An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 18 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous state and national honors 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 Long Beach tennis is sponsored by the Long Beach State Tennis Boosters. The CIF-SS released its pairings for the 2022 girls’ tennis championships on Monday, and the four Moore League playoff teams have learned their draw. Wilson is the only local team who is guaranteed a spot in the first round on […]
With a capacity crowd behind them and all of the positive momentum on their side, Compton looked poised to lift its first CIF Southern Section football championship plaque for the first time since 1979 on Saturday night at Compton College. Unfortunately, everything that could go wrong did go wrong for Compton in a 43-8 lost […]
The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Poly alum Jayon Brown and PlayFair Sports Management. We’ve been getting lots of questions this week about the Long Beach Poly vs. Serra game, scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff at Veterans Memorial Stadium. It’s Poly’s home opener and a […]
