SBLive California Podcast

In this week's episode of the SBLive California Podcast, reporters Connor Morrissette, Lance Smith and Mitch Stephens discuss Mater Dei's 17-7 regular season win over St. John Bosco. Where did it go wrong for the Braves? How did Mater Dei get it done? Can Elijah Brown go undefeated as a starter in high school? Who wins the championship rematch if there is one?

The trio breaks it all down. 

In this week's episode of the SBLive California Podcast, reporters Connor Morrissette, Lance Smith, Bodie DeSilva and Mitch Stephens open the show discussing takeaways from high school football games they covered last week. Those include Folsom's win over De La Salle, Carlsbad's victory over Liberty Bakersfield and Thousand Oaks' win over Newbury Park.

The group finishes the show previewing matchups in Week 6. Listen here!

In this week's episode of the SBLive California Podcast, reporters Connor Morrissette, Lance Smith, Bodie DeSilva and Mitch Stephens give their thoughts on games they covered during Week 2 of the 2022 California high school football season. The group opens the show discussing takeaways from Mater Dei's 43-20 win over Corona Centennial and Serra San Mateo's 24-21 come-from-behind win against De La Salle. They then move on to breakingdown last week's results in San Diego high school football before discussing Long Beach Poly's big win over Mission Viejo. 

The group finishes the show previewing matchups in Week 3. Listen here!

In this week's episode of the SBLive California Podcast, reporters Connor Morrissette, Lance Smith, Bodie DeSilva and Mitch Stephens give their thoughts on games they covered during Week 1 of the 2022 California high school football season. The group also previews matchups in Week 2 including Mater Dei vs. Corona Centennial, Chandler (Ariz.) vs. Cathedral Catholic, Long Beach Poly vs. Mission Viejo and San Mateo Serra vs. De La Salle. 

Listen here.

In this week's episode of the SBLive California Podcast, reporters Connor Morrissette, Lance Smith, Bodie DeSilva and Mitch Stephens give their thoughts on games they covered during Week 0 of the 2022 California high school football season. 

In this week's episode of the SBLive California Podcast, reporters Connor Morrissette, Bodie DeSilva and Lance Smith answer eight burning questions to end the 2021-22 high school athletic school year. They're listed below:

1. What was your favorite memory from 2021-22?

2. What was the best individual performance you saw in 2021-22?

3. If you could choose one high school Player of the Year from the state of California across all sports who would you choose and why?

4. Which team surprised you the most this year?

5. What was your favorite interaction with a player or coach this year?

6. What was something new that you did/discovered this year?

7. What was your favorite story that you wrote in 2021-22?

8. What are you most excited about heading into next school year?

In this week's episode of the SBLive California Podcast, new Bellflower High School head football coach Jason Miller joins reporter Connor Morrissette to discuss why he chose to take the Buccaneers' job. The two break down how Miller turned around the Gunn High School football program after taking the head job at the school in 2018. Thomas also talks about his excitement to coach with his brother Keith at Bellflower, his favorite memories in coaching and much more. 

In this week's episode of the SBLive California Podcast, St. Pius X - St. Matthias Academy football coach Devah Thomas joins reporter Connor Morrissette to discuss his first year in charge of the Vikings program. The two break down Thomas' favorite moments from year one in addition to what he learned from last season. Thomas also talks about growing up with Richard Sherman, his relationship with Keyshawn Johnson and much more. 

In this week's episode of the SBLive California Podcast, St. Anthony boys basketball coach Alan Mitchell joins reporter Connor Morrissette to discuss his first year in charge of the Saints program. The two break down Mitchell's favorite moments from year one in addition to what he learned from last season. Mitchell also talks about playing at King/Drew and LA Southwest College and how his playing days impacted how he coaches. 

In this week's episode of the SBLive California Podcast, SBLive Director of Recruiting Andrew Nemec joins the show to discuss his thoughts on the complexities involved in NIL reporting. He also details the recruitments of some of his favorite West Coast football prospects in the 2023 and 2024 recruiting classes in addition to breaking down the 2023 recruitments that he views as the most intriguing.