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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There are championship games and playoff runs on the top 10 moments of the year list, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a single bigger game than the Long Beach Poly and Millikan football matchup on October 11. Millikan went on to win in come-behind fashion, snapping a 15-year 81-game Long Beach Poly Moore League […]