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.
Long Beach Poly football transfer Madden Iamaleava has been ruled ineligible with the Jackrabbits by the CIF Southern Section, according to the CIF-SS website. In a decision dated Friday but posted to the CIF-SS website Monday, Iamaleava’s status is listed as “denied” with the note “Denied athletic eligibility in all sports at Poly/Long Beach or […]
Compton coach Calvin Bryant cut his teeth running the double-wing with the Tarbabes in the mid-2000s, and he began his second stint at the school in 2015 doing the same. But for much of the first half of Compton’s 41-0 season-opening win over Compton Centennial on Friday, the Tarbabes operated out of the shotgun. And […]
The562’s coverage of girls’ flag football in 2023-24 is sponsored by the Los Angeles Chargers. Here are the All-Moore League honorees for the inaugural flag football season, as voted on by the league’s head coaches.
