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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The Wilson water polo team is one of the most dominant dynasties in Long Beach sports history, in years both bizarre and regular. This year the Bruins are going for a 13th consecutive Moore League championship, which would also be their 34th in the last 36 seasons. Head coach Jeff Nesmith played a young team […]

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FEATURE: Millikan Alum Spencer Steer Making Long Beach Proud With Cincinnati Reds

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Photos courtesy Kate Woolson/Cincinnati Reds From the sun-soaked shores of Long Beach to the banks of the Ohio River, Millikan High alum Spencer Steer is living his dream on the baseball diamond. In the midst of his fourth big league season with the Cincinnati Reds, Steer has come a long way from the early days […]

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Fifty-Plus Long Beach Athletes Qualify For CIF-SS Track Finals

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More than fifty athletes from the Moore League and St. Anthony qualified for the CIF Southern Section Track and Field Finals during Saturday’s prelims. A total of 52 entrants qualified in Division 1 and 4, split across two locations. In Division 1 at Trabuco Hills, Long Beach Poly qualified 20 athletes, Wilson qualified 12, Millikan […]