The562’s coverage of football in 2024-25 is sponsored by The Terry Donahue Memorial California Showcase. This month, there will be a handful of very different first meetings for Long Beach high school football teams and their new coaches. The message was a clear one on Monday in the Jordan Auditorium as new Panthers coach Alfred Rowe […]
The CIF Southern Section track and field championships aren’t being held in Long Beach this weekend, but they’re going to have a distinctly LBC feel—that’s because six local schools placed 33 entries in the finals. The finals will be at El Camino College beginning at 11 a.m. with running events beginning at 1 p.m. Long […]
Long Beach Poly football coach Stephen Barbee is familiar with Compton’s double-wing offense, which relies on punishing run after punishing run, with some misdirection thrown in. Barbee dialed up the right defense for his Jackrabbits, who platooned several defensive lineman and employed eight different D-Line combinations to shut down the Compton attack, which was limited […]
