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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In a battle all the way through the final seconds, St Anthony defeated Bishop Montgomery 52-47 on Wednesday night in a huge Del Rey League matchup. From the start of the game both teams were playing very physical with each other and assuring themselves that nothing would be easy in this matchup. “We knew it […]
It’s been a long road for Dennis Brown. It began in Long Beach, where he starred on the gridiron for Jordan High; it wound through the San Francisco and the NFL’s Super Bowl, where he took home a ring with the 49ers; it took him to rock bottom in Seattle, where he struggled with alcoholism; […]