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.
Last season was one of the busiest ever for Long Beach baseball players in the MLB, and this season already has a wide range of news and notes from the local boys in The Show. Troy Tulowitzki ended his first spring training with the New York Yankees on a high note earlier this week. The […]
Five Long Beach high school baseball teams are starting the CIF Southern Section playoffs this week, and two of them are already preparing for wild card games on Tuesday. Long Beach Poly (19-8-1, 10-2) won its first Moore League title since 2012, and just their second since 1986. The Jackrabbits finished the regular season unranked […]
Last week’s track and field dual meet between Long Beach Poly and Wilson felt like stepping back in time. There were near-biblical winds, which had destroyed Poly’s pole vault and high jump standards, and the races were being hand-timed. With the Jackrabbits and Bruins two of the very best programs in California, there was statewide […]
