Mike Guardabascio
An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards for his writing as well as the CIF Southern Section’s Champion For Character Award, and is the author of three books about Long Beach history.
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In the 18 years that the Moore League has had girls’ water polo, only two league championships have gone to a school other than Wilson–and the Bruins are the favorites as usual headed into the 2019-20 season. That said, there’s plenty of talent on all the teams to make things interesting. The league season will […]

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Feature: Wilson’s Sammie Hamilton, Team USA Begin Maccabiah Games

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The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009 It’s been Sammie Hamilton’s dream for as long as she can remember, and next week for the first time she’ll compete with a Team USA swim cap on. Hamilton is part of the strong USA contingent competing among more than 10,000 […]