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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The562’s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2022-23 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl. The Long Beach State women’s basketball team survived a scare from No. 10-seed UC Riverside in the opening round of the Big West Tournament in Henderson, Nevada Wednesday evening. the Beach trailed 11 points in the fourth quarter but came […]