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.
It’s been a heck of a 2023 already for recent Long Beach Poly alum Colin Geer. Geer led his Long Beach Poly team to a historic Moore League title, signed with Michigan, won CIF-SS and CIF State titles, and was named the city’s top high school boys’ athlete in our All-City Awards as well as […]
All of The562’s water polo coverage for the 2021-22 school year is sponsored by Aqualand. Visit AqualandOfTheFree.com to learn more. The Long Beach Poly boys’ water polo team hasn’t won a CIF Southern Section championship since 1929–and in the last 92 years, it’s hard to imagine the Jackrabbits have played in many games that were better or […]
We’re hoping that as we drive all over Southern California to cover this week’s championship games, we’ll see you in the stands! Long Beach and Moore League teams made history with four teams in the finals, including Jordan making it for the first time ever and Compton making it for the first time since 1979. […]
