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 […]
Welcome to this week’s The562.org Athletes of the Week. HIGH SCHOOL Rachel Glenn, Wilson Track & Field Wilson’s Rachel Glenn planted a flag on Saturday at El Camino College as the Bruin cleared 5’11” in the high jump. Glenn’s mark was the top in the nation so far this year, and would have been the […]