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 Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Poly alum Jayon Brown and PlayFair Sports Management. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by JuJu Smith-Schuster and the JuJu Foundation.
The562’s coverage of football in 2024-25 is sponsored by The Terry Donahue Memorial California Showcase. Just two days after Christmas, Delaware State University made a big splash with the announcement that DeSean Jackson would be their next head football coach. That news reverberated from Dover to Long Beach, and some of the city’s aspiring football talent […]
We don’t normally cite CalPreps game score predictions, but with so much interest in this week’s CIF-SS football quarterfinal playoff games, why not? Long Beach Poly actually moved back up over Los Al in this week’s CalPreps ratings, and is now once again No. 4 in the CIF-SS, with Mission Viejo No. 5 and Los […]
