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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Football: Frustrated Long Beach Poly Sat Idle With No Opponent

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It was a frustrating week for the top football team in the city. The Long Beach Poly football team (3-0, 2-0) sat idle on Friday after Jordan canceled due to a lack of available healthy players. The empty week wasn’t for a lack of trying–the Jackrabbits said they made contact with dozens of schools who […]

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From Long Beach To Harvard, Aaron Shampklin Leads The Ivy League

Mike Guardabascio

Photo by Thomas Cordova In the pre-dawn hours of a winter day in 2016, a truck driver put on his jacket and prepared to leave for work. His son, a senior in high school, was already in the living room studying. In the front of their mobile home, the two nodded at each other, a […]

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Long Beach City College Weekly Update

JJ Fiddler

After cruising though the first round of the California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) Southern California Regional Playoffs, the Long Beach City College beach volleyball team will be the No. 1 seed in the CCCAA Beach Volleyball State Championships that start today, Thursday, at West Valley College. The Vikings finished second in the state playoffs […]