An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 18 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous state and national honors for his writing as well as the CIF Southern Section’s Champion For Character Award, and is the author of three books about Long Beach history.
For the first time ever, three Long Beach athletes received Pro Bowl honors this year, as Poly alums JuJu Smith-Schuster and Jurrell Casey were joined by Wilson alum Joel Bitonio. It was the first Pro Bowl appearances for Smith-Schuster and Bitonio, both of whom have a strong chance of becoming mainstays. Casey was unable to […]
The562’s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2025-26 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl. Sometimes all you need is to be home. That was the case for the Long Beach State women’s soccer team as they shook off a four-game losing streak with a historic 6-0 win against Nevada Thursday night at George […]
