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.
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The562’s coverage of football in 2024-25 is sponsored by The Terry Donahue Memorial California Showcase. It ain’t about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. Millikan took a tough blow to the chin last week in their humbling season opener loss to Newbury Park, but they refused […]

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