An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards 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.
With the high school baseball season starting two weeks earlier this year due to a calendar shift by the CIF State office, local players have had to trade their bats for umbrellas. Every coach in the city has talked about the difficulty of warming up for the season while the temperatures are in the 40s, […]
The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial Long Beach Poly boys’ basketball coach Shelton Diggs burst into the locker room following the Jackrabbits’ dramatic win over Corona del Mar in the CIF Southern Section Division 2A semifinals. Diggs was fired up about his team’s win, which came in the last minute, […]