8/30/1942 – 2/4/2026 Influential Lakewood basketball coach Tim Sweeney passed suddenly last week at the age of 83, leaving behind a long legacy of coaching and mentorship. Sweeney was the boys’ basketball coach for the Lancers from 1980-1992, winning the school’s only CIF-SS championship in the sport in 1982. Lakewood’s gym is named in his […]
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Long Beach Poly’s boys’ basketball team was tired of sharing. The Jackrabbits came into Thursday night’s Moore League championship showdown at Lakewood having already clinched a portion of their 13th consecutive league title. But after splitting it with Compton last year and Millikan the year before that, the Jackrabbits wanted to make a statement and […]
