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.
Long Beach State men’s basketball got a much needed confidence boost with a 93-62 victory over Fresno Pacific at Walter Pyramid on Friday night. LBSU (2-3) set season highs in points scored, rebounds, assists and field goal percentage in the victory over Division II Fresno Pacific (0-5). “We’ve been working on not running so many […]
The562’s coverage of Dirtbags Baseball for the 2023 season is sponsored by P2S, Inc. Visit p2sinc.com to learn more. A career day from catcher Connor Burns helped the Long Beach State Dirtbags beat UC Santa Barbara 7-3 on Mother’s Day to take the Big West Conference series on Bohl Diamond at Blair Field. Burns went 3-for-5 with […]
Long Beach State (8-15, 2-5) suffered a heartbreaking 82-80 loss to first-place UC Irvine on Saturday night at Walter Pyramid. READ MORE Here are some great action shots from our own Stephen Dachman.