COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) — It’s a busy time of year for the winter sports season with the CIF-SS playoffs underway. Boys basketball was featured on Wednesday with many local teams in the first round. DEL champion Palm Springs defeated Pioneer 67-46 in their Division 4 opener. The Indians will be in Los Angeles on
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) — Palm Springs girls water polo defeated Indio 15-10 on Tuesday in the second round of the CIF-SS playoffs. The Lady Indians are the lone local girls water polo program still alive in the CIF-SS playoffs. Palm Springs travels to Orange County to take on Laguna Hills on Friday in the
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – Palm Desert’s girls water polo star Nadia Frutkin is this week’s student-athlete of the week. “Nadia has been just a really key component for our team this year,” Elise Stein, the Aztec’s assistant coach said. “She’s one of our captains. She is a very selfless player.” Frutkin has played water
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (KESQ) – The BNP Paribas Open announced the lineup of men’s and women’s players set to compete in mixed doubles at the 2026 Eisenhower Cup, a one-night Tie Break Tens event played under the lights of Stadium 2 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. The following duos are scheduled to compete in
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) — Millions of people watched Super Bowl 60 between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots, with many having a rooting interest in one of the teams. Here locally, there’s a company that wasn’t cheering for either team, but rather the grass. West Coast Turf just completed their 11th #SuperBowl Really
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (KESQ) – The Seattle Seahawks are officially the Super Bowl LX Champions after defeating the New England Patriots 29-13. Seahawks fans turned the Rancho Mirage Agua Caliente Casino 360 Sports bar into a sea of green and blue for the game. The first half of the game was pretty quiet as the Seahawks
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) – The Coachella Valley Firebirds are living up to their name at the end of their road trip, as they are on fire against the Henderson Silver Knights, taking another win at 4-3. The Firebirds and Silver Knights had a back-and-forth matchup Friday night and Saturday was no different. The Firebirds set
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) – It’s time for winter sports playoffs for Coachella Valley high schools. The California Interscholastic Association has just released the Southern Section playoff rankings and pairings for basketball and soccer. For the full list of all schools, pairings and rankings click HERE. Here are the local teams in pairings: Boys Basketball
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) – The Coachella Valley Firebirds are back in the win column once again, looking to restart their streak, with a 4-3 win over the Henderson Silver Knights on Friday. The teams went back and forth all night, tying the game and reclaiming the lead. They remained fairly evenly matched, especially in
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) — There are plenty of Seahawks’ fans in the desert, but finding Patriots’ fans is a different story. Unless it’s your neighbor, a 91-year-old man from Massachusetts. “Arthur Fargnoli from New England. I’m a Patriots fan since 1985,” said Arthur Fargnoli. Arthur Fargnoli is from Haverhill, Massachusetts. He’s spent his winters here in the Coachella Valley
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (KESQ) — Super Bowl LX between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots is just days away. And despite neither team being local, there are still a lot fans of both teams who call the Coachella Valley home, many of whom have Washington roots, ready to root on the Seahawks in the big game.
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) — The Coachella Valley is usually dubbed as “Firebirds Territory,” but the team is currently in Super Bowl territory. Coachella Valley continued their road trip Wednesday with a game against the Barracuda in San Jose, not far from the site of the Super Bowl, set for Sunday, Feb. 8 in Santa
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DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) — Desert Hot Springs boys basketball defeated Desert Mirage 72-34 on Wednesday night. With the victory, the Golden Eagles secured the outright Sun Valley League championship with an 8-1 record. Desert Hot Springs boys basketball goes back-to-back as Sun Valley League champions. @kendallkesq was at the game tonight to capture
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (KESQ) – The BNP Paribas Open returns to the Indian Wells Tennis Garden next month. Tournament officials released the 2026 player entry lists on Tuesday, featuring top men’s and women’s players competing for a coveted title at the first combined ATP Masters/WTA 1000 event of the season. World No. 1s Aryna Sabalenka
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – Xavier Prep’s girls basketball small forward Grace Thomsen is this week’s student athlete of the week. She’s on our Mount Rushmore,” head coach Thaddis Bosley said. “She’s on that list of some of the greatest players we’ve ever had.” In her four year on varsity at Xavier Prep, Bosley says
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) – The Coachella Valley Firebirds completed a 5-1 win over the Ontario Reign on the road on Sunday. The Firebirds were looking for redemption after a 3-2 overtime loss to the Reign Jan. 23. At that time, the Reign were ranked first in the Pacific Division and the Firebirds were ranked
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) – The Coachella Valley Firebirds lost to the San Diego Gulls 4-3 on Friday night in the final game of their five-game homestand. With the loss, Coachella Valley has now dropped three straight games. The Firebirds were the first on the board for the night with a goal by Carson Rehkopf
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) — Shadow Hills girls basketball continues to be the standard on the court here in the Coachella Valley. The Lady Knights are league champions for the fifth straight season, which includes a 30-0 record in league play over the last three years. In fact, their last league loss was in January of
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) – Cub Swanson, a 42-year-old UFC fighter from the Coachella Valley, is returning to the octagon after more than a year. In 2024, Sport’s Director Blake Arthur spoke with Swanson about his knockout win over Billy Quarantillo, with questions raised over his possible retirement after the fight. The Dec. 2024 knockout was
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) – The Coachella Valley Firebirds lost in a close game to the Colorado Eagles 2-1, in a matchup head coach Derek Laxdal believes they could’ve easily won. “It was a 2-1 game and could have been 2-1 for us, 2-1 for them, but I really like the way our guys battled,
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