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.
The562’s coverage of football in 2023-24 is sponsored in part by the MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center Foundation and Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital Foundation
The562’s coverage of Aquatic sports in Long Beach is sponsored by the Aquatic Capital of America Foundation. There have been common themes connecting Long Beach high school boys’ water polo teams in recent years. The highs of the historic CIF Southern Section playoff runs in 2021 were followed by key coaching changes around the Moore League […]