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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Long Beach Track & Field Stars Shine at Moore League Finals

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The562’s cross country and track & field coverage is sponsored by an anonymous donation, in appreciation of Coach Ron Allice. It was cold, cloudy and windy at Long Beach Poly for this year’s Moore League track and field finals but the city’s Spring stars still shone brightly with multiple CIF-SS qualifiers in almost every event. […]

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STORY: Long Beach Shines At 2026 Moore League Track & Field Finals

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The562’s cross country and track & field coverage is sponsored by Joe Carlson & Debbie Hughes. It was a thrilling day at Long Beach Poly as Long Beach’s best converged at 1600 Atlantic for the Moore League track and field Finals on Thursday.  Long Beach Poly and Wilson put on a show winning 28 out […]

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Century Club Honors Middle School Athletes With All-City Honors

Tyler Hendrickson

Despite school closures during the spring semester, the Long Beach Century Club was still able to honor the city’s middle school athletes and distribute All-City plaques to the winning schools. This year’s All-Sports Award winners, given to the best overall middle school sports programs in the city, were Hughes in Division I and co-champions Newcomb […]