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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The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. It must’ve been a rousing halftime speech. Wilson trailed Nordhoff by two after the first half of the CIF Southern Section Division 4AA boys’ basketball quarterfinals on Tuesday night in Long Beach. Willem Rutherford scored 22 points for Nordhoff in the […]