Long Beach Poly, St. Anthony, and Avalon all picked up opening-round wins on Thursday evening. Here’s links to all our coverage. Long Beach Poly def. Mira Costa 3-0 READ MORE about how Poly took down the Mustangs in three sets to set up next week’s big showdown with Mater Dei. WATCH VIDEO / SEE PHOTOS […]
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PREVIEW: Long Beach Poly at Lakewood Football
Long Beach Poly closes the regular season tonight on the road against Lakewood, looking to sew up an undefeated Moore League championship. The Jackrabbits (7-2, 5-0) have outscored league opponents 191-21, a margin that would likely have been bigger if lightning hadn’t ended last week’s game against Jordan a few minutes into the second quarter […]
TONIGHT: Long Beach Girls’ Volleyball Teams Start Playoffs
Six Long Beach girls’ volleyball teams start the playoffs tonight at 6 p.m.–we’ve got previews of every match and we’ll have live updates this evening. The second round is slated for Saturday at 6 p.m., except for Division 1, which won’t play again until next week. Division 1 Long Beach Poly vs. Mira Costa CLICK […]
PREVIEW: Lakewood at Marymount CIF Girls’ Volleyball
Division 1: Lakewood at Marymount, 6 p.m. Lakewood drew the short straw in this year’s CIF-SS Division 1 playoff brackets, dropping from No. 9 in the rankings to essentially No. 14 in the final week, now traveling to face No. 3 Marymount, a loaded team that went 29-8 en route to a Mission League championship. […]
PODCAST: What Up, Long Beach?! Weekend Sports Calendar
What Up, Long Beach?! is our weekly podcast that features local sports discussions between JJ Fiddler and Mike Guardabasico. 04:00 Long Beach Sports Calendar Oct. 18-21 11:00 Obituary: Basketball Coaching Legend Tex Winter 13:45 What It’s Like To Be A Los Angeles Dodgers Fan This Week 22:00 Either, or… Do You Like Trash Talk?
Column: Let’s Hear It For The Band (And The Cheerleaders, And…)
I’ll be perfectly blunt: usually when I go to a football game, I’m there for the football game. Yes, I recognize the value of pageantry in sports and especially in football. I make sure to include the marching band, the drumline, and the cheerleaders in my highlight videos and I enjoy having some music in […]
Long Beach Sports Calendar Oct. 18-21
Find out where your favorite Long Beach teams are playing this weekend… THURSDAY High School Girls’ Golf, Noon Today is the final round of the Moore League individual tournament at El Dorado Golf Course. It will be the only 18-hole round of the week after nine holes were played at Recreation Park and Skylinks on […]
LB In NFL: JuJu Smith-Schuster Hauls In Catch Of The Year
It’s not often that you know something is the “Fill in the Blank of the Year” as it happens, but there’s not likely to be a catch by a Long Beach NFL player this year that tops the one JuJu Smith-Schuster hauled in on Sunday for the Steelers in a narrow Pittsburgh win over the […]
The562.org’s Athletes Of The Week
Congrats to this week’s Athletes of the Week and thanks to Naples Rib Company for their sponsorship! Aliya Mesihovich, Wilson Cross Country For the second time this year, Wilson junior Aliya Mehisovich led a Moore League cross country meet wire to wire and ended up with a big first-place finish. Mehisovich won the individual gold […]
Long Beach Football Schedule, Week 10
Find out where and when your favorite football team is playing this week. Avalon @ Calvary Chapel (Sat. 11 a.m.) Compton @ Cabrillo Long Beach Poly @ Lakewood Wilson @ Millikan St. Anthony vs. St. Paul LBCC vs. Bakersfield (Sat. 5 p.m.) BYE: Jordan