Mike Guardabascio
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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Long Beach Poly Soccer

PREVIEW: Long Beach Poly vs San Clemente, CIF Boys’ Soccer Championship

Mike Guardabascio

The562’s soccer coverage for the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Beach Futbol Club. 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 Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by JuJu Smith-Schuster and […]

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Athlete of the Week Compton Long Beach Poly St. Anthony

The562.org’s Athletes Of The Week

Mike Guardabascio

The top performers from the local high schools this week–congrats to the winners and thanks to Naples Rib Company for their sponsorship. Elijah Juarez, Long Beach Poly Football It was Elijah Juarez’s night to shine at Veterans Memorial Stadium last Friday as Long Beach Poly beat Millikan. Juarez was expected to get reps at fullback […]

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Compton Football

PREVIEW: Compton vs Compton Centennial 

Mike Guardabascio

Compton got the season off to a great start last week with a win over Dymally and they will be heavy favorites to go to 2-0 tonight as they host Compton Centennial at Compton College at 7 p.m. The two teams met last year in a 60-0 Compton High victory. Centennial started their year off […]