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 high school volleyball in 2025 is brought to you by the MLP’s Bay Area Breakers. The playoff brackets for the 2025 CIF-SS beach volleyball playoffs were released on Thursday, with four playoff teams from Long Beach learning their postseason draws. Division 2 The Moore League champions from Wilson got a great draw […]
Is Long Beach Poly back to its former glory? Can Millikan challenge the Jackrabbits and make a CIF playoff run? Will new but familiar coaches at Wilson and Lakewood be perfect fits? We answer those questions and more this week on the show as we discuss everything about Long Beach high school football as the […]
One incredible kick of the ball was all Los Alamitos needed to end Millikan’s season in the second round of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 girls’ soccer playoffs on Wednesday. The wonder strike off the foot of Marisa Salazar in the 59th minute proved to be the difference in a hotly contested match that […]
