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.
In a week that has featured shutdowns and postponements for a number of high school teams in Long Beach, both Poly and Lakewood found themselves shorthanded for Tuesday night’s Moore League clash at Vets. Additionally, both squads were coming off less than ideal starts to their league campaigns, as a couple of tough losses prior […]
One week until the start of the high school football season and a second Moore League school has had a shutdown over COVID-19 positives. Long Beach Poly football coach Stephen Barbee confirmed that his team canceled a planned scrimmage this week over a positive COVID-19 positive test, and will not play next week’s season opener […]