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.
If you wanted to see championship basketball in 2024, St. Anthony was the place to be. The Saints’ girls’ and boys’ basketball programs simultaneously conducted their own historic playoff runs that ended in a double-header of championship wins at Azusa Pacific University on February 23, 2024. The pair’s CIF-SS championship wins both came in Division […]
The562’s soccer coverage for the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Beach Futbol Club. The 2022-23 season has just started and here’s how the Long Beach boys’ soccer teams stand after a month.
The Millikan boys’ soccer team didn’t earn a corner kick on Friday afternoon against visiting Cabrillo until the final fifteen minutes of regulation. The Rams ended up earning five corner kicks in that span, and one of them gave the home team a point. Cabrillo (13-1-3, 3-1-2) took the lead in the 10th minute, and […]
