JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
The562’s coverage of football in 2024-25 is sponsored by The Terry Donahue Memorial California Showcase. Here’s where things stand after the first week of the high school football season in Long Beach. Subscribe to the562 on GiveButter to make sure we’re around to keep covering Long Beach sports! Don’t let this be the last year for […]
The Long Beach Poly boys’ cross country team is opening up the season ranked No. 3 in the CIF Southern Section’s Division 1 poll, and the Jackrabbits backed up that lofty ranking with a championship performance over the weekend in their first race of the year. Poly was missing three of their top five runners […]
Spring training is in full swing for the 15 Major League Baseball players with ties to Long Beach, but the biggest piece of recent news from the local boys came from the front office of the New York Yankees. Wilson High alum Aaron Hicks signed his all-important second contract with the Yankees earlier this month. […]
