An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards 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 basketball fans got some great news last week, as Poly senior Justin Rene announced his commitment to Long Beach State. The Jackrabbits senior was the Moore League Player of the Year, and becomes the second Poly senior to commit collegiately in the last few weeks, as Giordan Williams recently announced his commitment to […]
Here’s a look at today’s CIF-SS playoff schedule for Long Beach teams, with girls’ basketball, girls’ soccer, and girls’ water polo starting; Friday will see the boys basketball and soccer games in the second round while the teams advancing today will look to play in the second round Saturday.. Thursday, February 8 Girls’ Basketball Division […]