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.
While girls’ beach volleyball continues to take off as a successful CIF and NCAA sport, some Long Beach boys’ volleyball coaches have wondered, ‘what about us?’ “I asked right away when girls’ beach volleyball became a thing, ‘boys too?’” said Millikan boys’ volleyball coach Matthew Johnson. “They said just girls’ for now since it’s already […]
Last week was the 63rd annual Long Beach Century Club Sports Night banquet, one of the biggest events on the local sports calendar each and every year. As usual, the club gave away more than $50,000 in scholarships, recognized a pair of Athletes of the Year, inducted four new Hall of Famers, and took time […]