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.
As athletes begin to specialize in a sport or even a position within a sport at earlier and earlier ages, the era of the multisport star has largely come to a close. It’s no longer the norm for the city dominant high school athletes to earn Player of the Year consideration in multiple sports the […]
The Moore League boys’ soccer season got back underway after the holiday break on Monday afternoon. Cabrillo 3, LB Poly 0 The Jaguars (13-1-2, 3-1-0) jumped over the Jackrabbits (7-4-3, 2-1-1) in the Moore League standings with this victory on the road. Jafet Ortega found Alexis Torres to give Cabrillo a 1-0 lead at halftime. […]
Filing out of the stadium at Rancho Cucamonga, Long Beach Poly fans all had a similar look on their faces: disbelief. The Jackrabbits had outgained the Cougars by 100 yards, forced two turnovers, doubled up Rancho’s vaunted passing attack by yardage, and had the ball inside the Rancho Cucamonga red zone four times. Despite all […]