Mike Guardabascio
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.
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COLUMN: Wilson Basketball Coach Resignation Strikes a Nerve Nationwide

Mike Guardabascio

I have to admit that, while I put the same amount of effort into every story I write, I was not expecting a coaching update I did about the girls’ basketball team at Wilson High to be the most-read story I’ve written in 17 years as a sportswriter in Long Beach.  The story, however, touched […]

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Century Club Banquet Returns With Star-Studded Night

Mike Guardabascio

After a two-year absence caused by COVID-19, the Long Beach Century Club’s Sports Night Banquet recently made its return in a packed house at the Grand. The club’s 65th awards banquet recognized the top high school and college athletes in the city, as well as many volunteers from the local sports world, and also crowned this […]

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The562.org’s Athletes of the Week

Mike Guardabascio

The562’s Athletes of the Week is sponsored by the Long Beach Century Club. Congratulations to our Athletes of the Week and thanks to the Long Beach Century Club and Naples Rib Company for their support. HIGH SCHOOL Kate Eckenrode, Wilson Volleyball Wilson senior libero Kate Eckenrode has been the Bruins’ defensive leader all season, and […]