Mike Guardabascio
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.
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The562’s cross country and track & field coverage is sponsored by an anonymous donation, in appreciation of Coach Ron Allice. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. Momentum is everything for a high school sports program, and the Wilson girls’ track and field team has plenty of it […]

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The562.org’s Athletes of the Week

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The562’s Athletes of the Week is sponsored by the Long Beach Century Club. Congratulations to our Athletes of the Week and thanks to the Long Beach Century Club and Naples Rib Company for their support. HIGH SCHOOL Taylor Johnson, Long Beach Poly Track Long Beach Poly sophomore Taylor Johnson had a big weekend at the […]

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Long Beach Athletes Prepare For CIF-SS Track & Field Prelims

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The562’s coverage of track and field is sponsored by Bryson Financial  The city of Long Beach has an eye-popping 102 entrants into Saturday’s CIF Southern Section prelims, nearly all of them competing in Trabuco Hills at the Division 1 prelims, as well as St. Anthony competing in Division 4. There are team championship contenders at […]