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 a new day for the Long Beach State women’s basketball program, and a baller shall lead them. Last year in his first season as head coach, Jeff Cammon guided Long Beach to an 8-23 record. That sounds bad, but Cammon inherited a team late in the recruiting cycle that had a heavily depleted roster […]
The562’s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2024-25 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl. The562’s coverage of Aquatic sports in Long Beach is sponsored by the Aquatic Capital of America Foundation. For the second time in four seasons, Long Beach State will be represented in the NCAA Men’s Water Polo tournament at Stanford this weekend. […]