JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
From a distance it would have looked like any other group of friends on the beach, working out together, tossing a football around while relaxing afterwards. Except that when closer proximity lifted the veil of fog that blanketed the Long Beach peninsula that particular Saturday morning, it was obvious that this group of friends was […]
The562’s coverage of Millikan athletics in the 2023-24 school year is sponsored by Curtis Boyer. Senior Audrey Stewart provided three goals and three assists for Millikan in a 14-0 Moore League girls’ soccer win over Compton earlier this week. The Rams 6-0-1 (4-0) host Long Beach Poly tonight at 6:30 p.m. PHOTOS COURTESY JESSE OAKES
Last week the Long Beach Unified School District’s Board of Education passed a resolution regarding the prevention of gun violence. Similar to previous resolutions the board has passed (such as last year’s resolution to protect migrant students) the Board’s gun violence resolution was a show of support for state and national bodies the board hopes […]