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.
The Jordan Panthers finished in the bottom half of the Moore League last year and missed the playoffs just two seasons after winning a CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoff game. Panthers captain Charlie Ulloa will lead the way for this new, hungry squad. Jordan opened the season with a 4-2 over Schurr last week, […]
On a cloudless Thursday afternoon in Huntington Beach, Ricky Tiedemann found himself somewhere he never thought he’d be. The 6-foot-4 left-hander has thrown from hundreds of pitching mounds in his baseball career, but just a year prior it would’ve been difficult to imagine him standing on this one. Tiedemann was warming up for his first […]
