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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Basketball Long Beach Poly Millikan

Boys’ Basketball: Long Beach Poly Wins First-Place Clash With Millikan

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It was a battle of the two best teams in the Moore League, a pair of 5-0 boys’ basketball squads, as well as a meeting of the league’s two top scorers in Long Beach Poly’s Peyton Watson and Millikan’s Rob Diaz. In the end, it was Poly’s complete team effort and late-game execution that provided […]

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Basketball COVID-19 Long Beach State Podcast

PODCAST: Long Beach State Men’s Basketball Hits Pause After Positive COVID-19 Test

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We talk to Long Beach State Athletic Director Andy Fee about what happens now that a non student-athlete within the men’s basketball program tested positive for COVID-19 and has shown symptoms. The Beach will have to forfeit games and shut down practice for at least the next two weeks. S4E65 – A Pause For Men’s […]

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Basketball Wilson

PREVIEW: Wilson Girls Hit Road For Semifinals

Mike Guardabascio

STORY BY MATT SIMON After cruising through the first three rounds of the CIF-SS Division 3A playoffs, coach Long Beach Wilson coach Erin Carey feels the Bruins still have more to prove as they head to West Covina to take on the Bulldogs in the semifinals. This season has been a phenomenal turnaround after the […]