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 Jordan Athletics is sponsored by former LBUSD superintendent Chris Steinhauser. It’s not a true brotherhood growing up without competition, especially when it comes to sports. The saying goes that the older brother always wins, and that’s exactly how it went for Jordan’s coach Chris Francis and his older brother Timothy “Hamma” Francis […]
Ryan Guerero has been chasing baseballs at Blair Field for almost his entire life. As a Littler Leaguer, he would run around the outskirts of the grandstand collecting the balls that went out of play. “I have a basket full of over 100 foul balls,” Guerero said. “I always had fun hanging out with friends […]
