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.
For the past few years, the men’s volleyball world has centered around Long Beach. Alan Knipe’s program at Long Beach State won back-to-back NCAA championships in 2018 and 2019, hosting their most recent national title match inside Walter Pyramid. With the COVID-19 pandemic cutting the 2020 NCAA men’s volleyball season short, Long Beach and the […]
The562’s coverage of football in 2024-25 is sponsored by The Terry Donahue Memorial California Showcase. It’s the fourth week of the high school football season and we’ve got a bunch of great games. All games 7pm unless otherwise noted. Friday, September 20 Long Beach Poly vs Jordan (Veterans Memorial Stadium) Cabrillo vs Millikan Lakewood vs […]
The562’s coverage of Dirtbags Baseball for the 2025 season is sponsored by P2S, Inc. Visit p2sinc.com to learn more. Long Beach State Dirtbags coach TJ Bruce declined a full postgame interview after his team fell to USC 12-2 on Tuesday night on Bohl Diamond at Blair Field, but did say one thing that pretty accurately summed up […]
