Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS — The Super Bowl will return to Las Vegas in 2029 for the second time after NFL owners voted Monday to award the nation’s gambling and entertainment capital the big game.

Las Vegas getting the Super Bowl back seemed only like a matter of time after Kansas City defeated San Francisco 25-22 in overtime at Allegiant Stadium in February 2024.

Commissioner Roger Goodell all but gave the return his blessing after the first Super Bowl in a city the league long shunned because of concerns about legalized sports betting.

“We’re excited to bring the Super Bowl back to Las Vegas and provide our fans another incredible experience in one of America’s greatest sport and entertainment destinations,” Goodell said in a statement.

“Super Bowl LVIII demonstrated the scale, energy and hospitality the city brings to global events, and we look forward to working alongside the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, the Raiders and the community to deliver an even greater experience this time around.”

The game will be broadcast by Fox.

Next year’s Super Bowl will be played at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. Santa Clara was the site of this year’s game in which Seattle beat New England 29-13.

Atlanta will host the 2028 game.

ATLANTA — Regardless of politics or destination, American air travelers are unified by one desire: It’s time to pay Transportation Security Administration employees.

“Everybody got bills they have to pay, and it’s horrible,” said Patrice Clark, whose trip to Las Vegas began Saturday with a nearly four-hour wait in a security line at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. “Times are hard for everybody at this point. Working and not getting paid and gas prices are extremely high — like everybody needs their money. They need to pay them.”

TSA officers haven’t gotten a paycheck since the Department of Homeland Security partly shut down on Feb. 14. Democrats balked at funding the agency, demanding changes to immigration enforcement by federal agents after the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.

Some travelers arrive 4 hours early

Christian Childress is a private flight attendant, so when he is working, he doesn’t wait in TSA lines. But he frequently goes through a checkpoint when flying commercial to get to his job.

Childress, who lives in Redwood City in Northern California, said shutdown effects have been “hit or miss” thus far. He came to the Atlanta airport nearly three hours before his 1:30 p.m. Saturday flight to Nashville for a leisure trip. Some passengers have been arriving even earlier in Atlanta — the world’s busiest airport — worried about missing flights.

“Issue No. 1 should be paying the people who need to get paid and keeping our air travel system secure,” Childress said. “Then they can debate whatever they want to debate about Homeland Security.”

Democrats have tried to advance legislation to fund TSA separately, but Republicans have refused, saying funding for the entire Department of Homeland Security must be approved. So the shutdown continues.

Some passengers said it is time for Democrats to relent.

“I don’t want to go between the Democrats and the Republicans, but I think the Democrats are holding everything up because they can’t get their way,” said Tyrone Williams, a retiree from the Atlanta suburb of Ellenwood. He was queued up for screening before his flight to Philadelphia on Saturday.

Atlanta’s checkpoint wait time was as high as 90 minutes Saturday morning before melting away to nothing in the afternoon on what is typically one of the slowest days of the week for air travel. Staffing shortages have forced some airports to close checkpoints at times, with wait times swinging dramatically.

ICE at airports

Concerns about long airport lines are increasingly capturing attention.

President Trump has announced plans to order Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to take a role in airport security starting Monday, which he says will continue until Democrats agree to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

He said ICE agents would bring the administration’s immigration crackdown into the nation’s airports, arresting “all Illegal Immigrants” with a focus on those from Somalia.

“I look forward to moving ICE in on Monday, and have already told them to, “GET READY.” NO MORE WAITING, NO MORE GAMES!” Trump wrote.

Funding for the whole department failed to advance in the Senate on Friday after Democrats declined to support a bill. On Saturday, in a rare weekend session, the GOP-led Senate rejected the Democrats’ motion to take up legislation to fund TSA.

Travelers ‘grateful’ for unpaid TSA workers

The vast majority of employees at TSA are considered essential, and roughly 50,000 continue to work without pay during the funding lapse. Nationwide on Thursday, about 10% of TSA officers missed work, the department reported. Absentee rates were two or three times higher in places.

Merissa Thomas arrived in Las Vegas on Saturday after a quick trip through a checkpoint at Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C.

“I’m so grateful for people who are willing to sacrifice a lot to make sure we’re safe,” Thomas said.

Union leaders and federal officials say TSA officers are under financial pressure. Airport screeners have spent nearly half of the last 172 days with paychecks delayed by politics — 43 days last fall during the longest government shutdown in history, four days earlier this year during a brief funding lapse, and now 37 days and counting during the current shutdown.

At least 376 officers have quit since this shutdown began, according to officials, exacerbating turnover at an agency that historically has had some of the U.S. government’s highest attrition and lowest employee morale.

“From now on I would drive wherever I have to go until they get this figured out,” said Clark, the delayed traveler. “It was horrible.”

Amy writes for the Associated Press. AP writers Collin Binkley in West Palm Beach, Fla., Ty O’Neil in Las Vegas and Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington contributed to this report.

Fake is the operative word. Tom Brady’s beef with Logan Paul, Paul’s beef with Rob Gronkowski and Brady’s beef with World Wrestling Entertainment all are as fake as plant-based meat.

It’s also so much fun.

That’s the consensus opinion of fans and participants alike to the promotional shenanigans ahead of this weekend’s Fanatics Flag Football Classic at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles and next month’s WWE WrestleMania 42 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

Brady used the word himself, calling wrestling “fake B.S.” Wednesday night at the Flag Football Classic draft at a Beverly Hills hotel. The comments came shortly after Brady went on Paul’s “Impaulsive” podcast and told the WWE star in no uncertain terms that he was not on the same athletic level as NFL players.

Paul took exception, pointing out that he played linebacker in high school. He is on the flag football roster of Team Wildcats alongside NFL quarterbacks and captains Joe Burrow and Jayden Daniels, so inquiring minds can evaluate Paul’s gridiron bona fides during the three-team flag fun televised at 1 p.m. PDT Sunday on Fox Sports.

In addition to Team Wildcats, the inaugural flag football event features a team led by Brady and Jalen Hurts called Founders and another consisting of the U.S. men’s national flag football roster.

In promoting the venture, Brady poked the enormously popular WWE organization, telling Paul, “You know, I love WWE. It’s very cute. But honestly, this is like real football. This is just real competition.

“I’m glad you’re going to be there and finally participate in a competition that matters.”

Brady upped the ante after Sports Illustrated playfully asked how many WWE wrestlers it would take to sack him.

“They wouldn’t even get near me,” he replied. “Plus, if I had a good offensive line, they’d punch those guys right in the throat and they’d probably be crying.”

All a deft segue to WrestleMania 42, which many followers suspect is positioning Brady to be some sort of scripted villain during the WWE’s annual five-day extravaganza. Last year WrestleMania 41 attracted more than 100,000 fans to Allegiant Stadium, generating roughly $65 million in ticket revenue and reaching a global audience with more than a billion social media views.

Adding the greatest quarterback of all time would only boost those numbers. Introducing a surprise antagonist has long been a key ingredient of the WWE recipe, and at this point Brady surfacing is all but expected.

The seven-time Super Bowl champion has morphed into a glue guy, whose employment as a Fox Sports NFL television analyst, part owner of the Las Vegas Raiders and key partner with Fanatics binds him with almost every major stakeholder in the Flag Football Classic and WrestleMania 42. Every stakeholder except the WWE.

That gives Brady license to take good-natured shots at wrestling for now and positions him to become a high-profile heel at WrestleMania 42.

It’s no coincidence that both events are in partnership with Fanatics, the outfit that has grown from designing and manufacturing licensed fan gear into a ubiquitous global digital sports platform and e-commerce company.

That leaves only the feigned feud between Paul and Gronkowski — Brady’s longtime pal and New England Patriots teammate. It started when Gronkowski labeled Paul a “flake” on a podcast a few days ago after Paul made a $1-million boxing challenge to NFL players and subsequently backed out of a fight with former running back Le’Veon Bell.

The tongue-in-cheek beef culminated in a verbal volley at the flag football draft with Gronkowski jawing at Paul while balancing a paper plate stacked with hors d’oeuvres and Paul shouting back over the head of 5-foot-5 comedian Kevin Hart, who somehow found himself in the role of peacemaker.

“No one can tackle me. So if Logan Paul wants a piece of me, I’m down to throw it down on the field and even throw my fist and just go at it, an all-out brawl on the flag football field,” Gronkowski said with an impish grin.

Crazy how Fanatics posted a video of the exchange so quickly. It had racked up 250,000 views as of Friday morning. Just Gronkowski and Paul following Brady’s lead, knowing their job descriptions include promotion as well as performance.

BASEBALL

CITY SECTION

Eagle Rock 11, Fairfax 4

El Camino Real 5, Narbonne 2

Fremont 8, Gardena 4

Huntington Park 9, Jefferson 4

LA Hamilton 4, Franklin 3

Maywood CES 15, King/Drew 3

North Hollywood 8, Chavez 4

Port of Los Angeles 2, Bravo 0

Reseda 12, Bert Corona 3

Triumph Charter 6, Fulton 5

VAAS 17, Valley Oaks CES 2

SOUTHERN SECTION

Bellflower 9, Mayfair 1

Brea Olinda 4, Cajon 1

Burbank Providence 16, Santa Monica Pacifica Christian 0

Citrus Valley 2, Rancho Cucamonga 1

Compton 11, Lennox Academy 3

Crossroads Christian 15, Sherman Indian 2

Desert 15, Immanuel Christian 0

Faith Baptist 17, Valley Torah 4

Garden Grove Santiago 6, Westminster La Quinta 5

Gladstone 10, Immanuel Christian 0

Grace 2, Oak Park 1

Great Oak 4, Etiwanda 3

Hillcrest 8, La Sierra 3

La Canada 11, Chino Hills 9

Los Altos 7, West Covina 0

Monrovia 4, Covina 3

NSLA 17, Packinghouse Christian Academy 12

Oak Hills 11, Don Lugo 4

Oakwood 11, YULA 0

Pasadena Poly 5, Sage Hill 3

Perris 3, San Jacinto 1

Rancho Christian 9, Arrowhead Christian 4

Rancho Verde 5, Nuview Bridge 4

Riverside King 8, Jurupa Hills 4

Rowland 7, Rosemead 0

Rubidoux 10, Temecula Prep 0

Santa Clarita Christian 10, PACS 8

Santa Maria St. Joseph 4, Oaks Christian 3

Santa Ynez 6, Channel Islands 2

St. Anthony 6, Cerritos 2

St. Pius X-St. Matthias Academy 14, Workman 4

Thousand Oaks 5, St. Bonaventure 1

Troy 7, Arroyo 3

Western Christian 8, Apple Valley 7

Whitney 12, Westminster 5

Windward 7, New Roads 6

Wiseburn-Da Vinci 4, El Rancho 2

INTERSECTIONAL

Canyon Country Canyon 21, Van Nuys 2

Elsinore 3, Carlsbad 1

LACES 6, Crossroads 1

Salesian 21, Locke 0

Taft 4, St. Bernard 3

WISH Academy 10, Shalhevet 4

SOFTBALL

CITY SECTION

Bell 12, Fremont 7

Eagle Rock 7, Garfield 5

Harbor Teacher 26, Santee 1

LA Roosevelt 10, Lincoln 0

North Hollywood 11, Rancho Dominguez 3

South East 18, Mendez 1

Sylmar 13, Arleta 9

USC-MAE 21, Diego Rivera 9

Verdugo Hills 10, Cleveland 8

West Adams 23, Hawkins 21

Wilmington Banning 14, Port of Los Angeles 3

SOUTHERN SECTION

AAE 23, NSLA 1

Anaheim 11, Ocean View 1

Arcadia 7, Chino 0

Arroyo 20, Edgewood 4

Baldwin Park 16, Bassett 1

Cajon 3, Ontario Christian 2

Cantwell-Sacred Heart 8, Nogales 6

Chaparral 17, San Jacinto 16

Colony 17, Patriot 12

Colton 10, Jurupa Hills 3

Corona 10, Redlands East Valley 0

Dos Pueblos 17, Santa Clara 4

Edison 6, Sunny Hills 4

Gahr 8, Cypress 5

Ganesha 14, Claremont 1

Garden Grove 16, Oxford Academy 0

Glendale d. Lynwood, forfeit

Heritage Christian 12, Burbank 9

Hesperia Christian 20, ACE 0

Hillcrest 6, Lakeside 3

Indio 4, Aquinas 2

Linfield Christian 7, Temecula Valley 2

Los Altos 5, Sonora 2

Los Amigos 19, Bolsa Grande 2

Mission Viejo 14, Northwood 2

Moorpark 8, Thousand Oaks 4

Newbury Park 6, Sierra Canyon 1

Oxnard Pacifica 11, Fillmore 0

Paraclete 4, Bishop Amat 2

Rancho Mirage 8, Banning 7

Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 12, Granada Hills Kennedy 2

South El Monte 16, Sierra Vista 10

Temecula Prep 18 Rubidoux 6

Temescal Canyon 3, Riverside Poly 2

Torrance 16, Maranatha 2

Western Christian 8, Kaiser 4

West Ranch 14, Royal 3

Workman 17, Rosemead 6

INTERSECTIONAL

Chatsworth 20, Golden Valley 1

LA Hamilton 11, Brentwood 6

Pasadena Marshall 9, Monroe 18

Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 12, Granada Hills Kenedy 2

Triumph Charter 31, Fulton 18

Valencia 3, El Camino Real 2

BASEBALL

CITY SECTION

Bell 11, Granada Hills Kennedy 0

Chavez 10, Sun Valley Magnet 3

San Pedro 15, Verdugo Hills 8

Sylmar 3, LA Roosevelt 2

SOUTHERN SECTION

Aliso Niguel 2, Citrus Valley 0

Aquinas 8, Oaks Christian 4

Baldwin Park 6, Edgewood 5

Barstow 7, Apple Valley 4

Bosco Tech 10, Mountain View 2

Canyon Country Canyon 2, Nordhoff 1

Carter 16, Norte Vista 2

Cerritos Valley Christian 15, Campbell Hall 7

Chadwick 4, Indian Springs 3

Colony 6, Oxford Academy 1

Compton 7, Whitney 6

Corona del Mar 4, Irvine University 3

Culver City 2, El Segundo 1

Dos Pueblos 9, Foothill Tech 7

El Dorado 13, Yorba Linda 2

Elsinore 6, Sage Creek 4

Fontana 15, Silverado 14

Ganesha 6, Woodbridge 3

Golden Valley 5, Eastside 1

Granite Hills 15, Pasadena Poly 1

Hemet 15, Lakeside 3

Hueneme 28, Santa Clara 3

Irvine 4, Costa Mesa 3

Jurupa Hills 12, Eisenhower 3

Lennox Academy 7, Hawthorne 1

Linfield Christian 2, Walnut 0

Loara 7, Flintridge Prep 6

Los Altos 13, Glendora 8

Los Osos 3, Great Oak 2

Maranatha Christian 3, Murrieta Mesa 1

Mary Star of the Sea 9, Estancia 6

Mira Costa 10, Wiseburn-Da Vinci 6

Mission Hills 3, Hart 1

Mission Viejo 7, Marina 3

Monrovia 15, Pasadena Marshall 3

North Torrance 10, Whittier Christian 3

Ocean View 10, Westminster La Quinta 6

Orange Vista 12, Arroyo Valley 2

Palm Desert 3, Cajon 0

Palm Springs 10, Pioneer 0

Quartz Hill 10, Adelanto 5

Redlands 3, Ramona 1

Royal 16, St. Margaret’s 1

San Jacinto 11, Big Bear 10

Santa Ana 4, Garden Grove Santiago 1

Santa Ana Foothill 2, Servite 0

Santa Monica 10, Capistrano Valley Christian 5

Santa Paula 1, Oxnard Pacifica 0

St. Anthony 6, Ontario Christian 5

Temescal Canyon 7, Woodcrest Christian 6

Thousand Oaks 22, Buena 2

Torrance 9, Lakewood 3

Trabuco Hills 7, La Habra 5

Trinity Classical Academy 12, Fillmore 0

Tustin 10, Magnolia 6

Victor Valley 2, Hesperia 1

Villanova Prep 17, SLOCA 16

West Ranch 7, Bakersfield Centennial 1

West Valley 16, Xavier Prep 5

INTERSECTIONAL

El Rancho 8, South Gate 4

Gardena 11, Environmental Charter 7

Gladstone 10, Big Pine 2

JSerra 7, Buchanan 4

LA University 15, Animo Leadership 2

Orange Lutheran 8, Las Vegas Bishop Gorman 5

Palos Verdes 10, Narbonne 7

Rancho Bernardo 4, Hart 0

South El Monte 4, LA Marshall 3

SOFTBALL

CITY SECTION

Birmingham 4, Granada Hills Kennedy 2

SOUTHERN SECTION

Anaheim Canyon 12, Saugus 2

Arcadia 15, Montebello 0

Artesia 14, Ocean View 1

Arroyo 11, Flintridge Prep 8

Artesia 14, Avalon 3

Bishop Amat 12, Lakewood 7

Bonita 8, Whittier Christian 5

Brea Olinda 11, Aliso Niguel

Buena 8, Jurupa Hills 7

Burbank Burroughs 5, Royal 0

Burbank Burroughs 10, Oxnard 2

Camarillo 9, Hart 5

Capistrano Valley 5, La Palma Kennedy

Charter Oak 6, La Salle 4

Chino Hills 7, Bonita 3

Corona del Mar 7, Capistrano Valley Christian 4

Diamond Bar 10, Diamond Ranch 1

Don Lugo 5, Los Osos 1

Downey 3, Corona Santiago 1

Downey 5, Capistrano Valley 0

El Segundo 8, Rosary Academy 5

Flintridge Prep 8, Irvine 2

Fullerton 3, Norco 2

Garey 23, Yucca Valley 19

Glendora 7, Riverside North 1

Glendora 2, Santa Fe 2

Highland 10, Royal 2

Irvine University 13, Corona del Mar 1

JSerra 5, La Mirada 2

Jurupa Hills 9, Santa Paula 5

Lakewood St. Joseph 11, Lakeside 0

Lakewood St. Joseph 20, Lakeside 5

La Habra 7, Los Alamitos 6

La Mirada 8, Garden Grove Pacifica 5

La Palma Kennedy 5, Corona Santiago 2

Los Alamitos 8, Cypress 6

Maranatha 20, Laguna Hills 9

Maranatha 4, Fountain Valley 2

Marina 7, Villa Park 0

Murrieta Mesa 7, Garden Grove Pacifica 2

Murrieta Mesa 2, JSerra 1

Newport Harbor 6, Long Beach Wilson 4

Norco 2, Agoura 0

Northview 11, Flintridge Sacred Heart 0

Ontario Christian 16, West Covina 6

Oxnard 11, Highland 6

Paloma Valley 12, Chaparral 1

Paraclete 3, Quartz Hill 0

Paramount 3, Mira Costa 1

Paramount 11, Lompoc Cabrillo 0

Pasadena Poly 12, Duarte 8

Placentia Valencia 14, Capistrano Valley Christian 4

Redlands East Valley 6, Riverside Prep 3

Redlands East Valley 7, Don Lugo 0

Righetti 19, Westminster 0

San Clemente 12, Trabuco Hills 2

San Dimas 15, Norwalk 1

Santa Fe 2, Yucaipa 0

St. Genevieve 21, Bishop Diego 4

Westlake 8, South Torrance 0

Whittier 5, Kaiser 2

Yucaipa 6, Riverside North 2

INTERSECTIONAL

Brea Olinda 6, Campo Verde 3

Chavez 14, Canyon Country Canyon 3

Chino Hills 5, Perry (AZ) 1

El Segundo 11, San Leandro 2

Firebaugh 20, Fremont 1

Glendale 16, Van Nuys 6

Hemet 21, Bayfront Charter 1

Laguna Hills d. Clark (NV), forfeit

Legacy 7, Irvine 3

O’Connor 14, Saugus 6

Rio Rancho (NM) 15, Schurr 8

Westlake 5, Las Vegas Centennial 1

West Ranch 9, El Camino Real 3

West Torrance 22, Rio Rancho 10

Whittier Christian 15, Prairie Grove (AR) 8

BASEBALL

CITY SECTION

Diego Rivera 14, Animo Venice 2

East Valley 13, Reseda 3

El Camino Real 1, San Fernando 0

Fremont 10, Fairfax 1

Granada Hills Kennedy 13, South East 10

Hollywood 12, Roybal 4

Northridge Academy 3, Fulton 2

RFK Community 25, Contreras 7

SOCES 18, AMIT 2

Sun Valley Magnet 11, Grant 9

Sylmar 7, Legacy 1

Westchester 14, Gardena 13

SOUTHERN SECTION

Alhambra 18, San Gabriel 0

Aliso Niguel 9, Irvine 4

Antelope Valley 1, Desert 0

Apple Valley 4, Palmdale 1

Arcadia 24, Glendale 1

Ayala 7, San Dimas 1

Azusa 4, Nogales 1

Baldwin Park 9, Duarte 3

Barstow 5, Hesperia Christian 3

Bishop Amat 13, Gardena Serra 2

Bishop Union 6, Desert Christian 1

Bloomington 3, Fontana 1

Bonita 9, Los Osos 8

Burbank 6, Hoover 4

Burbank Burroughs 10, Pasadena 3

California City 18, Eastside 5

Camarillo 5, Fillmore 0

Canyon Springs 24, San Bernardino 2

Castaic 11, Heritage Christian 0

Century 2, El Toro 0

Claremont 3, Western Christian 2

Cornerstone Christian 21, Grove School 0

Corona Centennial 19, Eastvale Roosevelt 3

Corona Santiago 5, Crean Lutheran 4

Crespi 3, Saugus 2

Diamond Ranch 17, Pomona 2

Dos Pueblos 9, Ventura 5

Downey Calvary Chapel 8, Whitney 7

Dunn 19, Coastal Christian 6

El Modena 10, Garden Grove Pacifica 1

El Rancho 9, California 2

Entrepreneur 16, Packinghouse Christian 10

Firebaugh 10, Lynwood 2

Fullerton 1, Chaparral 0

Gabrielino 11, Long Beach Jordan 5

Gladstone 16, Bloomington Christian 4

Gladstone 18, Morningside 8

Godinez 6, Santa Ana Valley 0

Hemet 10, Beaumont 2

Heritage 10, Perris 0

Hillcrest 6, Savanna 3

Jurupa Hills 2, Liberty 0

Jurupa Valley 18, Bassett 0

Katella 5, Long Beach Poly 2

Laguna Beach 5, Downey 0

Laguna Hills 10, Portola 5

La Quinta 1, Beckman 0

La Salle 17, Temple City 0

La Serna 7, Santa Fe 3

Linfield Christian 3, Summit 1

Lone Pine 15, Silver Valley 2

Long Beach Cabrillo 5, La Sierra 0

Magnolia 11, Glenn 5

Mayfair 1, Norwalk 0

Montclair 19, Hacienda Heights Wilson 2

Montebello 10, Bell Gardens 0

North Torrance 7, Wiseburn-Da Vinci 5

Northview 12, Rancho Cucamonga 0

Orange County Pacifica Christian 3, Sage Hill 2

Palos Verdes 8, West Torrance 0

Paraclete 2, Cantwell-Sacred Heart 0

Paramount 12, Dominguez 0

Patriot 11, Riverside North 5

Placentia Valencia 7, Garden Grove 1

Righetti 14, Pasadena Marshall 5

Rio Mesa 15, Oxnard 3

Riverside King 14, Paloma Valley 8

Rubidoux 11, Pacific 1

San Jacinto 17, Cathedral City 0

San Marcos 1, Buena 0

San Marino 4, Glendora 3

Santa Ana Calvary Chapel 4, Northwood 3

Santa Margarita 1, Damien 0

Schurr 10, Mark Keppel 0

Serrano 6, PACS 0

Servite 6, Anaheim Canyon 1

Sierra Canyon 12, West Ranch 1

Sierra Vista 7, Garey 5

Simi Valley 8, Newbury Park 5

Sonora 21, La Palma Kennedy 1

South Torrance 4, El Segundo 3

St. Bonaventure 21, Channel Islands 2

St. John Bosco 1, Gahr 0

Sultana 11, Rialto 0

Sunny Hills 7, Charter Oak 7

Temescal Canyon 12, Citrus Hill 2

Torrance 4, Redondo Union 3

University Prep 14, ACE 2

Valley View 7, Big Bear 0

Villa Park 6, Capistrano Valley 4

Vista del Lago 10, Twentynine Palms 5

Vista Murrieta 24, Moreno Valley 1

Walnut 7, Whittier Christian 3

Warren 3, Millikan 1

West Covina 13, La Canada 7

Westminster 8, Santa Ana 2

Whittier 5, Rosemead 4

Xavier Prep 3, Anza Hamilton 2

Yucaipa 10, Kaiser 6

INTERSECTIONAL

Basic (NV) 4, Orange Lutheran 2

Burbank Providence 18, Collins Family 2

Dana Hills 10, Buchanan 3

El Dorado 10, Granada Hills 4

Flintridge Prep 12, Maywood CES 2

King/Drew 15, Compton Early College 11

Loyola 14, Venice 1

Mater Dei 15, Rockwall (TX) 1

Murrieta Mesa 4, Carlsbad 1

Taft 10, Oak Park 0

Valencia 12, Chatsworth 0

SOFTBALL

CITY SECTION

Huntington Park 19, Maywood CES 17

LA Roosevelt 20, Narbonne 6

Reseda 22, Fulton 9

SOCES 27, Fairfax 2

Taft 10, North Hollywood 0

Torres 12, Jefferson 9

VAAS 27, Valley Oaks CES 6

SOUTHERN SECTION

ACE 9, CIMSA 6

Agoura 2, Saugus 0

Alhambra 7, Sacred Heart of Jesus 6

Alta Loma 16, Claremont 6

Anza Hamilton 20, Xavier Prep 8

Apple Valley 15, Laguna Hills 2

Bishop Montgomery 10, Chadwick 0

Brea Olinda 6, Lakewood 4

Brentwood 12, Westridge 1

Capistrano Valley Christian 16, Artesia 5

Canyon Springs 13, San Bernardino 2

Citrus Hill 9, West Valley 8

Colton 19, Banning 8

Corona del Mar 14, Westminster La Quinta 1

Cypress 8, Brea Olinda 0

Don Lugo 11, West Covina 6

Dos Pueblos 7, Ventura 4

Eastvale Roosevelt 6, Colony 2

Eisenhower 11, Moreno Valley 10

Eastside 10, California City 8

Elsinore 11, Orange Vista 1

Fontana 16, Miller 6

Garden Grove Pacifica 4, Anaheim Canyon 2

Garden Grove Pacifica 6, Orange Lutheran 2

JSerra 4, Bonita 1

JSerra 2, Norco 0

La Mirada 14, Whittier Christian 0

Liberty 5, Hemet 1

Lone Pine 26, Silver Valley 15

Los Alamitos 7, Marina 0

Los Amigos 9, Bolsa Grande 4

Monrovia 18, Mayfield 5

Murrieta Mesa 3, Chino Hills 2

Murrieta Mesa 6, Agoura 1

Ontario 16, Nogales 6

Ontario Christian 3, Los Osos 0

Orange 12, Long Beach Cabrillo 0

Placentia Valencia 12, Ocean View 5

Portola 20, Oxford Academy 11

Ramona 7, Arlington 4

Redlands 13, Palm Springs 6

Redlands East Valley 3, Diamond Ranch 0

Redondo Union 9, Santa Monica 5

Righetti 10, Newbury Park 0

Riverside Poly 7, Rancho Cucamonga 2

Riverside Prep 5, Diamond Bar 0

San Marcos 13, Buena 11

Santa Margarita 8, Maranatha 5

Saugus 5, Chino Hills 0

Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 15, Culver City 0

South Pasadena 3, Rio Hondo Prep 1

University Prep 4, Serrano 2

Valley View 13, Kaiser 2

Villa Park 9, Lakewood 2

Walnut 5, Sierra Vista 3

Westminster 12, St. Pius X-St, Matthias Academy 11

INTERSECTIONAL

Arizona Charter Academy 11, Whittier Christian 1

Castaic 8, Chatsworth 0

La Habra 3, Cibola (AZ) 1

Los Alamitos 3, Las Vegas (NV) Mountain View Christian 2

Orange Lutheran 7, Perry (AZ) 1

Schurr 11, Cibola (AZ) 3

South Torrance 8, Las Vegas (NV) Arbor View 4

Tehachapi 10, Bishop Union 0

Valley Christian 17, San Leandro 2

Vasquez 17, Castle Park 2

Westlake 6, Las Vegas (NV) Arbor View 3

Westlake 11, River Valley (AZ) 1

The early rounds of the BNP Paribas Open began Wednesday, with top seeds slated to start play Friday during the 12-day ATP and WTPA Master 1000 tournament.

A busy stretch of the tennis season reaches another gear at Indian Wells Tennis Garden, the second-largest outdoor tennis stadium in the world.

While many consider it the “fifth Grand Slam” because of its elite player field, amenities and equal prize money for men and women, professionals acknowledge the tournament is part of a stressful stretch on the tennis calendar.

Indian Wells is followed by the Miami Open, another two-week Master 1000 tournament. The tour stops are known as the “Sunshine Double.”

Some players made the short trip from Indian Wells to Las Vegas this past weekend to participate in the MGM Grand Slam, an exhibition designed to help players ramp up for back-to-back tournaments.

American Reilly Opelka, a 6-foot–11 pro, said managing fatigue after a series of tournaments before hitting Indian Wells has altered his practice and play in exhibition matches, including a loss to 19-year-old Brazilian Joao Fonseca in Las Vegas.

“Normally in any kind of competition, you get excited and play with a pressure point … but you don’t feel this when you are practicing,” Opelka said.

“I was trying to feel like this a few days ago while practicing with … [Tommy Paul,] but instead we got tired and hungry. … That usually doesn’t happen. We just decided to stop and go to eat somewhere.”

Paul said despite the decision to cut practice short, he feels fresh for the upcoming events.

“I started the year pretty well and for Americans, we are excited for the Sunshine Double,” Paul said.

Casper Rudd lost to Opelka during the first round of the Las Vegas exhibition. The Norwegian also lost a week ago during the first round of the Acapulco Open, falling to Chinese qualifier Yibing Wu in straight sets.

Rudd said he felt “extremely tired” after the Australian Open in January.

Rancho Palo Verdes resident Taylor Fritz, ranked No. 7 in the world, said the best way to prepare for the grueling tour schedule is “putting [in] the time, work and repetition.”

“… Be there, be focused on the quality that you are doing,” said Fritz, a 28-year-old who won the Indian Wells title in 2022.

While some players are guarding against burnout, others struggled to even reach California. Some players who live in Dubai, including Russians Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev, have to contend with closed airspace triggered by the U.S. and Israel bombing Iran.

The ATP announced Wednesday that, “the vast majority of players who were in Dubai have successfully departed today on selected flights.”