An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards 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.
The562’s coverage of Dirtbags Baseball for the 2024 season is sponsored by P2S, Inc. Visit p2sinc.com to learn more. This group of Long Beach State Dirtbags are chock full of sticktoitiveness. Whether the results are positive or negative, they’ve been dedicated to hard work and improvement all season. That was on display Friday night as the Dirtbags […]
When it was announced two weeks ago that Long Beach State and Dan Monson had reached a five-year contract extension, LBSU athletic director Andy Fee pointed out that he didn’t like coaches entering lame-duck years where they were on the last season of their contract. Astute 49er fans might have perked their antennae up at […]