JJ FiddlerComments Off on PODCAST: What Up, Long Beach?! Mascot Mayhem
This week we’re talking about local college rebranding (1:00) before handing out midseason grades to all of the Long Beach high school football teams (5:00) and discussing cheating in sports (20:00).
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’s hire of Eric Valenzuela as the new coach of the Dirtbags brought a lot of reactions across our phones. The university was as confident as could be that they’d gotten their guy. Recruits were clearly thrilled — kids have been committing to the program while those who’d been committed to Valenzuela’s old […]
The562’s coverage of cross country and track and field is sponsored by Bryson Financial. The start of the Moore League cross country season came with big storylines as there were some fireworks as well as some history made at El Dorado Park. Long Beach Poly’s Cameron Rhone narrowly edged two-time defending league champion Jason Parra for […]
The562’s coverage of high school soccer is sponsored by Long Beach FC. The562’s coverage of Cabrillo Athletics is sponsored by the Cohn Family. The Cabrillo girls’ soccer team had their historic postseason ended in the CIF Southern Section Division 6 quarterfinals as Segerstom took down the Jaguars 1-0. Sergerstom didn’t want to waste any time in […]
