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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Long Beach’s newest sport is back for another season, as flag football enters year two of full CIF-SS competition. We checked in with every team in the city to preview the 2025 campaign. Click here for our Long Beach Poly preview Click here for our Millikan preview Click here for our Lakewood preview Click here […]
The 2022 NFL season kicks off this weekend and once again Long Beach will have several representatives on NFL rosters. Some veteran stalwarts like Joel Bitonio and Marcedes Lewis are still with the same organizations while other big names were on the move this offseason. Long Beach Poly Perhaps the biggest name in a new […]