Mike Guardabascio
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.
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This could be the year that Compton baseball snaps its 62-game Moore League losing streak. Compton hasn’t won a league game since 2013, but second-year coach Lorenzo Reddick isn’t rushing results, and he’s starting multiple underclassman this season. “We’ve got some numbers this year,” Reddick said. “But I’m still trying to get these guys to […]

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CIF Boys’ Soccer: Millikan Can’t Find Equalizer In Tough 2-1 Loss To El Dorado

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The562’s high school soccer coverage for the 2025-26 season is sponsored by Long Beach Poly soccer alum Kennedy Justin. The562’s coverage of Millikan Athletics for the 2025-26 school year is sponsored by Brian Ramsey and TLD Law. Millikan senior Ivan Cevantes Vega put it simply after the Rams lost a tough 2-1 game to El […]

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Football: Long Beach Poly Can’t Complete Comeback at Lincoln

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Long Beach Poly is not the home of moral victories. Jackrabbit fans are a notoriously dissatisfied bunch, so there’s no doubt that most of them will look at Friday night’s loss on the road at San Diego Lincoln and simply remark that Poly has now started the season 0-2 following a 36-20 defeat at the […]