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.
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The 2018 Long Beach State Dirtbags season isn’t over quite yet, but fans witnessed the death rattle at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field over the weekend while the Dirtbags (18-26, 4-8) dropped a Big West Conference series to UC Davis in familiar fashion. The loss moves defending conference champion LBSU into last place. After Zak […]