JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
All of The562’s water polo coverage for the 2021-22 school year is sponsored by Aqualand. Visit AqualandOfTheFree.com to learn more. The easiest way to gauge how favorable the CIF Southern Section playoff draw is for any given league is to check on the third-place finisher. Millikan (13-12) finished third in the Moore League, and like the rest […]
The St. Anthony boys’ basketball team has arrived. After a five-year march under head coach Allen Caveness to reach the heights of Division 1, the Saints officially planted their flag as an Open Division contender on Saturday afternoon, defeating St. John Bosco on the road to claim the Bosco Winter Classic Title. The Saints hung […]
The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. For the first time ever, a Wilson tennis team took home CIF gold in 2023. The boys’ program beat Brea Olinda, 12-6, back in May at the Claremont Club, making school history and bringing a third tennis title to Long […]
