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.
This week we’re talking about the top Long Beach sports stories we’re looking forward to in 2019. 01:20 NCAA Men’s Volleyball Final Four Coming To Long Beach 08:10 Long Beach Girls’ Water Polo 11:15 CIF Basketball Playoffs 13:30 Long Beach College Basketball Struggles 16:30 Dirtbags & Long Beach State Softball 17:40 CIF Track & Field […]
Last year was a painful introduction to Moore League baseball for Poly coach Brent Lavoie, whose team went 6-6 in league, losing every game to the league’s other playoff teams. The Jackrabbits (8-8, 1-0) were competitive in all but one of those losses, with five of them coming by nine runs including a 1-0 loss […]
There was never any concern among the Long Beach Poly football coaches that their team would overlook Millikan and get ahead of themselves thinking about next week’s big game against undefeated Wilson. “Frankly, since their head coach got hired, they’ve talked a lot of trash,” said Poly coach Stephen Barbee, whose team started 1-3 but […]