When I heard that Long Beach legend Willie Brown had passed away a few weeks ago, I was on a family vacation in Mammoth. Willie was one of Long Beach’s true legends, and I was sad to hear that he’d left us; I spent most of the rest of the day thinking about him and […]
Our All-City Athletes of the Year award has been around for nine years, just a fraction of the 120+ year history of amazing youth athletes in Long Beach. But over the last decade we’ve gotten a good look at the top flight of the city’s talent pool: previous recipients of this award have been NFL […]
The562’s standings, schedule, and rankings stories are sponsored by International City Plumbers. We’re entering the third year of the new CIF-SS playoff format, and Long Beach teams made five CIF-SS championship appearances over the last two years under the competitive equity system. Clearly it’s been a big benefit to local schools with several teams making […]
