Mike Guardabascio
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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This is how the Moore League boys’ soccer standings look after three weeks of action. STANDINGS Wilson (6-0-0) 18 points LB Poly (3-1-1) 10 points Millikan (3-1-0) 9 points Jordan (2-4-1) 7 points Cabrillo (2-3-0) 6 points Lakewood (1-3-0) 3 points Compton (0-6-0) 0 points Support The562.org Soccer We aren’t LA, we aren’t OC. By […]

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Compton girls’ basketball has an entire new look this year. After graduating a strong set of seniors, there is only one returner for the Tarbabes: sophomore guard Nakara Johnson. “She leads more by example than word of mouth,” Head Coach Derrick Anderson said. “I think that’s more valuable than someone who just talks.” Johnson is […]

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Top Moments #9: Millikan Football Returns To Playoffs

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After Millikan fired longtime beloved Rams coach Kirk Diego, the MIllikan football program fell on hard times. After going 14-36 from 2012 to 2016, the Rams made it to the CIF-SS quarterfinals in 2017, a feat that they repeated again this year, going 8-3 and once again taking second in the Moore League. With the […]