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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Long Beach Poly football transfer Madden Iamaleava has been ruled ineligible with the Jackrabbits by the CIF Southern Section, according to the CIF-SS website. In a decision dated Friday but posted to the CIF-SS website Monday, Iamaleava’s status is listed as “denied” with the note “Denied athletic eligibility in all sports at Poly/Long Beach or […]

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PHOTOS: Long Beach Poly Flag Football Senior Night vs. Cabrillo, Bonus Student Gallery

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The562’s coverage of girls’ flag football is sponsored by the Los Angeles Chargers. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. We’ve got a great photo gallery of Long Beach Poly’s flag football win over Cabrillo on Senior Night, […]

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Long Beach Poly Girls’ Swim Wins Historic Moore League Title

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Long Beach Poly and Wilson weren’t separated by much throughout the Moore League girls’ swimming finals at Cabrillo High on Thursday evening, and the 2019 league title ended up coming down to the final race of the meet. The Jackrabbit quartet of junior Josie Liebzeit, sophomore Georgia Buffington, sophomore Allison Knapp and freshman Trinity Salcedo […]