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.
Sarah Maher, Imani McDonald and Sarah Pilster (left to right) are true Long Beach soccer players. The homegrown trio all played high school soccer together in the Moore League, and club soccer with Beach FC, before attending Long Beach State and becoming integral pieces of Mauricio Ingrassia’s defense. LBSU (12-5-3) won the Big West Conference championship […]
The Long Beach City College football team suffered its biggest loss of the season on Saturday at Veterans Memorial Stadium where No. 4 Riverside rolled to a 47-0 victory. LBCC (2-2) quarterbacks Drake Peabody and Jonathan Murphy only amassed a combined 180 total passing and rushing yards in the game. Vikings defensive back Jack Genova […]
The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Poly alum Jayon Brown and PlayFair Sports Management. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by JuJu Smith-Schuster and the JuJu Foundation. It could’ve all been so simple, but that’s not how this Long Beach […]
