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.
The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial One of our Long Beach Unified School District interns Allison Nguyen helped take photos for this gallery.
If you don’t already have a ticket for Friday night’s Big Game between Wilson and Long Beach Poly, our suggestion is to make sure you’ve got a Twitter account and that you’re following us. The game is officially sold out with all 4,500 seats spoken for at Wilson’s Stephens Field. The Bruins sold their allotment […]
Talk to any Long Beach basketball coach about last year, and none of them are happy about it. The lack of summer and fall practices, and the quick start-up of the season’s first games after the Los Angeles County Public Health Department gave the greenlight made things difficult on everyone. One team that really made […]
