JJ Fiddler
JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
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Baseball: Ben Howard, Wilson Finish Strong To Beat Lakewood

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The562’s baseball coverage in 2025 is sponsored by the Millikan, Long Beach Poly, and Lakewood baseball boosters. he562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. Wilson baseball has developed a habit of steadily improving. Once again the […]

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Football: Wilson Blows Out Portola in Season Opener

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History tends to repeat itself. As they did last year, the Bruins dominated Portola under a new head coach, this time led by first-year coach Raudric Curtis in a 35-0 season-opening win. Senior quarterback Mack Cooper came back this season playing turnover-free football as he ended the game with 159 passing yards and a touchdown […]

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Over 100 Long Beach Athletes Prepping For CIF-SS Track Prelims

Mike Guardabascio

The562’s cross country and track & field coverage is sponsored by Joe Carlson & Debbie Hughes. More than 100 Long Beach entries from five different local high schools will compete in Saturday’s CIF Southern Section Track and Field prelims, most of them in the Trabuco Hills Division 1 prelim (as well as a group in […]