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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CIF Basketball: Washington Powers Millikan Past West Torrance

Tyler Hendrickson

At this time of year, every time a basketball team takes the court they find themselves in a win-or-go-home situation. But the Millikan Rams have been playing must-win games for the past two weeks, and have won them all. The Rams ended the regular season winning five consecutive games, including a play-in game for the […]

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The562.org’s College Athletes of the Week

Mike Guardabascio

Congratulations to our college Athletes of the Week and thanks as always to Naples Rib Company for their sponsorship. Katie Kennedy, Long Beach State Volleyball The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team improved to 6-5 with an upset of No. 21 University of San Diego last week, their first Top 25 win in five seasons. […]

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Long Beach High School Football CalPreps Rankings, Week Two

Mike Guardabascio

With the new playoff format last year, the number question we got at every practice we went to was about playoff divisions. With that in mind we’re going to track where teams stand each week in the CalPreps rankings, which are used to determine the CIF Southern Section’s playoff divisions at the end of the […]