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.
“When the football team is doing well, the city is doing even better.” Those were the words of former Compton football star and NFL defensive lineman Datone Jones said Saturday night after Compton’s loss in the CIF Southern Section Division 12 championship game. Although the players were disappointed after their loss to end a historic […]
The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial The Long Beach Poly boys’ basketball team ended up on the wrong end of someone else’s story on Tuesday night in the first round of the CIF State Division II basketball playoffs. Hosting an underdog Bakersfield Christian team, the Jackrabbits couldn’t overcome the scrappy […]
We had an action-packed week of football with Wilson and Compton moving to 2-0. We’ve got another slate of big games this week. All start times 7 p.m. unless noted. Friday, September 5 Poly vs TustinWilson vs Sunny HillsCompton vs ParamountJordan at La CanadaMillikan at DowneyCabrillo at BanningLakewood at EdisonSt. Anthony at Torrance Saturday, September […]
