Mike Guardabascio
An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards 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 Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial. The562’s high school softball coverage is sponsored by Playmakers. Visit LetsBePlaymakers.org for more information on their adaptive sports programs. Long Beach Poly head coach Elizabeth Sanches had one word to describe her Jackrabbits throughout this season: dawgs. The program spent their Saturday traveling to South El Monte […]

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Mike Guardabascio In August of 2010, longtime Long Beach Poly football coach Raul Lara said he thought he had a special freshman player who’d come into his program. “His name is John Smith,” said Lara. “He’s gonna be special. He might be one of those really special kids to come out of here.” Any intelligent […]

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Long Beach Athletes Compete in CIF-SS Track & Field Prelims

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The562’s coverage of track and field is sponsored by Bryson Financial  A huge contingent of Long Beach athletes representing several schools will compete at today’s CIF-SS Track & Field prelims, trying to make next weekend’s CIF-SS Finals. The city has 93 entries in today’s prelims–we’ll update you tonight on who got through. Long Beach Poly (Division 1: […]