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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Flag Football: Compton’s Willard Scores Four Touchdowns In Win Vs Long Beach Poly

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The562’s football coverage for the 2025-26 school year is sponsored by Long Beach Poly alums Wendell “WoWo” Moe, Jr. & Tyson Ruffins. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly Athletics for the 2025-26 school year is sponsored by Former Jackrabbits Wendell “WoWo” Moe, Jr. & Tyson Ruffins. Before the start of the season Compton flag football coach Jason […]

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Girls’ Volleyball: Long Beach Poly Sweeps Lakewood For Moore League Crown

Mike Guardabascio

Long Beach Poly and Lakewood’s girls’ volleyball teams share one of the Moore League’s best rivalries–for two of the last three years they’ve shared the league crown as well. That changed on Tuesday afternoon as the Jackrabbits swept the Lancers to take sole possession of this year’s league championship with a 25-23, 25-16, 25-21 win. […]

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Long Beach High School Football CalPreps Rankings, Week One

Mike Guardabascio

With the new playoff format last year, the number question we got at every practice we went to was about playoff divisions. With that in mind we’re going to track where teams stand each week in the CalPreps rankings, which are used to determine the CIF Southern Section’s playoff divisions at the end of the […]