An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards 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.
As 2019 dawns, we had fun reflecting on some of our favorite stories from the 2018. But we’re also drawing up our calendar for 2019 and 10 stories we’re most excited for. Winter Moore League Girls’ Water Polo Long Beach girls’ water polo is at a crossroads after the top two teams, Wilson and Poly, […]
Both Millikan and Cabrillo won Moore League games today while the game at Jordan High was postponed. Millikan 6, Compton 0 The Rams (14-0-3, 1-0-1) stayed undefeated by getting three goals from Jesus Moreno and the 11th shutout of the season for goalkeeper Matthew Sutfin. This was the last game played on the natural turf […]
The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Poly alum Jayon Brown and PlayFair Sports Management. It was a difficult couple of weeks to be Stephen Barbee. Sure, the fifth-year Long Beach Poly football coach’s team was winning, picking up big victories over Serra and Mission Viejo. And […]
