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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Today’s Long Beach CIF-SS Playoff Schedule

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Wednesday, February 12 It’s maybe the biggest Long Beach playoff game of the year, with 13 teams all in action this evening. For girls’ soccer and boys’ basketball it’s the first round while Wilson girls’ water polo continues in the Open Division and the Poly girls host a quarterfinal. Girls’ Water Polo Open Division: Wilson […]

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Millikan’s Lorene Morgan Gets 600th Win

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In her 33 seasons coaching the Millikan girls’ basketball team, Lorene Morgan has had many more memorable wins than Friday evening’s 70-13 victory over Compton. Morgan won the school’s only CIF-SS girls’ basketball championship, in 2014, and several other tournament and league crowns. Friday’s game, in a reduced-capacity gym due to COVID-19 restrictions, did not […]

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PHOTOS: St. Anthony vs. Crespi, Football

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The562’s coverage of football in 2024-25 is sponsored by The Terry Donahue Memorial California Showcase. The562’s coverage of St. Anthony athletics is sponsored by Jane & B.I. Mais, Class of 1949.