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.
The562’s coverage of Cabrillo Athletics is sponsored by the Cohn Family. Separated by nearly 7,000 miles and 19 hours on the clock, there’s not much that unites the Westside of Long Beach and the North Island of New Zealand. But on a picture-perfect Monday afternoon in Long Beach, all it took was a friendly game […]