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 CIF-SS is dropping the 2026 playoff brackets for flag football on Friday, Oct. 16 at 2 p.m. We’ll bring you updates on who the Moore League and Hub City League teams will be playing next week in the first round. CLICK HERE if you can’t see the updates–please note that Twitter’s recent API changes […]

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The Long Beach Unified School District held a special Board of Education meeting last week to announce it had selected the district’s 13th superintendent: the historic choice of Dr. Jill Baker. Baker will become just the third superintendent of the LBUSD since 1992, and will replace Chris Steinhauser, who is retiring at the end of […]

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The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial The562’s coverage of Millikan athletics in the 2023-24 school year is sponsored by Curtis Boyer. Long Beach Poly reinforced its Moore League dominance with an 81-13 statement win over visiting Millikan last Friday. Poly’s Brooklyn Taylor led the Jackrabbits in scoring with a game-high 15 points. […]