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.
The562’s cross country and track & field coverage is sponsored by an anonymous donation, in appreciation of Coach Ron Allice. The weather cooperated at this year’s Signal Hill meet, but the course itself left something to be desired from the participants. Times were down and slips and slides were up on Tuesday, but the varsity […]
For years Moore League softball was one of the most predictable local sports. Lakewood was the top team with elite talent competing in the upper divisions while Millikan, Wilson and Long Beach Poly took turns leading the chase pack behind the Lancers. However, things have been shifting locally. This year it’s the Rams who are […]
The Jackrabbits are coming off their 14th consecutive Moore League championship, but Poly is putting a different kind of roster on the floor than they have in a few decades. The Jackrabbits have only four players returning who had significant varsity experience last year, and will rely on young or inexperienced players to fill in […]
