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.
When Long Beach Poly senior and West Point signee Allanah Cutler was younger, she got the nickname “Biggie,” a pun on the rapper “Biggie Smalls.” She was the second youngest and second smallest of her parents’ five children, but also the most mature. “I was the smallest but also the biggest,” she said. She’s been […]