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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The562’s high school soccer coverage for the 2025-26 season is sponsored by Long Beach Poly soccer alum Kennedy Justin. The CIF-SS boys’ soccer brackets were released Saturday morning, with five Long Beach teams finding their placements across four different divisions. All games are scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 5pm, but are subject to time […]

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The562’s coverage of Aquatic sports in Long Beach is sponsored by the Aquatic Capital of America Foundation. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. There were about a dozen times the CIF Southern Section Division 1 boys’ water polo quarterfinal between Wilson and Huntington Beach could’ve gone either way. […]