Long Beach Poly alum and city legend Willie McGinest will be featured on the NFL Network in a one-hour documentary this evening at 5 p.m. Long Beach time; the show is already slotted to re-air several times in the coming week. A Football Life: Willie McGinest will take a deep look into the Long Beach […]
With just one week of Moore League play left, Wilson and Millikan faced each other in what was essentially a third-place match on Thursday afternoon in the Howard Lyon Gymnasium–neither team has any remaining matches against the league’s playoff teams. It was a back-and-forth five-set thriller but it was the Bruins that came out on […]
We’ve got video highlights of the Bruins’ five-set win over the Rams. Click SUBSCRIBE to support Long Beach sports coverage and videos like these. High School Volleyball: Wilson vs. Millikan We’ve got highlights of the Bruins’ five-set win over the Rams. Visit the562.org and click SUBSCRIBE to support Long Beach sports coverage.
We’ve got great shots of the Bruins’ five-set win over the Rams courtesy of photographer Stephen Dachman.
Long Beach’s oldest sports tradition will take place on Friday night as Long Beach Poly hosts Compton for its homecoming game. The Jackrabbits have been welcoming alumni for homecoming games since their first one in 1908, the inaugural season for the team (the school opened in 1895). It will also be the most significant meeting […]
The Rams are hosting the Bruins at 4:30 p.m. in a battle for third place in the Moore League. We will have live updates from the match. If you see anything missing tweet us at @562sports. Tweets by 562sports
The CIF Southern Section recently released the divisions for the winter sports season, so Long Beach sports fans can get a preview of where their favorite teams will be competing for CIF championships. Because the competitive equity playoff format re-divisions teams every year, these can also serve as a preliminary “power ranking” of local teams […]
Photo courtesy John Fajardo, LBCC All fabric is made in essentially the same way: hundreds of individual threads woven together to make something strong, something whole. A football jersey is made that way. A community is made that way too, or a football team: e pluribus unum. Out of many, one. When a hole is […]
In another world, Jayon Brown might not be a Long Beach Poly alum. Brown exhibited something often lacking in high school athletes: patience. The second-year Titans linebacker didn’t start as a Jackrabbit until his senior year of high school, and ended up signing with UCLA after being lightly recruited. He didn’t start for the Bruins […]
Congratulations to this week’s Athletes of the Week and thanks to Naples Rib Company for their sponsorship. Malik Bradford, Millikan Football Millikan receiver Malik Bradford is one of the city’s top players this year, but injuries have kept him from making his mark in a big way. That all changed Friday against Compton, when Bradford […]