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.
The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009 The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial Long Beach has been known for producing great swimmers and aquatic athletes for more than a century, which makes the 2023 that Long Beach Poly’s Colin Geer and Wilson’s Sammie Hamilton […]
Expectations are high for Millikan’s girls’ basketball team this year, with the Rams starting the season on the CIF Southern Section’s Division 2AA watchlist. Head coach Lorene Morgan is all but guaranteed to become just the 19th high school girls’ basketball coach in California history to reach 600 wins this season–according to the Cal-Hi Sports […]
