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 football coverage for the 2025-26 school year is sponsored by Long Beach Poly alums Wendell “WoWo” Moe, Jr. & Tyson Ruffins. Here’s where things stand in Long Beach as we head into the final week of the regular season! Millikan’s win over Compton pushed them into fourth place in the Moore League, while St. […]
Here are the All-Moore League honorees for the 2024 girls’ lacrosse season, as voted on by the league’s head coaches. Subscribe to the562 on GiveButter to make a recurring donation and keep Long Beach sports coverage free!
Lakewood showed its marked improvement in a Thursday afternoon sweep at Millikan 25-13, 25-19, 25-23. The co-Moore League leading Lancers dropped a set at home to the Rams last month, but got some payback by becoming the first league team to sweep Millikan this season. “When we played them the first time they took the […]
