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.
The562’s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2025-26 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl. The opening weekend of Big West Conference play went about as well as you could hope for Long Beach State. A night after sweeping UC Irvine on the road, the Beach (9-4, 2-0) returned to Walter Pyramid to host Cal […]