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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Football Long Beach City College

Football: Mistakes Doom LBCC In Loss To Bakersfield

Mike Guardabascio

The game opened with a broken coverage by LBCC to give up a 70-yard touchdown to Bakersfield on the Renegades’ opening drive, a mistake that unfortunately set the tone for the Vikings’ evening. LBCC wasn’t able to overcome Bakersfield kicker Nathan De Jager in a 22-17 loss. The defeat drops LBCC to 3-4 overall and […]

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Compton Football Long Beach Poly

PREVIEW: Long Beach Poly vs Compton Football

Mike Guardabascio

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 Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial. Long Beach Poly (7-1, 4-0) hosts Compton (3-5, 1-3) Friday night at Veterans Memorial Stadium at 7 p.m. on […]

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Column Football

COLUMN: Mike’s Not-So-Super Super Bowl Sunday

Mike Guardabascio

When you know you’re going to have a kid, you start daydreaming. Most of those daydreams involve how your kid will fit into your life and your story, because before they come into the world, there’s no way to fully understand how hilarious and unrealistic a thought that is. While my wife, Shar, was pregnant […]