Mike Guardabascio
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.
http://The562.org

Related Articles

DSC_0145a
Long Beach Poly Millikan Photos Volleyball

PHOTOS: Millikan vs Long Beach Poly Volleyball

Stephen Dachman

The562’s coverage of Long Beach Volleyball in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Misty May-Treanor and the Dream in Gold Foundation. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Poly alum Jayon Brown and PlayFair Sports Management. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year […]

DSC_0063a
Lakewood Volleyball Wilson

PHOTOS: Lakewood vs. Wilson Volleyball

Mike Guardabascio

We’ve got some great shots of the Lancers’ five-set win from photographer Stephen Dachman.

Collage_Fotor
Badminton Baseball Cabrillo Compton Golf Lakewood Long Beach Poly Millikan Softball St. Anthony Track & Field Volleyball Wilson

Writing The Story of 2020’s Missing League, CIF Championships

Mike Guardabascio & JJ Fiddler

With this week’s scheduled CIF Southern Section championships canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there will officially be a blank line across the record books. Before we close the book on 2019-20, we wanted to take a look at a few of the league and CIF-SS/State championships we expected to be covering this May–just because […]