An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 18 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous state and national honors 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.
Mike Guardabascio 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. Give the Long Beach Poly football team some bonus points for honesty. After their grudge match win over rival Serra, nobody on the Jackrabbits was pretending that it was a […]
The562’s coverage of high school soccer is sponsored by Long Beach FC. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial. A pair of wins over Compton this week was all Long Beach Poly girls’ soccer needed to finish off its Moore League championship season. It is the first league title for the Jackrabbits in […]
The Cabrillo Jaguars hit the road tonight for a winnable game at John Glenn High School in Norwalk. This is their first meeting since they were in the Suburban League together in 2002. Glenn (1-1) allowed 78 points in a loss last week after beating Savanna 54-20 in the season opener. The Eagles have a […]