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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Girls’ Basketball: Long Beach Poly Survives Overtime With Millikan

Mike Guardabascio

The Long Beach Poly girls’ basketball team hasn’t lost a Moore League contest in 14 years, when Millikan defeated them in the Ron Palmer Pavilion in a thriller. History almost repeated itself on Saturday morning in the RPP, as a game Rams squad pushed the Jackrabbits to the limit on their home court. Thanks to […]

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Long Beach High School Football CalPreps Rankings, Week Three

Mike Guardabascio

With the new playoff format last year, the number question we got at every practice we went to was about playoff divisions. With that in mind we’re going to track where teams stand each week in the CalPreps rankings, which are used to determine the CIF Southern Section’s playoff divisions at the end of the […]

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PREVIEW: Long Beach Poly at Lakewood, Football

Mike Guardabascio

This week, all of The562’s coverage is sponsored by Long Beach Gives. Visit LongBeachGives.org to find your cause and support local nonprofits! Donations will be accepted through Sept. 21. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial. The562’s coverage of football in 2023-24 is sponsored in part by the MemorialCare Long Beach […]