Mike Guardabascio
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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Long Beach Athletes Will Pack CIF-SS Track Finals

Mike Guardabascio

The CIF Southern Section track and field championships aren’t being held in Long Beach this weekend, but they’re going to have a distinctly LBC feel—that’s because six local schools placed 33 entries in the finals. The finals will be at El Camino College beginning at 11 a.m. with running events beginning at 1 p.m. Long […]
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Top Moments #6: Wilson Girls’ Track & Field Makes History

Mike Guardabascio

It was a great year for Wilson girls’ runners, as both the Bruins girls’ cross country team and the girls’ track and field team won Moore League championships this year. Per Moore League records it was the cross country team’s first league title since 2004 and the track team’s first league title since 2008. Both […]
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COLUMN: Long Beach Needs To Honor Norford, Allice

Mike Guardabascio

Photo by Stephen Carr Last month’s announcement that the new Long Beach Main Library would be named in honor of Billie Jean King got me thinking: what else out there is in need of a name? Or, to look at it from a better angle, who else out there is deserving of a major honor? […]