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.
NUMBER ONE It’s hard to imagine a Long Beach high school football season to go better than it did at the end of 2021 when Long Beach Poly, Jordan, Compton and St. Anthony all reached CIF championship games. Poly was moved down to Division 4 but its 20th CIF football championship didn’t mean any less […]
Long Beach Poly cross country senior Will Frankenfeld’s season ended right where he wanted it to, in San Diego at the prestigious FootLocker Nationals. Frankenfeld did the city proud with an outstanding finish, taking 14th in the nation with a 15:52 5K time, along with a third-place finish out of all West Region runners and […]