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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It’s the end of practice before Long Beach Poly girls’ basketball’s biggest week of the Moore League season, with games looming against Lakewood, Wilson, and Millikan. The Jackrabbits haven’t lost a league game in 12 years, and longtime head coach Carl Buggs is determined to keep it that way. He calls his team together, with […]
