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.
The Long Beach State Dirtbags (15-21, 3-3) edged Cal State Northridge 3-2 on the road Sunday to win the Big West Conference series. Junior Clayton Andrews drove in the go-ahead run with two outs in the seventh inning, and then made a great throw home in the ninth inning to complete a game-ending double play. […]
The Long Beach State softball team has gone toe-to-toe with the best teams in the country this season, and last week was no different at their own Louisville Slugger Invitational hosted at the LBSU Softball Complex. No. 21 LBSU (19-7) won three of five games, and narrowly lost to No. 3 UCLA on Sunday 6-5 […]