Mike Guardabascio
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.
http://The562.org

Related Articles

10042018 LBCC Football
Football Long Beach City College

The Hole: Grief, Football, And Trophies At LBCC

Mike Guardabascio

Photo courtesy John Fajardo, LBCC All fabric is made in essentially the same way: hundreds of individual threads woven together to make something strong, something whole. A football jersey is made that way. A community is made that way too, or a football team: e pluribus unum. Out of many, one. When a hole is […]

DSC 37061 1024x683
Avalon Cabrillo Compton Jordan Lakewood Long Beach Poly Millikan St. Anthony Wilson

New State Guidelines Open Path For Football, Baseball, Soccer, Other Sports

Mike Guardabascio

Athletes, coaches, and families hoping for a return of football and many other high school sports got a huge boost on Friday with the release of new youth sports guidelines from the California Department of Public Health. In keeping with recent decisions by the state to remove “tier” considerations for the re-opening elementary schools in […]

DSC 0282a
Basketball Compton Long Beach Poly

Boys’ Basketball: Long Beach Poly Tops Compton In Thriller

Mike Guardabascio

It was a battle of the Moore League’s two best teams, and in the end, great coaching and free throw shooting boosted Long Beach Poly to a 45-44 win over Compton. The win puts Poly (16-4, 8-0) three games clear of the rest of the Moore League, a commanding lead. CLICK HERE for our photo […]