JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
The562’s coverage of football in 2023-24 is sponsored in part by the MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center Foundation and Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital Foundation. The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013
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This week we’re taking pit stops all over the downtown street course to talk about what the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach means to this city and talk to driver Simon Pagenaud (a race winner here) as well as Grand Prix Association of Long Beach President and CEO Jim Michaelian.