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.
The Long Beach State men’s volleyball team is off to a perfect 6-0 start this season and still have yet to lose a set. On Saturday they proved emphatically that they deserve their unanimous No. 1 ranking with a sweep of UCLA on the road at Pauley Pavilion, a rematch of last year’s national championship. […]