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.
After 11 months of waiting for competitive high school sports to return, this might be the most highly-anticipated cross country season ever. The traditional fall sport has been bumped into the spring, but players and coaches alike are thrilled for the opportunity to compete again, albeit under very different circumstances. Rather than the traditional cluster […]
Long Beach youth soccer will be forever changed after the U.S. Soccer Federation terminated its nationwide developmental academy league this month because of the COVID-19 pandemic financial impact. “We know that suddenly discontinuing a program that has been with U.S. Soccer for many years is shocking, but these unprecedented times required taking action now,” the […]
October is here, meaning the Major League Baseball Playoffs are in full swing. This year’s expanded postseason format features a handful of Long Beach natives seeking World Series glory. In this past weekend’s Wild Card round, the Seattle Mariners finally ended their 21-year postseason drought. With help from Lakewood’s J.P. Crawford, the M’s won their […]
