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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The CIF Southern Section released its playoff brackets for girls’ volleyball last weekend, with four Long Beach teams earning a berth into this year’s postseason. Long Beach Poly are the reigning CIF-SS Division 3 champions but moved up a division this year and will try to grab another ring alongside Wilson, Millikan and Lakewood; all […]

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Every week we check in with the 12 Long Beach alums currently in the NFL. Long Beach Poly As usual, it was an eventful week for Poly alums. JuJu Smith-Schuster’s Steelers fell to 0-3 for the first time in the Mike Tomlin era, but Smith-Schuster’s 76-yard touchdown was a rare highlight for the injury-bitten Steelers. […]