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.
It was a dream come true for Wilson senior Brooke Gruneisen a few weeks ago, as the stud girls’ water polo player committed to her dream school, UCLA. “It’s been my dream school since I was a little kid growing up around the sport,” she said. “I just love everything there, the tradition of the […]
Photo by John Napalan/Art O’Neill There’s been a lot of positive momentum around the Millikan boys’ basketball team under new coach Nate Berger, who took over the Rams program last year and led Millikan to a third-place finish in the Moore League. That earned Berger league Coach of the Year honors and, with seven of his […]
Compton second-year coach Sammy Flores knows that his soccer program needs discipline and unity because he also played in the program. “This year we’ve focused on getting everyone on the same page, and sharing the same mentality,” Flores said. “Now, we can do a lot more moving forward. The team is more disciplined, and we […]
