Photos courtesy Beach City Hoops/@ClutchClipHoop The spring and summer months traditionally serve as a final opportunity for unsigned high school athletes to find a college scholarship. Through showcase events and travel ball, seniors who have yet to sign with a university can use this time to get discovered and forge an opportunity at the next […]
Photo courtesy Yogalution Movement As some retail stores and public spaces are beginning to reopen around Long Beach, the desire for a return to normalcy only continues to grow. Changes to the stay-at-home order seem to be arriving daily, meaning there’s still plenty of uncertainty for local businesses forced to decide between sticking to their […]
A five-star basketball recruit is usually a kid with the world on a string. But for Long Beach Poly junior Peyton Watson, life looks pretty much the same as it does for the other students at his high school and in the city of Long Beach. Were school still open, he’d be turning heads on […]
This week on the podcast we’re updating you on the latest COVID-19 news for Long Beach sports and schools (is no news good news?) before interviewing Long Beach State Dirtbags Adam Seminaris and Jacob Hughey about their unpredictable future. We also talk to Hughey about believing in the existence of aliens, and why the way […]
The Long Beach Unified School District announced last week that in-person graduation ceremonies are officially off for the class of 2020, and that summer school and other programs will not take place on physical campuses this summer, with a few limited exceptions. There had been some hope of a delayed in-person graduation ceremony, but with […]
This week on the LB Fee Show we talk to Long Beach State Dirtbags coach Eric Valenzuela about the MLB draft, recruiting virtually and Tony Gwynn.
Drew Buggs had been dreaming about this season of basketball for years. He was going to be a redshirt junior at Hawaii, where he was going to improve on his record-setting career with his best-ever effort. His family was going to come out to the islands to see a game, his first time playing in […]
Some golfers joke that course greens fees are how “you pay for the sound” of the ball rattling around the hollow plastic cup. It’s a unique noise that can only be found on the green. Although Long Beach golf courses reopened last weekend, that sound is off the market. The pins have been screwed into […]
All five American Golf courses in Long Beach will be reopened on Saturday morning after almost two months of lying dormant because of COVID-19 shutdowns. The return of golf and other outdoor activities is part of phase two of Long Beach restarting the local economy. “It’s really exciting,” American Golf regional general manager Gary Johnson […]
Photo by Brittany Hendricks It’s now been seven weeks since Long Beach’s “Safer at Home” order went into effect on March 19, and with testing capabilities increasing and hospitalization rates falling, the city is looking towards a measured, incremental re-opening of specific sectors of the community. Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom outlined a four-stage plan […]