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 Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. It’s not about how you get knocked down, it’s about how you get back up. On Tuesday, Lakewood boys’ soccer bounced back up from Saturday’s heartbreaking penalty kicks loss in the CIF Southern Section Division 4 championship game to beat Mission Bay 2-0 […]
It wasn’t easy but after years of keeping their program together while their new campus was being built – the Compton High football program is finally home. “That was the tough part,” Compton coach Calvin Bryant said of the campus being relocated to nearby Roosevelt Middle School during the construction of their new campus. “When […]
