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.
The562’s coverage of Millikan athletics in the 2023-24 school year is sponsored by Curtis Boyer. Serious sports injuries can change lives, but they’re typically localized. A broken bone can be cast and isolated while healing. Millikan goalkeeper Diego Ramirez’ serious sports injury wasn’t so simple. First, he had to stand up without falling. “I had to […]
For the first time since 2012 and just the second time since 1986, Long Beach Poly’s baseball team will be champions of the Moore League. The Jackrabbits are one game clear of everyone else in the league with just one game to play, clinching at least a share of the league championship thanks to a […]
With the new playoff format last year, the number question we got at every practice we went to was about playoff divisions. With that in mind we’re going to track where teams stand each week in the CalPreps rankings, which are used to determine the CIF Southern Section’s playoff divisions at the end of the […]
