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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The trend lately among elite high school football recruits has been to collect scholarship offers, take as many recruiting visits as possible, gradually narrow down the top NCAA suitors in a series of social media posts, and then commit in a ceremony of some sort, usually televised. Long Beach Poly sophomore wide receiver Jason Robinson […]

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PHOTOS: Long Beach Poly vs Wilson Football

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

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Long Beach Poly, Wilson Earn CIF-SS Academic Championships

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Five Long Beach teams were honored at Angel Stadium last week for claiming 2024-25 CIF Southern Section Academic championships. Out of 556 total high schools in the CIF-SS, Long Beach Poly boys and girls cross country, Poly boys and girls wrestling, and Wilson girls water polo posted the highest cumulative unweighted team GPAs in the […]