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 soccer coverage for the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Beach Futbol Club. The562’s coverage of Millikan athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Curtis Boyer. It’s apropos that their final game of the season was scoreless, but a historic campaign came to a disappointing end for Millikan girls’ soccer on Wednesday as the […]

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Postseason basketball starts next week, and there’s a handful of Long Beach boys’ hoops teams ready to make a run at a CIF championship. All first-round games are scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. though start times, dates and locations are subject to change.  CLICK HERE to view the brackets on the CIF-SS […]

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JJ Fiddler

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