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TUESDAY’S RESULTS
SOUTHERN SECTION
Agoura 50, Simi Valley 7
Arroyo Valley 7, Vista del Lago 0
Azusa 19, Ontario 12
Beaumont 56, Rancho Mirage 0
Bonita 32, Chaffey 0
California Military Institute 7, Arlington 6
Claremont 38, Victor Valley 6
Compton 26, Nogales 0
Esperanza 42, Anaheim 7
Fountain Valley 15, Westminster La Quinta 12
Garden Grove 27, Savanna 12
Knight 53, Vasquez 0
Loara 12, Laguna Beach 7
Moreno Valley 27, Riverside Poly 24
Norte Vista 12, Fontana 0
Oak Park 19, Saugus 6
Oxnard 59, Hueneme 6
Palos Verdes 6, Santa Monica 0
Rancho Cucamonga 9, Citrus Valley 7
Ramona 36, San Gorgonio 6
Redlands East Valley 34, Corona 0
Santa Paula 26, Buena 0
Temescal Canyon 16, Elsinore 6
South Hills 31, Burbank Burroughs 6
Upland 21, Alta Loma 7
Villa Park 20, Rosary Academy 0
Vista del Lago 19, Arroyo Valley 13
MONDAY’S RESULTS
SOUTHERN SECTION
Anaheim Canyon 40, La Habra 6
Beckman 25, Woodbridge 6
Bellflower 39, Cerritos 8
Bishop Amat 32, Los Osos 32
Bolsa Grande 19, Sadleback 14
Canyon Springs 6, Norte Vista 0
Chaminade 32, Windward 0
Claremont 47, Garey 7
Cypress 15, La Palma Kennedy 0
Esperanza 32, Rosary Academy 12
Estancia 6, Los Amigos 0
Fullerton 13, California 7
Gahr 19, Ayala 0
Glendora 32, Northview 0
Hacienda Heights Wilson 12, Don Lugo 6
Hemet 41, Lakeside 0
JSerra 32, Downey 7
Laguna Hills 8, Irvine 0
Lakewood Saint Joseph 32, Mater Dei 7
La Serna 28, La Mirada 0
Linfield Christian 46, Murrieta Mesa 12
Los Alamitos 22, Anaheim 2
Mission Viejo 12, Marina 6
Norwalk 18, Bell Gardens 6
Ontario 31, Pomona 0
Palm Desert 13, Palm Springs 9
Placentia 28, Long Beach Jordan 13
Rancho Cucamonga 19, Norco 0
Riverside King 29, Arlington 0
Riverside North 13, Vista del Lago 12
Riverside Poly 14, Valley View 12
San Dimas 13, Covina 0
San Gorgonio 32, Rialto 0
Santa Ana Foothill 12, Fountain Valley 6
Segerstrom 6, Capistrano Valley 0
Shadow Hills 33, La Quinta 0
Sierra Vista 40, Westridge 0
Sunny Hills 34, Long Beach Wilson 0
Temecula Prep 27, Temecula Valley 6
Temescal Canyon 15, Hillcrest 2
Keshia Knight Pulliam, who shared the screen with Malcolm-Jamal Warner on “The Cosby Show,” highlighted the Emmy-nominated actor’s musical talents as she broke her silence on his death.
Pulliam on Sunday shared an Instagram video of Warner playing the bass at Atlanta’s City Winery. She shared the video of Warner, best known for his portrayal of clean-cut Theodore Huxtable, a week after he drowned while swimming in the Caribbean off Costa Rica. He was 54.
“A week ago I lost my big brother but I gained an angel,” Pulliam captioned her video. She played Rudy Huxtable, the youngest of the TV family’s children.
“I love you… I miss you,” she added, before referencing the other Huxtable children. “We got our girls.”
“House of Payne” star Pulliam, 46, is the latest “Cosby Show” star to mourn Warner. As news of the actor-musician’s death spread last week, co-stars including Bill Cosby, Geoffrey Owens and Raven-Symoné paid tribute. Cosby told CBS News last week he and co-star Phylicia Rashad were “embracing each other over the phone” when they learned of Warner’s death.
“He was never afraid to go to his room and study. He knew his lines and that he was quite comfortable even with the growing pains of a being a teenager,” Cosby said of Warner.
Owens, who appeared as Warner’s on-screen brother-in-law, Elvin Tibideaux, said in a statement shared with Deadline that his co-star’s death had left him speechless. “Malcolm was a lovely man; a sweet and sensitive soul. I respected him for many reasons, including the fact that he genuinely loved the act of creation,” he said.
Warner, also a TV director and a Grammy-winning musician, was on vacation with his family at the time of his death. He was swimming when a current pulled him deeper into the ocean.
The Red Cross in Costa Rica confirmed to The Times last week that its first responders also tended to another man in the same drowning incident that claimed Warner’s life. The patient, whose identity was not disclosed, survived. First responders found Warner without vital signs, and he was taken to the morgue.
As news of his death spread last week, his Hollywood peers, including Morris Chestnut, Tracee Ellis Ross, Viola Davis and Niecy Nash also paid tribute on social media. Beyoncé honored the actor, briefly updating her website to include a tribute to the TV star.
Pulliam also thanked fans on Sunday for their support as she mourned. “Thank you for every text, call and all the love that you have sent my way,” she said in an Instagram story. “I’ve just needed a moment.”
City Winery in Atlanta, the venue from Pulliam’s video, will host an event in Warner’s honor on Wednesday. “This tribute is our communal offering to say: Thank you. For the way he gave, for the work he created, for the bridges he built between TV, poetry, music, and love,” says the event website. According to the site, all profits will go to Warner’s family. He is survived by his wife and daughter.
After captaining India to an Under-19 World Cup title in 2012 — with arguably the finest performance of his life — Unmukt Chand struggled to even watch his country play on TV.
After donning the royal blue and molten orange jersey as part of India A — the second rung of the national team ladder — Chand’s performance dipped and his name eventually disappeared from the game-day roster for his home state team in Delhi
After donning the royal blue and molten orange jersey as part of India’s A — or second-best — national team, Chand struggled and eventually fell off the game-day roster for his home state team in Delhi.
After years gunning for India’s main team, Chand found himself circling the fringes. His early stardom never quite translated into a stable senior career as opportunities dried up in a system overflowing with talent. By 2021, the dream was still alive, but the runway had faded and Chand decided to retire from all forms of Indian cricket.
“To let go of that feeling was something which took me time, and obviously I had to do my own catharsis. I had self-identity doubts,” Chand said.
Unmukt Chand revived his cricket career when he moved to the United States and eventually joined Major League Cricket’s L.A. Knight Riders.
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With the courage to start over, he unloaded his bags on American soil, where the pitch was still being laid. What the U.S. lacked in tradition, it made up for in potential, Chand said — seeing a future in a place that wasn’t bound by his past.
“We’ve all grown up watching American sports and the way they do sports activities, and everything around it is something very exciting,” Chand said, “and something very different from a cricketing point of view.”
Chand and his wife, Simran Khosla, settled on relocating to Dallas. It was a leap made solely for cricket — one that left Khosla without work, stability or anything resembling certainty.
In 2019, American Cricket Enterprises, the strategic partner of USA Cricket, pledged a $1-billion investment to jumpstart a professional T20 league in the country. T20 is a condensed, fast-paced format of the game.
That vision materialized in 2023 with the debut of Major League Cricket, featuring six privately owned franchises each backed by global investors, including some of cricket’s most iconic brands. ESPNcricinfo reported that the league will expand to eight teams in 2027, with sights set on 10 by 2031.
The goal? Hook American to a flashier style of cricket that emphasizes quick scoring, frequent momentum swings and just enough chaos to attract fans who couldn’t tell a wicket from a walk-off.
“MLC is exciting — that’s why it is attracting so many players — top players from around the world,” Chand said. “The way they have done this competition is also very nice, the way teams are being made, the way the domestic and international representation is there.”
While MLC’s launch was delayed to 2022 due to COVID-19, ACE had already been courting Chand as the kind of marquee talent who could lend legitimacy and hype to the U.S.’s cricketing scene.
L.A. Knight Riders batsman Unmukt Chand collects the ball during a Major League Cricket match against the Mumbai Indians New York on July 3 at Central Broward Regional Park in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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He made his American debut in August 2021 with the Silicon Valley Strikers in Minor League Cricket, a developmental league aimed at growing the sport across the U.S.
“We were his biggest fans,” said Natwar Agarwal, owner of the Strikers. “We always heard about him, and it was like a dream come true — Unmukt Chand is here, and there’s a possibility that he can play for our team.”
You likely wouldn’t have guessed that he’d just crossed nearly 8,000 miles or buried a dream that shaped his boyhood. Chand paced the league in runs per game, piling up 612 runs during 16 innings as he piloted his team to the inaugural Minor League Cricket title.
“Players like him, … showed that a good quality of cricket can happen in the U.S.,” Agarwal said. “Still today, I get calls from players in India, Pakistan — they want to explore the opportunity where they can come here and play.”
Chand’s championship summer opened doors around the world — including Australia and Bangladesh — but none felt quite like home until 2023, when he signed with Major League Cricket’s Los Angeles Knight Riders, the American arm of one of cricket’s most storied franchises.
The organization, owned by Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan, brought a built-in international fan base and marketing muscle rarely seen in American cricket.
For Chand, it was the break he’d been denied back home: a team that backed him, and a league that let him prove he still belonged at the top.
“Playing for a franchise like Knight Riders is something very special, and being in L.A. makes it big,” Chand said. “L.A. holds a very special place — it’s been a sporting capital with obviously the Lakers, and us now being a part of the same sporting ecosystem.”
He joined the Knight Riders as a top-order batsman in a locker room stocked with international firepower and helmed by Dwayne Bravo, a West Indies legend in the T20 format.
Chand made good on it.
Unmukt Chand, of the L.A. Knight Riders, is working to earn a spot on the U.S. national cricket team.
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“He’s been doing really well for us over the years — he was a really great addition to our Knight Riders team,” said Ali Khan, Chand’s teammate and a member of the U.S. national team. “Always helpful and engaged in the field, and off the field as well, he’s always there and helping the team.”
The Knight Riders languished at the bottom of the table in 2025, where they had the past two seasons. But Chand’s 33.6 run average this year offered a rare glint in an otherwise dull stretch.
He produced an unbeaten 86 runs off 58 balls to lift his team to one of its two victories this season, prompting Bravo to publicly endorse his star batsman for the U.S. national team.
“This guy deserves to be involved in USA cricket team! Cricket is bigger than politics, let’s do right for these players. Well done!” Bravo wrote on an Instagram story.
And yet, for Chand, a U.S. call-up remains elusive.
He was left out of the 2024 T20 World Cup roster and passed over for multiple tours abroad. While Chand’s domestic performances have been solid, selectors have said he has yet to shift the selection calculus in a system that might prioritize younger prospects.
“With the USA World Cup not happening for him, it was a little disappointing for us. Not little — very, because this is what we moved here for,” Khosla said. “But he was at it even when things were not working for him — focusing on the process, going back to the basics, working hard, practicing more.”
Though the lack of selection still stings, it’s not unfamiliar for Chand.
Adversity gave him a mindset he still leans on. The U.S. snubs haven’t shaken him — his focus, he says, remains to “perform wherever I can, make the best use of my opportunities and hopefully those things will happen sooner than later.”
Khosla, who met Chand during what she called his “most struggling phase,” said his drive never faded — even when things felt bleak.
What kept him going? His love for the game.
“Cricket is his religion,” Khosla said. “Cricket is something I would call his first wife. … If you take out his blood, his blood would be cricket.”
Chand, 32, speaks ambitiously about the future of American cricket — and his desire to be at the center of its development. The signs are there, he said: the growth of Major League Cricket, the influx of youth academies, the construction of stadiums and the promise of the sport being featured during the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
He came to the U.S. chasing a reimagined version of a childhood dream. He didn’t need to rediscover the game — just needed a new place to keep feeding the fire. His journey is chronicled in a documentary that was recently selected for screening by the Dallas International Film Festival.
“U.S. is my new home, and I’m going to be here only,” Chand said. “Playing for USA, playing MLC, playing other franchises around the world is the way to go forward. And cricket has definitely been on the rise. … I look forward to the next few years in USA. It’s going to be exciting.”
Royal correspondent
PA MediaRugby league legend Billy Boston has received a knighthood at Buckingham Palace, making him the sport’s first knight in its 130-year history.
Sir Billy, 90, was awarded his knighthood early – before the King’s birthday honours list was officially announced – because of concerns over his health.
It follows growing frustration over the lack of rugby league knighthoods or damehoods, with a group of cross-party MPs suggesting it was linked to snobbery.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said it was a “historic wrong” that no rugby league player had received a knighthood until now.
PA Media“It is a historic wrong that a sport which is the backbone of so many communities has waited so long to receive this honour,” Sir Keir said.
“Boston is a legend of the game who overcame prejudice to represent Great Britain and opened the door to a more diverse game.”
Sir Billy’s wife, Lady Joan, said his family “are so proud of him” and “excited that everything he’s done for the sport and for our community is being recognised”.
The Cardiff-born player was one of the greatest stars of rugby league and a trailblazer for black sports stars when he played for Wigan and Great Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.
Sir Billy, who has been living with dementia, was accompanied at the Palace by his family and representatives of his former club.
Wigan Warriors’ chairman Chris Brookes said: “I am absolutely delighted and so happy that Billy – and rugby league – has finally received the ultimate recognition his stellar career deserves.”
Sir Billy is one of the sport’s legends, after winning three Challenge Cups and scoring 24 tries in 31 appearances for Great Britain. He has also been praised for helping to open doors for black players in the sport.
Brookes said Sir Billy had scored 478 tries in 487 matches for the team – but had remained the “most modest of men” even though he was the “most revered player of our wonderful sport”.
The letter announcing the knighthood was given to Sir Billy by Labour MP Josh Simons, who said the rugby league was finally “getting the recognition it deserves”.
The sport’s governing body, the Rugby Football League, had told the BBC last month that its players had been “poorly treated” by the honours system.
The Speaker of the House of Commons , Sir Lindsay Hoyle, joined protests over the lack of knighthoods for rugby players, saying it “cannot be right” when other sports, including rugby union, have had such honours “quite regularly”.
A cross-party group of MPs had claimed the lack of knighthoods a “scandal” linked to snobbery and class prejudice.
David Baines, chair of the all-party Parliamentary rugby league group, had said he suspected it was because “they come from working class backgrounds, didn’t go to the right schools, and didn’t mix in the right social circles”.
A BBC analysis earlier this year revealed that a disproportionately low number of top honours, such as knighthoods and damehoods, were going to people from the north of England and working class backgrounds – which overlaps with the rugby league heartlands.
It emerged last week that ex-footballer David Beckham is also set to receive a knighthood.
Near the end of an evening ruled by queens, a king was keeping Chaka Khan waiting.
“Stevie Wonder’s in the house tonight,” Khan said late Sunday as she stood in the spotlight at Inglewood’s Kia Forum. “I don’t know where he is.” The veteran soul-music star wandered over to the edge of the stage, the black fringe of her bedazzled cape swaying with every step, and peered out into the crowd. “Steve, you over there?”
Khan was in the middle of her set to close Sunday’s installment of a traveling R&B revue called “The Queens” that launched last week in Las Vegas and has her on the road through the fall with three fellow lifers in Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and Stephanie Mills. (One longs to have been in the room when they decided who plays last.) She’d come out singing “I Feel for You” — saucy, casual, effortlessly funky — then glided through “Do You Love What You Feel” and “What Cha’ Gonna Do for Me.” Now her would-be special guest was nowhere to be found.
Chaka Khan performs with Stevie Wonder.
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“Stevie Wonder!” she said again, attempting to summon him to the stage. “We go back a long, long way. I remember once we did a tour, he and I — must have been back in the ’80s, the ’70s or something. It was that long ago. We were on tour for dang near two years. Two friggin’ frack years.” Khan went on for a minute about a vexing old record deal then seemed wisely to think better of that. “Call him,” she instructed the crowd, which started up a “Stevie” chant.
“What?” boomed a voice at last over the sound system. It was Wonder, shuffling out from the wings wearing his signature shades and beret to join his old friend for — well, for what? Khan had set up Wonder’s cameo by saying they should do “I Feel for You” again since Wonder played harmonica on the original record in 1984. But Wonder didn’t appear to have gotten that note: After clasping hands with Khan, he started telling the story of writing “Tell Me Something Good” a decade earlier for her group Rufus, which led Khan to cue her backing band on that number instead.
And what a number it was — that slinky up-and-down riff still a marvel of rhythmic ingenuity that inspired Khan and Wonder to go off in a volley of ad libs like the seasoned pros they are.
Patti Labelle performs.
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Signs of life such as that one are precisely the reason to go to a concert like “The Queens,” in which the vast experience of the performers — Mills was the youngest at 68, LaBelle the oldest at 80 — serves not as a safeguard against the unexpected but as a guarantee that whatever might happen is fully roll-with-able.
Mills got up there Sunday and discovered an unwelcome climate situation — “I wish they would cut that air off,” she said, “it’s blowing so cold on me” — but went ahead and sang the bejesus out of “Home,” from “The Wiz.” LaBelle put out a call for willing men from the audience — “Black, white, straight, gay,” she made clear — then presided over an impromptu talent show as each guy did a bit of “Lady Marmalade” for her. And then there was Knight’s handler, who seemed to show up a few beats early to guide her offstage after “Midnight Train to Georgia.” No biggie: He could just stand there holding her arm gently for a minute while she traded “I’ve got to go’s” with her background singers.
Gladys Knight performs.
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Another reason to go to “The Queens,” especially on Mother’s Day, was to behold the finery displayed onstage (and in the crowd). Knight wore a crisp red pantsuit with glittering figure-eight earrings, Mills an off-the-shoulder mermaid gown. LaBelle showed off two outfits, emerging in a silky blue suit before changing into a long tunic-style dress. During “On My Own,” she kicked off her heels, sending them hurtling across the stage; later, she spritzed herself from a bottle of fragrance then spritzed the front row for good measure.
As a three-hour program — Knight opened at 7 p.m. on the dot — Sunday’s show moved quickly, with a rotating stage that whirred to life after each woman’s set. And of course nobody stuck around long enough to offer up anything but hits. The musical pleasures were the ripples of detail in all those familiar tunes: a little ha-ha-ha Knight used to punctuate “That’s What Friends Are For”; LaBelle’s frisky vocal runs in “When You Talk About Love,” which she sang as a stagehand came out to help put her in-ear monitor back in; the way Khan toyed with her phrasing in “Through the Fire,” slowing down when you thought she’d speed up and vice versa. (Nobody wants to start a fight here, but Khan was undoubtedly the night’s best singer.)
Stephanie Mills performs.
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After bringing the Mother’s Day audience to its feet with “I’m Every Woman” — somewhere out there was Khan’s own 91-year-old mom, she said — she started to make for the exit when her band revved up the throbbing synth lick from “Ain’t Nobody.”
“Oh, one more?” she said to no one in particular. “S—. One more!”