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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The CIF Southern Section has ruled five Long Beach Poly football transfers ineligible, extending a wave of transfer denials that has already impacted Millikan and Compton this season. With this decision, Poly becomes the third Moore League school facing sanctions, and the affected athletes are barred from competing in California high school sports for the […]