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.
There was no confetti or celebratory pictures when the Long Beach Poly girls’ basketball team finished its regular season last week with an impressive road win over Lakewood, 60-37. That completed another gauntlet week for the Jackrabbits that saw them beat Cabrillo (77-25), Lakewood again (73-37), Redondo Union (46-44), and Millikan (58-40). The Jackrabbits didn’t […]
Long Beach Poly’s girls’ volleyball team knew it needed everything to go right in order to pull off a huge upset of CIF-SS Division 1 No. 1-ranked Mater Dei on Wednesday evening. The Jackrabbits knew they needed a great playoff atmosphere on their home court so they packed the stands, opening the bleachers on both […]