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 cross country and track & field coverage is sponsored by Joe Carlson & Debbie Hughes. It’s track season in Long Beach! The city once again returns the reigning CIF State girls champion in Wilson along with the CIF champion Long Beach Poly boys team, but there are plenty of new athletes ready to make […]
There were a lot of positives to take from Cabrillo’s first home football game since 2019, but unfortunately for the Jaguars the final score wasn’t one of those things as visiting Jefferson led wire-to-wire in a 50-20 victory. Cabrillo had a handful of standout individual performances and the Jaguars showed impressive cohesiveness on and off […]
Ray Porter is not one to celebrate himself. A 1973 graduate of Long Beach Poly, he’s spent the last 34 years working as a locker room attendant and campus security officer at his alma mater. In that time, the people who’ve worked with him have never heard him brag about himself or take credit for […]
