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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Three Long Beach Basketball Teams Make CIF State Tournament

Mike Guardabascio

Three Long Beach basketball teams qualified for the upcoming CIF State basketball tournament, including the newly-minted CIF-SS Division 3A champion Wilson girls’ basketball team. Open Division The Long Beach Poly girls’ basketball team will get a chance to end their season on a more positive note as they earned the No. 7 seed in the […]

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PREVIEW: CIF-SS Cross Country Championships

Tyler Hendrickson

All of The562’s cross-country coverage for the 2021-22 school year is sponsored by Bryson. Visit BrysonFinancial.com to learn more. The CIF-SS Cross Country Championships are set for Saturday morning at Mt. San Antonio College. Long Beach Poly is sending both its girls’ and boys’ squads to compete for a Division 1 title, and Millikan sophomore […]

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All-City Spirit Of Long Beach Award: Activist Athletes

Tyler Hendrickson

As 2020 rapidly became a year for the history books, with a global pandemic eventually sharing the spotlight with civil unrest across the globe, sports was asked to take a back seat this year. Yet even with no games to play, Long Beach’s athletes didn’t fade into the background, but instead came forward in the […]