JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
The562’s coverage of football in 2024-25 is sponsored by The Terry Donahue Memorial California Showcase. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial. Long Beach Poly alum Marcedes Lewis made history a few weeks ago when he played in his 272nd NFL game. WHen Lewis took the field with the Chicago Bears […]
The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. Lakewood’s historic season hit a bump on Saturday in the CIF-SS Division 4A championship, as Louisville battled back from an eight point deficit in the third quarter to win it 64-45 over the Lancers. Coming into the season Lakewood hadn’t made it past […]
Six teams from Long Beach learned their postseason draws on Saturday afternoon as the CIF-Southern Section released their playoff brackets for boys’ basketball. five teams from the Moore League (Long Beach Poly, Millikan, Lakewood, Cabrillo, and Jordan) along with defending CIF champion St. Anthony are all in the playoffs, with the first round of games […]
