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.
Four Long Beach teams took the court on Tuesday in the first round of the CIF State basketball championships. Here’s a look at how each team fared, with links to our coverage from the games: Boys’ Basketball Division I St. Anthony 64, Torrey Pines 52 The Saints made the drive south and knocked off the […]
The562’s coverage of Millikan Athletics for the 2025-26 school year is sponsored by Brian Ramsey and TLD Law. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. It’d be hard to draw up a more dominant performance than Millikan’s win over Wilson on Friday night. The undefeated Rams hosted […]
Millikan football coach Romeo Pellum confirmed Thursday afternoon that he’d been reinstated as the Rams coach, following a paid leave during an investigation of the Millikan football program by the Long Beach Unified School District. “I’m back, I’m happy to be back, and we have three games to win so we can get to that […]
