Mike Guardabascio
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.
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Long Beach State Volleyball

Long Beach State Volleyball Voted No. 1 Team in the Nation

Mike Guardabascio

The Long Beach State men’s volleyball team is off to an excellent 6-1 start, especially impressive given that they’re a young squad with no seniors on the roster, and that they have by far the hardest schedule in the country. While the coaching staff began the year saying they expected to get significantly better over […]

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COLUMN: Big West Robs Long Beach State of Conference Championship

Mike Guardabascio

The Long Beach State women’s basketball team won more conference games than any team in the Big West this year, with a final record of 17-3. In the last 33 years, only four other Big West teams have won 17 games. There’s one major difference between this year’s Beach team and those four other programs: […]

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Long Beach State Volleyball

Long Beach State Season Ends On Harward’s Historic Night

Mike Guardabascio

The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team was one point short of extending its rollercoaster season Wednesday evening in the first round of the Women’s National Invitational Volleyball Championship. After falling behind 2-0 in the match against Santa Clara, Long Beach battled back to force a fifth set, where they had match point up 14-13. […]