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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Baseball Long Beach State

Dirtbags Announce Return of Pitching Coach Jon Strauss For 2026 Season

Tyler Hendrickson

The562’s coverage of Dirtbags Baseball is sponsored by P2S, Inc. Visit p2sinc.com to learn more. It was Long Beach State or nothing for Jon Strauss.  After serving as the pitching coach for CSUN last season, Strauss was considering calling it a career after more than two decades as a college baseball coach. There was perhaps only one […]

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Basketball Millikan

Boys’ Basketball Preview: Millikan Rams

Mike Guardabascio

Millikan coach Curtis Boyer is technically entering his second season as the Rams’ coach, after being hired mid-pandemic in December of 2020 and then coaching the abbreviated Spring season. But because of the hasty preparation for last year and a frustrating season for Millikan that saw the Rams finish in fifth place at 3-9, Boyer said […]

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Compton Football Lakewood

Football: Lakewood Leads Compton, Game Postponed

JJ Fiddler

The Moore League clash between Compton and Lakewood was about as messy as the weather on Friday night. The visiting Lancers took a 13-7 lead into halftime, and the game was postponed in the third quarter due to lightning. The two teams will resume the contest tonight at 7:30 p.m. Lakewood (2-6, 1-2) took a […]