Mike Guardabascio
An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 18 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous state and national honors 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 coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. Steve Marquez delivered the late game-winning goal for Long Beach Poly in a 3-2 victory on Wednesday night at Wilson. Poly and Wilson are now tied for second place in the […]

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Long Beach Poly hosts Leuzinger tonight at 7 p.m. at Cabrillo High, in a game that was originally scheduled to be the Jackrabbits’ first of the season, but had to be moved due to COVID-19 protocols. Tonight’s game sees a Poly team at 0-2 and in search of their first win, in a very different […]

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Watch Chase Utley’s Tear-Jerking Reunion

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Twelve years ago Long Beach Poly alum Chase Utley met a young cancer patient named Devin Smeltzer. Utley was a star with the Phillies at the time and Smeltzer was a 10 year-old who’d been undergoing treatment for bladder and prostate cancer for a year. “Baseball let me be a kid, that’s where my love […]