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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St. Anthony Finalizes 2019 Football Schedule

Mike Guardabascio

After an injury-undermined 2018, St. Anthony is hoping to bounce back with a great 2019 and has put together another challenging nonleague schedule. “We face four teams in our nonleague schedule that we lost to last season,” said Saints coach Mario Morales. “Our goal is to be one of the top teams in our league […]

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Football: St. Anthony Crushes La Salle for Homecoming Win

Tyler Hendrickson

The562’s coverage of football in 2023-24 is sponsored in part by the MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center Foundation and Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital Foundation. If St. Anthony could have scripted Friday night’s Homecoming Game against La Salle, there probably wouldn’t have been many edits. Just about everything went right for the home team as […]

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PREVIEW: Long Beach Poly at Wilson Football

Mike Guardabascio

The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. 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 […]