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Baseball is fun. Sports Director Blake Arthur decided it was only right to have some fun on the field with Rancho Mirage head baseball coach David Shaw despite the baseball season being postponed due to the coronavirus. Skipper Shaw showed Blake his fungo skills, sign giving technique, pre-game speech, and the importance of sunflower seeds
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“We’re Riot from Desert Elite Mavericks!” The team cheered. After coming up just short the past couple of years, this group of 13 girls and one boy earned a bid to the D2 Summit in its first competition of the 2019-2020 season. “Pretty much the Olympics of cheerleading,” said Jermaine Wright, Riot’s coach. “That’s like
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The Los Angeles Rams unveiled a new logo Monday, saying “a new chapter begins.” Here’s a look at the new and old logo featuring the ram head, for reference. The team explained the color choices to fans, saying “Rams Royal” blue is named after “the legacy that the color Royal has with the organization and
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The 2020 ANA Inspiration, typically held in April at Rancho Mirage, has been rescheduled for September 10-13. Typically the first of the LPGA’s five majors, the ANA Inspiration was originally scheduled for April 2-5 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage. The tournament was postponed on March 12 following a mandate issued by Riverside
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The Desert Blaze hockey club consists of young hockey players from all over the family. They practice and play out of Cathedral City but are unable to do what they love because of the coronavirus. The 10-U team, specifically, is coming off a strong season in which they won a prestigious Las Vegas tournament.
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Track and field jumper, CIF Champion basketball player, 3.6 student, and possibly the most popular kid at Shadow Hills High School. That’s right, I’m talking about Deonta Strange. “I like talking to people, talking to everybody. I like getting to know people,” Strange said. “He’s a very funny guy, he’s a very funny guy. He’s
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Amy Olson is one of the many LPGA players who will miss out on this year’s ANA Inspiration, the first major of the golf season. The LPGA Tour, along with many other professional sports leagues are taking a break right now due to the coronavirus. The global pandemic has put an unprecedented pause on sports.
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With school and sports canceled, Jelly Hernandez, a member of the Shadow Hills track and field team, came up with a creative at-home workout. She incorporated her stock of toilet paper into her core workout. Check it out!
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Despite the suspension of organized sports across the country, athletes here in the Coachella Valley are still training to perfect their craft. Local athletes who are still out there putting in work on your own. Tweet me your training videos to be featured on @KESQ !!!— Taylor Begley (@taylormbegley) March 14, 2020 Tweet videos to
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The coronavirus has suspended all local high school sports indefinitely but at least through the end of Spring Break. First interview with local high school program on the spring sports season being suspended due to coronavirus.As you would imagine, it's upsetting, mostly for the kids.@TaylorKESQ @KESQ @Jesus_G_Reyes @AthleticsSHHS @RDeTamble pic.twitter.com/MkQwcsRqa5— Blake Arthur (@BlakeArthur24) March 14,
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The California Community College Athletics Association (CCCAA) Board of Directors has voted to postpone spring sports indefinitely due to coronavirus concerns. The suspension includes practices, competitions and nontraditional seasons. College of the Desert, along with all community college athletics programs in the state, is governed by the CCCAA. The CCCAA sent an email to its
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The coronavirus continues to cause cancellations in the sports world. Here locally, prep sports have been paused for all three school districts. The three local school districts announced they have suspended all events, athletic activities, and field trips, as well as limiting public access to school grounds through the end of Spring Break due to
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The first major of the golf season has officially been postponed due to the coronavirus. HERE is the statement from the LPGA in regards to this tournament and others. The LPGA is planning to reschedule these events at later dates in the 2020 season. The ANA Inspiration was scheduled for April 2-5 at Mission Hills
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NEW YORK (AP) – NBA suspending season after Wednesday night’s games until further notice because of the coronavirus concerns. This comes after Utah Jazz star Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus. Tonight’s Jazz-Thunder game was stopped just before tip-off. According to NBA reporter Tony Jones, teams and locker rooms are currently quarantined. Fans were allowed
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The 2020 BNP Paribas Open has been cancelled. Full statement regarding cancellation: Click Here. The annual tennis event brings people from all over the world to the valley. Tournament organizers tweeted out the cancellation first, reading in part: “The 2020 BNP Paribas open will not take place at this time due to concerns surrounding the
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The Coachella FC youth girls soccer team won the Cal South State Cup earlier this month, overcoming two, two-goal deficits in the championship game. Coachella FC won eight-straight games to finish, outscoring opponents 33-7. This group of 12- and 13-year-olds has been playing together for the past two years. In their first season together, they
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The 2019 Women’s Singles Champion and World No. 4, Bianca Andreescu will not defend her title at Indian Wells. The 19-year-old Canadian cites a lingering knee injury as the reason for her withdrawal. The news announced on Saturday in a post on the tournament’s Twitter page. "I would like to thank you all for yourcontinued
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Activities at the BNP Paribas Open kicked off on Saturday with the annual Kids Day event. It was a day filled with activities for the whole family, including tennis drills, music, rock climbing, cartoon character art demos, face painting, yoga and more. Event attendees also had access to watch the Oracle Challenge matches going on,
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif., March 7, 2020 – Eleven Americans were among those awarded main draw wild cards into the 2020 BNP Paribas Open, to be held March 9-22 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. World No. 55 and 2020 Australian Open quarterfinalist Tennys Sandgren headlines the main draw wild card recipients on the men’s side, and is joined by fellow
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Current world no. 2 Simona Halep will not play in the 2020 BNP Paribas Open. Halep, who won the tournament in 2015, is out due to a foot injury she got before the WTA Dubai Duty-Free Tennis Championships. Despite the injury, Halep was still able to win the tournament “I’m incredibly disappointed to have to
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