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 Vikings athletics is sponsored in part by Long Beach City College. For a quarter it looked like the Long Beach City College football team was on its way to its first win with first-year coach Marques Cooper. But, with some turnovers and untimely miscues the Vikings lost to Mt. San Jacinto 52-20 […]
Mike Guardabascio The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Poly alum Jayon Brown and PlayFair Sports Management. Give the Long Beach Poly football team some bonus points for honesty. After their grudge match win over rival Serra, nobody on the Jackrabbits was pretending that it was a […]
STORY BY JULIAN LOPEZ Wilson head coach Eric Berg was doing laps in the pool while his team was celebrating. It was yet another Moore League boys swim championship for the Bruins as they finished atop the standings with 478 points and were followed by Poly with 386 at Cabrillo High School on Friday. The […]
