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.
Congratulations to our Athletes of the Week and thanks to Naples Rib Company for their sponsorship! HIGH SCHOOL Frank Staine, St. Anthony Basketball It’s a new era for St. Anthony basketball as the Saints are competing in Division 1 this year, and senior Frank Staine is trying to help them prove they belong. After a […]
Colorado Springs is a long way away from Long Beach, but the US Olympic & Paralympic Training Center had a distinct local flavor last week. USA Basketball hosted its annual Junior National Team camp with 73 high school-aged athletes from around the country all in competition to impress USA Basketball coaches, hone their craft, and […]
Barry O’Dea was planning his own father’s funeral on a clear early-August evening last year when he heard that Wilson sophomore Camryn Krueger’s mother, Sarah, had died in a sudden accident. O’Dea, who had taken the Wilson girls’ water polo head coaching position in early June, drove straight to the Krueger house in Seal Beach […]
