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.
Long Beach Poly football coach Stephen Barbee is familiar with Compton’s double-wing offense, which relies on punishing run after punishing run, with some misdirection thrown in. Barbee dialed up the right defense for his Jackrabbits, who platooned several defensive lineman and employed eight different D-Line combinations to shut down the Compton attack, which was limited […]
Yesterday marked the first Moore League track and field dual meets of the season as Long Beach Poly visited Wilson in a meeting of the city’s two top teams. The Jackrabbits prevailed in the boys’ and girls’ team competitions with Poly’s Miguel Orozco setting a new state leading mark in the long jump and Wilson’s […]
The562’s season previews for the 2022-23 school year are sponsored by Vertical Raise, the official team fundraising partner of The562. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Volleyball in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Misty May-Treanor and the Dream in Gold Foundation. Local boys’ volleyball has run through Wilson High for the past two seasons. […]
