Mike Guardabascio
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.
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Girls’ Basketball: Long Beach Poly Keeps Streak Alive With Big Win Over Lakewood

Tyler Hendrickson

The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial. The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. Three minutes into Friday’s Moore League girls’ basketball title showdown, Long Beach Poly head coach Carl Buggs implored his team to calm down. Both teams had gotten off to a shaky start, and […]

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Long Beach Football Schedule Week Three

Mike Guardabascio

All games Friday at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted Wilson @ Long Beach Poly (at Cabrillo) Lakewood @ Jordan St. Anthony vs. Salesian (Clark Field) Compton @ Millikan (Saturday, 12 p.m.)

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LBCC’s Conference Shuts Down Football, Other Fall Sports

Mike Guardabascio

It’s been a dark week for more than 200 local athletes at Long Beach City College, who learned on Tuesday that the presidents of the 12 South Coast Conference Colleges voted to shut down fall sports for the 2020-21 season. The original plan had been for football, men’s and women’s basketball, women’s volleyball, soccer, water […]