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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Girls’ Basketball: Long Beach Poly Keeps Streak Alive With Big Win Over Lakewood

Tyler Hendrickson

The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial. The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. Three minutes into Friday’s Moore League girls’ basketball title showdown, Long Beach Poly head coach Carl Buggs implored his team to calm down. Both teams had gotten off to a shaky start, and […]

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Long Beach High School Football CalPreps Rankings, Week One

Mike Guardabascio

With the new playoff format last year, the number question we got at every practice we went to was about playoff divisions. With that in mind we’re going to track where teams stand each week in the CalPreps rankings, which are used to determine the CIF Southern Section’s playoff divisions at the end of the […]

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VIDEO: Long Beach Poly vs. Lakewood, Girls’ Basketball

Tyler Hendrickson

The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by JuJu Smith-Schuster and the JuJu Foundation. 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. The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013.