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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The562’s coverage of cross country and track and field is sponsored by Bryson Financial. There was no lightning on Signal Hill on Thursday afternoon, but there were still some lightning-fast times. Two days after inclement weather canceled the Moore League girls’ varsity race at Signal Hill’s Discovery Well Park, the city’s fastest girls gathered at the […]