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.
Girls’ volleyball has quickly become one of the top sports in the Long Beach high school sports scene, and last year was a recent highwater mark for the local squads. Long Beach Poly won the CIF Southern Section Division 3 championship and made a deep state run, while Wilson won a first-round playoff match in […]
Long Beach State track and field is at the Steve Scott Invitational this weekend before the Big West Championship next week, and Crystal Rodriguez set a top-10 mark in the women’s hammer on Friday. Rodriguez had a 54.13m toss that ranks seventh in school history. Elsewhere in the field, Lauren Bartsch placed fourth, Lea Fong […]