JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
It was a hot day in the Long Beach Poly gym and the boys’ and girls’ freshman basketball teams were warming up and practicing free throws. Standing under one of the baskets in the Ron Palmer Pavilion was a familiar figure, one who was objectively overqualified to be serving as a rebounder for the soon-to-be-9th-grader […]
The562’s coverage of football in 2024-25 is sponsored by The Terry Donahue Memorial California Showcase. The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013.
