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.
The562’s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2025-26 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl. After a thrilling five-set loss to No. 3 Hawai’i (19-3, 2-0) in Friday’s Big West opener, Saturday served as a reality check for No. 2 Long Beach State (14-4, 0-2). The Beach had an opportunity to respond in the […]
There haven’t been many games this season where the Long Beach State Dirtbags have put it all together, but they certainly did on Saturday in the second game of the doubleheader against No. 25 UC Santa Barbara at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field. LBSU (12-10, 10-9) got contributions from nearly everyone in a 5-4 win […]