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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Football: Long Beach Poly Transfers Denied, Banned Two Years

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The CIF Southern Section has ruled five Long Beach Poly football transfers ineligible, extending a wave of transfer denials that has already impacted Millikan and Compton this season. With this decision, Poly becomes the third Moore League school facing sanctions, and the affected athletes are barred from competing in California high school sports for the […]

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Long Beach Poly Alum Jordan Bell Signs With Cavaliers

Mike Guardabascio

Long Beach Poly alum Jordan Bell is back in the NBA after signing a two-year contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday morning, according to the Athletic’s Shams Charania. The deal will take Bell through the end of this season as well as next year with the Cavs.  Bell, who won an NBA title with […]

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Basketball Long Beach Poly

CIF Boys’ Basketball: Long Beach Poly’s Comeback Falls Short Against Marina

Tyler Hendrickson

The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial Saturday’s CIF-SS Division 2A title game against Marina sure looked like a microcosm of Long Beach Poly’s season. The Jackrabbits got off to a slow and disjointed start, which left them with a 12-point deficit at halftime. But just as they did at the […]