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Long Beach Boys’ Cross Country Preview

After 11 months of waiting for competitive high school sports to return, this might be the most highly-anticipated cross country season ever. The traditional fall sport has been bumped into the spring, but players and coaches alike are thrilled for the opportunity to compete again, albeit under very different circumstances. Rather than the traditional cluster […]

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Cabrillo Cross Country Lakewood Long Beach Poly Millikan Wilson

Long Beach Girls’ Cross Country Preview

After 11 months of waiting for competitive high school sports to return, this might be the most highly-anticipated cross country season ever. The traditional fall sport has been bumped into the spring, but players and coaches alike are thrilled for the opportunity to compete again, albeit under very different circumstances. Rather than the traditional cluster […]

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Baseball Long Beach State

Modern Bullpen the Newest Upgrade to Bohl Diamond at Blair Field

Bohl Diamond at Blair Field has a longstanding reputation as a pitcher’s ballpark. From its spacious outfield dimensions to the home run-suppressing marine layer that’s known to creep over the playing field after sundown, it’s long been recognized as a place where pitchers have the edge. It’s now been five years since the new outfield […]

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Club Sports Football Video

VIDEO: Long Beach Grind vs. So Cal, WCA Club Football

WCA Club Football: Long Beach Grind vs So Cal Coverage of Long Beach Grind’s double-overtime win over So Cal on February 6, 2021 in Chino, CA. For more coverage of all Long Beach sports, head to www.The562.org. We are a non-profit, community-funded media outlet in the City of Long Beach, covering primarily sports and education. […]

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Basketball Long Beach State Video

VIDEO: Long Beach State Women’s Basketball vs. UCSB

  NCAA Women’s Basketball: Long Beach State vs. UC Santa Barbara Long Beach State improved to 9-0 in Big West play with a 61-49 win over visiting UC Santa Barbara on Friday night. For more coverage of all Long Beach sports, head to www.The562.org. We are a non-profit, community-funded media outlet in the City of […]

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Charity COVID-19

FEATURE: Long Beach Natives Delivering Homemade Care Packages to Feed Homeless

For many, the events of the past year summoned feelings of helplessness. While the pandemic claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and we remained largely isolated from one another, the problems in the world seemed too large to tackle; too complex to comprehend. In such a chaotic world, what can one individual do to make […]

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Long Beach Adds More Scholarship Athletes During Football Signing Period

While the full Signing Day experience was not in effect due to the coronavirus pandemic, a few Long Beach students were able to join the growing list of athletes in the Class of 2021 who’ve earned college scholarships. While a majority of the athletes signed during the early signing period last November, and were joined […]

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Basketball Long Beach State

LBSU Notebook: Women’s Hoops Remains Unbeaten Atop Big West

It took about seven-and-a-half minutes for Long Beach State’s women’s basketball team to shake off the rust from a three-week hiatus, but once the Beach found its groove, the results were the same: wins. LBSU picked up a pair of victories last weekend over new Big West rival UC San Diego, improving to 9-1 overall […]

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Basketball Long Beach State

Feature: Long Beach State’s Naomi Hunt Grateful To Be Back On Court

The start of the current NCAA women’s basketball season was delayed by about a month due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But if you’d been waiting for nearly two years to play a competitive basketball game, what’s a few more weeks? That was the situation for Long Beach State’s Naomi Hunt, who missed all of […]