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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Football Long Beach City College

The Hole: Grief, Football, And Trophies At LBCC

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Photo courtesy John Fajardo, LBCC All fabric is made in essentially the same way: hundreds of individual threads woven together to make something strong, something whole. A football jersey is made that way. A community is made that way too, or a football team: e pluribus unum. Out of many, one. When a hole is […]

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Football Long Beach City College

LBCC Football Starts Conference Play With A Win

Mike Guardabascio

STORY BY MATT SIMON The 2019 season has been deemed the redemption tour for the Long Beach City College football team. Heading into Saturday night’s contest the Vikings (4-2, 1-0) were 0-2 on their journey to make up for a disappointing 2018 campaign. Behind the arm of quarterback Derrach West and a staunch defense, LBCC […]

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PHOTOS: Long Beach Poly vs. Los Alamitos Football

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We’ve got great photos of Poly’s win from photographers John Napalan and Art O’Neill of All-In Press.