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.
The562’s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2023-24 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl. The Long Beach State men’s volleyball team started a three day stretch of back-to-back games with a win over No. 8 Grand Canyon in the Walter Pyramid, handling the Lopes via sweep, 25-18, 27-25, 25-18. The Beach will return to […]
The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. We’ve got a great photo gallery of Long Beach Poly’s flag football win over Wilson from student photographer Zadie Kuykendall. The Jackrabbits won 50-0 behind four passing touchdowns from Aaya McLyn […]
Long Beach State men’s basketball got a much needed confidence boost with a 93-62 victory over Fresno Pacific at Walter Pyramid on Friday night. LBSU (2-3) set season highs in points scored, rebounds, assists and field goal percentage in the victory over Division II Fresno Pacific (0-5). “We’ve been working on not running so many […]