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.
The Wilson baseball coaching staff all agreed that Friday’s CIF-SS Division 3 quarterfinal game between the Bruins and Bellflower was one of the weirdest they’d ever seen—but one of the sweetest, too. The three-headed Bruins monster of Ryan Pettway, Nick Endres and Aiden Alaniz combined to no-hit the Buccaneers in a 4-2 victory that sends […]
A first career goal, and a historic career goal, lifted Long Beach State women’s soccer over UC Irvine 2-1 on Sunday night at George Allen Field. Freshman Sierra Castles scored her first goal as a 49er in the 36th minute to give LBSU (9-5-2, 4-1-1) a lead, and senior Ashley Gonzales scored her school-record 34th […]
The Lakewood football program was coming off of consecutive three-win seasons when coach Scott Meyer took over this year, but he had clear goals when we interviewed him for the season preview. “It might take a little time, but this year we’d like to get this group in the playoffs and we feel like we […]