Mike Guardabascio
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.
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Long Beach State’s backcourt of Joel Murray and Colin Slater put on an impressive display on Monday night at Pauley Pavilion, but it wasn’t enough for the Beach to keep up with No. 2 UCLA. The Bruins (3-0) outscored the Beach (1-1) 52-34 in the second half to pull away for a 100-79 victory. Murray […]

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PREVIEWS: Long Beach Football Week 8

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We’ve got previews for all of the games in the eighth week of Long Beach high school football. Come back tonight for LIVE score updates. Long Beach Poly vs. Compton at Veterans Memorial Stadium Wilson vs. Lakewood Jordan vs. Cabrillo St. Anthony vs. La Salle Avalon vs. ACES (Saturday) BYE WEEK: Millikan, LBCC COLUMN: High […]

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Boys’ Soccer: Wilson Holds On To Beat Lakewood

JJ Fiddler

The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009 The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013 It wasn’t pretty on Monday night at Wilson where the Bruins hosted Lakewood in a Moore League boys’ soccer clash that got doused with a surprising rain storm. However, […]