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.
Earlier this season, Wilson’s girls’ volleyball team defeated Long Beach Poly for the first time since 2011, a result that has largely fueled the competitive standings race in the Moore League this season. It’s a loss that’s been on the Jackrabbits’ mind, and they flipped the result on Thursday afternoon at home, sweeping the Bruins […]
Like every year for the last 130 or so years in Long Beach’s history (football games were played here before the city even officially formed), 2018 was a memorable one for sports. As it draws to a close, we look back on the top 10 sports stories from the last 12 months. 10. Long Beach […]
Compton (2-1-1) is starting a new era with a familiar face as first-year coach Sammy Flores takes over the program. Flores has been coaching the lower levels at Compton since 2014, and knows what kind of system he wants to run with senior Carlos Rivera leading the way. “We want to be touching the ball […]
