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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The562’s coverage of track and field is sponsored by Bryson Financial  The city of Long Beach had an excellent day of qualifying at the CIF Southern Section Track and Field prelims on Saturday. Of the 102 entries into Saturday’s prelims, 58 made it through to next weekend’s championship meet, which will be held at Moorpark […]

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The All-City Freshmen of the Year award has been a great predictor of success the last two years, with previous winners Camille Lindsay, Maya O’Dea, Jason Parra, and Sammie Hamilton all continuing to dominate the Moore League this year (all four won Moore League Player of the Year or individual championship honors in 2021-22). We […]

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Friday night brings a big Moore League boys’ soccer showdown between Poly and Millikan. Plus, Millikan is hosting Poly in a key girls’ basketball game and Jordan is hosting Lakewood in boys’ basketball in a battle for second place. We’ll also have updates from Long Beach State men’s volleyball hosting Ohio State at Walter Pyramid. […]