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.
The562’s coverage of girls’ flag football in 2023-24 is sponsored by the Los Angeles Chargers. Six Moore League high schools brought their girls’ flag football teams to Cabrillo on Tuesday afternoon, making history with the first set of league games ever played in the brand new sport. Squads from Cabrillo, Jordan, Lakewood, Millikan, Poly and Wilson […]
Long Beach soccer fans have gone from famine to feast this month. March started with the hope that local high school teams could return to action, and already this week there’s a pair of first-place showdowns for Moore League boys’ and girls’ soccer. Wilson boys’ are off to a hot start and visit Millikan tonight […]
There wasn’t much separation between Long Beach Poly and Millikan during their Moore League boys’ water polo clash on Wednesday. The score was tied six times, including at the end of regulation, until a trio of goals in overtime lifted the Rams over the visiting Jackrabbits, 11-8. The win sets up a battle for first […]
