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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Millikan has all but clinched its second consecutive Moore League girls’ soccer championship after beating Lakewood and watching Wilson lose late to Long Beach Poly. Long Beach Poly 3, Wilson 2 Senior Aniah Cutler almost single-handedly pushed Poly past Wilson with a hat trick in a rivalry victory that dashes the Bruins’ Moore League championship […]

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Girls’ Basketball: Long Beach Poly Survives Overtime With Millikan

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The Long Beach Poly girls’ basketball team hasn’t lost a Moore League contest in 14 years, when Millikan defeated them in the Ron Palmer Pavilion in a thriller. History almost repeated itself on Saturday morning in the RPP, as a game Rams squad pushed the Jackrabbits to the limit on their home court. Thanks to […]

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LBCC Inducts Eight Into Hall Of Champions

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Long Beach City College inducted another star-studded class into its Hall of Champions on Friday, enshrining major figures from a number of different sports. The LBCC main gymnasium has long been known as the Hall of Champions, and its lobby includes not only trophies from the state-record 93 state championships the Vikings have claimed, but […]