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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The Wilson girls’ basketball team is ranked No. 1 in Division 3A, and the Bruins certainly looked like the bracket’s team to beat in their first round road contest against Marina. Wilson got contributions from a number of players in an easy 62-19 victory. Wilson was led by 19 points from Ashley Hawkins, 11 from […]

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It was a great New Year’s Day for the Long Beach State men’s and women’s basketball programs. After both persevering through COVID-19-related pauses, both teams pulled out tight Big West wins over CSU Bakersfield. Long Beach State Men 90, CSU Bakersfield 89 (OT) The Long Beach State men’s team (2-2, 1-0) had been shut down […]

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PHOTOS: Long Beach Poly vs. Los Alamitos, CIF Boys’ Basketball

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The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial.