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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The562’s coverage of high school volleyball in 2023 is brought to you by the MLP’s Bay Area Breakers. Long Beach has a handful of boys’ volleyball teams in the 2024 CIF-SS playoffs, and they each learned their postseason draw on Saturday morning in four different divisions. Here’s who the local teams will be playing and […]

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