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.
The562’s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2024-25 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl. The Hawaii men’s volleyball team has the best home court advantage in the NCAA, and the Rainbow Warriors flexed their home crowd muscle on Saturday night in the Big West Championship against top-ranked Long Beach State. The Beach battled […]