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.
The562’s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2024-25 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl. The562’s coverage of Long Beach State Basketball is sponsored by CSULB Distinguished Alumnus Nelson Farris. The Long Beach State women’s basketball team took down UC Riverside, 75-69, on a night that saw Savannah Tucker cross 1,000 career points with the Beach. […]
The562’s coverage of football in 2023-24 is sponsored in part by the MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center Foundation and Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital Foundation. The562’s coverage of Millikan athletics in the 2023-24 school year is sponsored by Curtis Boyer. Photos by The562’s student interns, Charli Gonzalez and Monique Thomas.
The Long Beach Poly football team is fresh off a CIF-SS Division 4 championship and has its eyes set higher in 2022. The Jackrabbits have recently finalized their schedule, according to head coach Stephen Barbee. The final piece of the puzzle is an opening-week game on the road at Clovis, the longest trip the team […]