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.
There are about 2,700 international students enrolled at Long Beach State, studying a variety of subjects. Two of them, Bjarne Huus and Simon Anderson, are trying to help the school’s men’s volleyball team win a national championship this week. Huus and Anderson are not your typical “fish out of water” stories. Both have thrived since […]
The talent-loaded Long Beach Poly girls’ volleyball team had a shaky start to its Moore League schedule this year, but finished on a dominant tear, sweeping through the second half of league play. That campaign ended Thursday afternoon with a dominant sweep of rival Lakewood on Poly’s home floor, as the Jackrabbits won the Moore […]
No one who voted on the 2018 Big West Baseball Pitcher Of The Year award tried to get a hit off of Clayton Andrews. I think that needs to change. Andrews was one of the best two-way players in the country for the Long Beach State Dirtbags. The junior southpaw led the Big West with […]