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.
The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. It was a Moore League girls’ lacrosse nail biter on Monday when Compton visited Lakewood and left with a 9-5 victory. It’s also a marquee victory for Compton in only its second year of having a girls’ lacrosse program. “I’m really proud of […]
The562’s coverage of football in 2023-24 is sponsored in part by the MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center Foundation and Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital Foundation. The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. If you ask anyone close to the Lakewood football program about the 2022 playoff run they will end […]
