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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Long Beach High School Football CalPreps Rankings, Week Seven

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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 […]

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High School Football Preview: Millikan at Los Alamitos

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Millikan has a tough test to open the shortened 2020-21 season, making the short trip behind the Orange Curtain to take on Los Alamitos for a 6 p.m. game on opening night. These nearby rivals represent a compelling week one matchup, as both teams garnered extensive club football experience while waiting for the 2020-21 season. […]

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Football: St. Anthony Crushes La Salle for Homecoming Win

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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. If St. Anthony could have scripted Friday night’s Homecoming Game against La Salle, there probably wouldn’t have been many edits. Just about everything went right for the home team as […]