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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With city bragging rights on the line, Keller Middle School walked away with a 4-1 victory over Stanford Middle school on Tuesday afternoon to claim the LBUSD boys’ middle school division 1 soccer title at Long Beach City College. “We know this team is so powerful,” Keller coach Ken Weber said. “But a lot of […]
It was the fifth Friday of this strange COVID-19 spring football season, and both Compton and Lakewood were looking for their first win. After a back-and-forth game filled with lots of emotion, it was Compton that came out with that all-important milestone, and they celebrated it with an ice bath for longtime coach Calvin Bryant, […]
