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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The Long Beach Poly girls’ basketball team has not lost a Moore League contest since 2008, but head coach Carl Buggs admitted that this year the gap between his Jackrabbits and league foes like Wilson and Millikan was not as big as it’s been in years past, due in large part to the Jackrabbits’ inexperienced […]

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PODCAST: How Did Cabrillo Boys’ Soccer Make History?

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This week we’re talking about how the Cabrillo boys’ soccer team go to the first CIF Southern Section championship game in school history, plus much more. SUBSCRIBE to What Up, Long Beach?! 00:00 How Cabrillo Boys’ Soccer Took Their School To Its First CIF-SS Championship Game 14:30 Athletes Of The Week 16:00 Long Beach Poly […]

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Obituary: Jordan Hoops Legend James Hardy Passes Away

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IMAGE COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO Former NBA player James Hardy, one of the best athletes to ever come out of Jordan High, passed away in late December of a heart attack. Hardy, who was 64, was from Knoxville, Alabama but came to Long Beach with his parents as a child as part of the […]