Now that we're a few weeks into the high school football season, it's safe to say that we know a good amount regarding many of the nation's top programs.
However, that doesn't mean surprises can't happen. This week's slate of action is a prime example of what we may likely see going forward as many interstate showdowns are coming to an end and most programs are turning their attention to in-state foes.
Here are the top storylines revolving around Super 25 teams from the fourth week of the season.
Note: As of this writing, No. 5 Santa Margarita (CA), No. 10 St. John Bosco (CA) and No. 18 North Shore (TX) had not played.
Final Scores: USA TODAY Sports Super 25, Week 4

#note #santa #margarita

We've got a West Coast showcase on our hands Friday, Sept. 11.
Mater Dei, ranked No. 14 in USA TODAY Sports' latest Super 25 rankings, will play host to No. 7 Centennial in a battle between two of Southern California's best. The Monarchs are unbeaten, while the Huskies have one loss, which came at the hands of No. 4 Santa Margarita.
And with two nationally ranked teams meeting this early in the season, there's plenty at stake in Southern California.
Mater Dei enters Friday night looking to continue its perfect start and make another statement against one of the nation's premier programs. The Monarchs have become synonymous with elite high school football, routinely producing Power Four recruits and NFL talent while competing for championships at the state and national levels.
Former St. John Bosco standout: Nebraska football commit suspended for senior year

#mater #hands #Football #west

Last year when Centennial (Corona, CA) and Santa Margarita (Rancho Santa Margarita) squared off, it ended up being an instant classic.
Santa Magarita picked up the six-point home win in overtime.
This year, the two sides face off again, this time in Corona, with both programs ranked in the USA TODAY Sports Super 25 rankings.
If you're not able to make it to Corona on Friday night, here's everything you need to know about both teams and how you'll be able to watch the showdown from home.
Watch Margarita vs. Centennial on live NFHS Network

#corona #santa #rancho

With the 2026 high school football season starting this week - my 43rd consecutive covering the Bay Area and 26th for the Chronicle - here are 10 storylines to follow.
After going 284-0-1 against North Coast Section opponents over the past 35 years - and 33 straight section crowns - the obvious question is, can anyone possibly beat the Spartans? It's truly an age-old quandary with a profound and direct response: no. However, the team to last beat them, the Pirates of Pittsburg (35-27 in the 1991 NCS 3-A finals), has most certainly gained ground, losing by single scores the last three meetings (30-23, 10-7 and 24-17).
With former longtime defensive coordinator Charlie Ramirez in his fourth season as head coach, a Division I college prospect quarterback in junior JaVale Jones and a boatload of future college players led by speedy junior receiver Kenneth Ward, edge rusher Terrance Murphy (Fresno State) and two-way playmaker Isaiah Harrison, the Pirates appear equipped to pull off the seemingly impossible. More importantly, playing the Spartans to the final horn in the playoffs recently, there is an internal belief they can slay the dragon.
That said, the 2026 Spartans are as stacked as ever, minus one question mark at quarterback.
With an influx of transfers, playmakers, gigantic linemen - the offensive front averages well over 300 pounds - a top-end quarterback in LT Retamoza, and a coaching infusion from Southern California (first-year head coach Kenny McMillan and **** istants Sean Embree and Ryan Crowe all coached at defending state Open Division champion Santa Margarita-Rancho Santa Margarita) - Cardinal Newman-Santa Rosa might be primed to end De La Salle's streak in a Week 2 (Sept. 4) game in Concord.

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Stock Spirits Group has secured a listing in the UK for some of its Sierra RTD Tequila ******* tails with local big-box retailer Morrisons.
The group sold its lime and strawberry-flavoured Tequila RTDs in UK Lidl stores last year for a limited period.
"Morrisons is our first full listing for the RTDs", Rob Curteis, managing director of Stock Spirits' UK distributor The Drinks Company, told Just Drinks.
The group's 6% abv Sierra Grapefruit Paloma and Lime Margarita RTDs will be available at 460 Morrisons supermarkets from 7 September, a statement from the Sierra brand said.
The 250ml ******* tail cans will be sold with an RRP of £2.60 ($3.54) per can. The drinks will also be part of the retailer's "multi-buy" deal of four drinks for £6.00 and five for £7.00.

#sierra #group #lime #listing

HIGH SCHOOL FLAG FOOTBALL
TUESDAY'S RESULTS
Southern Section
Agoura 28, Oak Park 6
Anaheim 32, El Dorado 6
Arlington 28, Nuview Bridge 0
Ayala 12, Shadow Hills 0
Burbank Burroughs 6, Hart 0
California Military Institute 45, Lakeside 13
Canyon Springs 14, Vista del Lago 0
Cerritos Valley Christian 20, Bellflower 0
Chino Hills 6, Capistrano Valley 0
Colony 13, Garey 7
Colton 24, Carter 0
Dos Pueblos 21, Westlake 19
El Segundo 7, Peninsula 6
Elsinore 26, San Jacinto 0
Golden Valley 8, Lancaster 6
Heritage 19, Orange Vista 6
Mater Dei 38, Esperanza 0
Mission Viejo 12, Crean Lutheran 6
Monrovia 44, Arroyo 0
Lakewood St. Joseph 26, Redondo Union 12
Oaks Christian 13, Oxnard Pacifica 7
Ontario Christian 12, Newport Beach Pacifica Christian 7
Orange Lutheran 24, Downey 19
Oxnard 47, Highland 20
Ramona 34, San Jacinto Valley Academy 0
Rancho Verde 32, Perris 0
Redlands East Valley 34, Eastvale Roosevelt 0
Rialto 31, Jurupa Hills 0
Rim of the World 35, Bloomington 18
Sage Hill 26, Corona 2
San Bernardino 64, Rubidoux 0
San Clemente 27, Northwood 6
Santa Barbara 33, Rio Mesa 7
Santa Fe 15, San Gabriel 0
Santa Margarita 13, Aliso Niguel 7
Santa Paula 52, Del Sol 0
Sierra Canyon 53, Alemany 0
South Torrance 47, West Torrance 0
St. Lucy's 21, Chaffey 6
Sunny Hills 40, Moreno Valley 20
Temecula Prep 26, Xavier Prep 0
Temescal Canyon 40, Tahquitz 6
Troy 14, Los Osos 13
Upland 13, Cajon 12
Western Christian 25, La Serna 18
Whittier 19, Alhambra 0
Intersectional
Mira Costa 38, San Pedro 6
MONDAY'S RESULTS
City Section
Foshay 39, Bernstein 6
Foshay 45, Hawkins 6
Fremont 38, Diego Rivera 0
Hawkins 46, Bernstein 6
Sotomayor 18, Huntington Park 6
South East 13, Elizabeth 6

#hills #santa #section

It's staying in the family at Santa Margarita (CA).
Junior Fletch Palmer, son of Santa Margarita head coach and longtime NFL quarterback, was named the starting quarterback for the Eagles' season opener on Friday night, Aug. 21, against Jones (FL).
More: High school football scores for tonight's Super 25 teams
Fletch took snaps in three games last season, but attempted only seven passes. He completed five of those for 74 yards. The top spot went to him over Villa Park (CA) senior transfer Matt Smith and Coronado (CA) junior transfer West Stansbury.
Carson Palmer himself is new to the program — this will only be his second season at head coach — but he's already made quite his mark on the Eagles. In his first season with the program, Carson, who led Santa Margarita to back-to-back CIF ******* les as a player in the 90s, guided the Eagles to the CIF-SS Division 1 championship.

#fletch #palmer #carson #junior

Rancho Santa Margarita (Calif.) Santa Margarita junior athlete Jaion Smith is a talented two-way player and has flashed for us the last two weeks at local 7v7 events.
Smith is a talented running back who has played in 26 games his first two years of high school ball. He was the teams featured back on last season’s CIF and State Championship team, rushing for 896 yards and eight touchdowns.
At the Battle of the Beach and South County Classic 7v7 tournaments the last two weekends, Smith worked out at linebacker and looked very good. He’s a plus athlete who moves really well and covers a lot of ground. He makes plays on the football, is natural in coverage and plays a physical game as well.
On the recruiting front, Smith has a family connection to USC and the Trojans are in a good spot in his recruitment.
“Jaylin Smith is my cousin so USC is definitely standing out for me,” Smith said. “He’s someone I always looked up to so when I got that offer from USC, it was like a dream come true.

#athlete #talented

Matthew and Camila McConaughey's tequila brand partnered with Tipsy Scoop for limited-edition margarita-inspired ice cream flavors
The Pantalones Peaches & Cream Margarita Ice Cream is available nationwide while a Dallas-exclusive sorbet debuts later this summer
The McConaugheys' tequila brand has become a family affair, with Matthew's mom starring in a recent Mother's Day campaign
Matthew and Camila McConaughey are celebrating National Tequila Day with ice cream!
The couple's tequila brand Pantalones Organic Tequila is partnering with Tipsy Scoop for two new flavors that pack all the punch of a margarita into a dessert that's perfect for summer. On Wednesday, July 22, the limited-edition Pantalones Peaches & Cream Margarita Ice Cream, which features peach ice cream infused with Pantalones Organic Reposado Tequila with a hint of lime, will be available at all Tipsy Scoop Barlours through August. Guests can order a scoop for $8.50 or grab a whole pint for $16.

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Dan Ives logs into the Zoom call in a loud, tropical shirt, the word "Margaritaville" splashed across the chest. He has spent the better part of 25 years as one of Wall Street's most recognizable tech bulls — a go-to voice on everything from Apple to Nvidia, a prolific note-writer who repeated the phrase "fourth industrial revolution" and has been telling investors, through every dip and correction, that they're still in the early innings. He has made a lot of people a lot of money by being consistently, loudly optimistic about technology stocks.
Now he is doing what he spent a decade and a half telling everyone else to do.
"Look, I'm an example of what I've preached over the years that AI will ultimately create more jobs than what it takes away," he told me in an interview, several weeks after leaving Wedbush Securities to launch Yorkville Ives, what he calls a "modern merchant bank" with Yorkville Securities. "If it wasn't for the AI revolution and it wasn't for this period … I couldn't do something like this."
That's the short version of what happened. The longer version, Ives told Fortune, is that after 25 years covering other people's companies, he realized he had never actually built one himself — and he wanted to. "As an ***** yst I always talk about companies, whether good or bad, what they've done. But I've never built anything," he said. He has helped institutional investors make money and CEOs shape narratives, he added, but he felt the itch. "I wanted to get off the treadmill and actually build something myself."
The first question, though, is just what he is building, actually. Ives said he traces the merchant bank concept back to Thomas Weisel and the early Jefferies era of the 1990s — outfits that didn't just publish research but put their own capital into transactions. "A lot of banks … they won't put their own money [in], they don't have the capital," he said. "That to me is really the key in terms of the difference with a merchant bank versus a typical investment bank."

Anne Schedeen, known for her role on the '80s sitcom ALF, has died.
On Sunday, a representative for the actress announced via Facebook that she had "passed peacefully". Schedeen was 77.
A cause of death was not disclosed.
"She leaves behind an extraordinary legacy of creative energy, whip smart humor, delight in her family, adoration for little dogs, burning hatred for (U.S. President Donald) Trump, passion for second-hand thrifting, and love for a good story. We are bereft without her. We loved her so so much, as did all who met her," they wrote.
"She was a force. And it is unimaginable to think about life without her in it. But as she said, 'I'm always with you.' And she's right. The memories, artwork, belly laughter, handmade jewelry, oil paintings, sculptures, costumes, and all-around joie de vivre live on."
To conclude, the family asked that fans "raise a margarita in her honor".
Schedeen launched her career in 1974, going on to land roles in shows such as Three's Company, Paper Dolls, and Cheers.

Sofía Vergara is raising awareness about high blood pressure and its complications through the Detect the SOS campaign with Boehringer Ingelheim
The Vergara family has a long history of hypertension — including Sofia's mother, Margarita — so helping others stay informed is very important to her, Sofia tells PEOPLE
The campaign highlights uACR testing as an option for patients to learn more about their personal condition and stay in the know about their own health
Sofía Vergara is encouraging others to stay in the know with their own health — just as she and her mother have.
The actress and model, 53, opened up to PEOPLE about her family's experience with high blood pressure and how she's helping her mother take control of her own health. As part of her partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim's Detect the SOS campaign, Vergara is advocating for patients with hypertension — which is ***** ociated with several serious complications — by encouraging them to stay knowledgeable about their own health.