Mike Guardabascio
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.
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The CIF Southern Section released its playoff brackets for girls’ volleyball last weekend, with four Long Beach teams earning a berth into this year’s postseason. Long Beach Poly are the reigning CIF-SS Division 3 champions but moved up a division this year and will try to grab another ring alongside Wilson, Millikan and Lakewood; all […]

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Heading into Friday night’s non-league contest against San Pedro, Lakewood coach Justin Utupo said his team needed to take care of the football and get off to a fast start offensively against one of the favorites for the CIF Los Angeles City Section title. The Lancers hit one of those marks on their opening drive […]