JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
High School Football: Long Beach Poly vs. Millikan Long Beach Poly finished off an unbeaten season with a big win on Senior Night against Millikan. For more coverage of all Long Beach sports, head to www.The562.org. We are a non-profit, community-funded media outlet in the City of Long Beach, covering primarily sports and education. Support […]
Ricky Tiedemann should be on a bus somewhere. In a normal year, he would be–toiling away somewhere in the minor leagues, in some rookie program. This, of course, is not a normal year. Tiedemann was ranked in the top 90 on MLB.com’s prospects ahead of this year’s draft, but was not selected in the abbreviated […]
The562’s coverage of football in 2024-25 is sponsored by The Terry Donahue Memorial California Showcase. Here’s where things stand after the second week of the high school football league season in Long Beach.
