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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This Wilson football season has already been one for the history books, and now the Bruins have their sights set on the first CIF Southern Section championship in school history. Wilson (9-1, 5-1) is No. 2 in Division 7 and will host Fullerton on Friday at 7 p.m. “We’ve scored on our first drive in […]