top California All-Purpose Recruit

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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The 2018 recruiting class maybe an afterthought to college football fans and the respective coaches staffing the top Division-I programs but special attention should be centered on Khalil Shakir. The rising Vista Murrieta High School talent already had the speed and playmaking abilities as a sophomore to warrant a Pac-12 scholarship offer. Shakir is […]

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Interview: Knee Injury has not Stopped D-I Programs from Offering Desert Pines DE Anthony Smith

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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA A football beast was unleashed on the Nevada high school football fields in 2014 when Anthony Smith’s natural talent collided with an emerging self-confidence. The results from a third-party perspective was overwhelming seeing Smith named Nevada D1-A Defensive MVP 2014 and First-Team All-State 2014. Looking to improve upon his great junior season stats when […]

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Interview: Sierra Canyon 2017 OL/DL Kanan Ray Talks about USC Visit

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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Nestled in the northwest corner of the San Fernando Valley is an emerging California high school powerhouse, Sierra Canyon. The Trailblazers are off to an 8-0 record this season with their closest margin of victory being two separate 25 point wins (Taft High School and Brentwood School). Head coach Jon Ellinghouse has a talented […]

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Washington Huskies Gain Verbal Commitment from Arizona Dual-Threat Daniel Bridge-Gadd

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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Life is moving fast on and off the field for Phoenix high school quarterback Daniel Bridge-Gadd. Bridge-Gadd received an offer from the Washington Huskies on Oct. 3 and after a weekend visit to Seattle verbally committed to the Huskies on Monday. Bridge-Gadd is a star quarterback for Paradise Valley High School in Arizona. The […]

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Sierra Canyon Class of 2016 WR Christian Graves Releases Mid-Season Highlight Reel

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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA When Sierra Canyon junior quarterback Niko Harris drops back into the pocket he has a talented corps of four receivers he can count on to make a big play to help move the chains or put the ball into the end zone. One of his reliable wide outs is senior Christian Graves. Graves is […]

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Cal Golden Bears Class of 2016 DE Commit Evan Weaver Releases 4-Game Highlight Reel

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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Drive and determination to get to the ball jumps off the screen when watching highlight reels. Coaches, fans, and other players can instantly tell when a player has a little more heart and determination than the guy, or in Evan Weaver’s case, the guys lining up across from him. Fighting through double- and sometimes […]

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California: Interview with Sierra Canyon Class of 2016 WR Christian Graves

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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Sierra Canyon High School in Chatsworth, California is 4-0 on the season with all cylinders firing on offense. The Trailblazers have a rising star in quarterback Niko Harris under center with big targets like Kohl Hollinquest, Eric Markes, and Christian Graves to throw to in the passing attack. Graves, 6’2”, 193 pound, is having […]

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Australian Exchange Student Brent Le Roux has One Year to make it Count

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Written by Ryan Wright Australian exchange student Brent Le Roux has a shared dream with thousands of his American peers, a Division-I football scholarship. On paper the odds are not stacked in Brent Le Roux’s favor but the reality is he has a couple of advantages most high school football players do not have, gifted size and strength along with […]

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Wednesday’s Ground Zero Commitment Ceremony Yields 10 D-I Verbal Commitments

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Written by Ryan Wright Wednesday night at Athletic Republic, the Ground Zero Announcement Ceremony was the scene for eight Class of 2016 and two Class of 2017 recruits giving their verbal commitments to Division-I programs. All 10 of the high school prep stars announcing their colleges’ of choice hailed from the state of California but colleges outside the Golden State […]

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Interview: Skipping football camps turns into snub against talented Arizona QB Cade Knox

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Written by Ryan Wright While it takes 11 guys on offense to execute a play, at least in theory, for Brophy College Preparatory three players stood out at the end of a 10-4 campaign last season, wide receiver Isaiah Oliver, running back Ryan Velez, and quarterback Cade Knox. Unfortunately for the Broncos Oliver is off taking his skill set to […]

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Helix HS receiver Mekhi Stevenson looking for respect all the way to San Jose State

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In La Mesa, California rests a really good high school football team, the Helix High School Highlanders. After completing a 10-3 season in 2014 congratulations were in order after a three-game run into the playoffs before a heartbreaking 20-13 loss to Oceanside. One of the key players for the Highlanders was Mekhi Stevenson. The 6’0”, 180 pound, playmaker was a […]

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Iowa Class of 2016 OG Jake Heinrich talks recruiting ahead of visit to Arkansas

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For those of you who have never seen Urbandale High School offensive lineman Jake Heinrich play his actions on the field can be summed up in two words – relentless bully. For those readers not familiar with the game of football being a relentless bully as an offensive lineman on the gridiron is a compliment of highest regards. If one […]

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Interview: St. Louis RB Tre Bryant running towards Big 12, SEC, and Big Ten scholarship offers

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Christian Brothers College (High School) running back Tre Bryant is just that, a running back, and a really good one at that. On inside handoffs, off tackle, cut-backs in a zone blocking scheme, and on outside sweeps, if he finds as much as a little crease he is gone. With great blocking in front of him, the Class of 2016 […]

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A Rising Star Emerges from Reed High School in Nevada

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Exclusive interview with tight end Parker Houston   A talent was unearthed at Reed High School in Sparks, Nevada during the 2014 season. Perhaps a better way to phrase what happened would be to say a position switch placed an otherwise overlooked and previously undersized player into a lead role on a championship caliber team last season. So what was […]

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Southern California DB works overtime to be one of the nation’s elite players

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Exclusive interview with Servite star Micah Croom   Sometimes being physically gifted is just not enough to be an elite football player on the high school level. A lot of top recruits can skate by on natural talent but every now and again a top talent shows the rare maturity at an early age to know what it takes to […]

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Quarterback Jordan Lawton brings promise of the future to Millikan High School

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Long Beach, California’s Millikan High School has seen some rough times over the last few years on the gridiron. From 2010 to 2012 the Rams were 2-28 but a turnaround seems to be on the horizon thanks in-part to junior to-be quarterback Jordan Lawton. After Lawton won MVP honors at the Elite Football Network Exposure Camp in Los Angeles on […]

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